Table of Contents: October 2009

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Cover art: Valero Doval, "Drawers," 2008.

AUTHOR TITLE
W. S. Di Piero New Endymion
Renovations
The Ash Bringer
A. V. Christie The Hen Swallows a Worm or Slug
Atmosphere
Foreword
Caleb Klaces Painting over Aya Sofia
Language is her caravan
Emily Fragos The Cellar
Kevin Young The Mission
Marianne Boruch On rain washed paper dried, ink
Some dreamily smoke cigarettes, some track
Terese Svoboda Glass of Water Encounter
Kevin Prufer In a Beautiful Country
Mary Jo Bang L Equals Look
Dean Young Human Lot
To Those of You Alive in the Future
Howard Altmann Fragments
William Hathaway Today
Betrayal
Craig Arnold Meditation on a Grapefruit
A.E. Stallings Blackbird Etude
COMMENT
Christian Wiman To Let You Pass
Remembering Craig Arnold.
Fernando Pessoa From a Notebook that Never Was
The ridiculous, work, and dedication.
Daisy Fried An Omnivorous Sign
The many modes of Michael Hofmann.
Nate Klug There Is No Suitable Simile
History's strange products in the work of Robyn Schiff and Robert VanderMolen.
Jason Guriel New-fangled, Old-fangled
The rickety and the radical.
Dana Levin From Thought to Sneakered Feet
The weirdly elegaic in Michael Dickman's The End of the West.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Anthony H. Horan, MD Letter to the Editor
Mary Ann Sullivan Letter to the Editor
Kenneth Goldsmith Kenneth Goldsmith Responds
K. Marrott Letter to the Editor
Mel Nichols Mel Nicols Responds
Susan Barbour Letter to the Editor
Christopher Conlon Letter to the Editor
Alice Mattison Letter to the Editor