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M. Garrett Bauman
Steve Rhodes
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Charles Simic
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Vivé Griffith
Dustin Beall Smith
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Donna George Storey
Charles Haverty
Jenn Scott
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Brent Pallas
Austin Hummell
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Gerry LaFemina
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Chard DeNiord
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Margaret Gibson
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Mark Halliday
Frank Paino
Christopher Howell
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The Spring 2004 issue showcases paintings by Kent Bellows, essays by Charles Simic and Vivé Griffith, fiction by Charles Haverty, D. Ellis Dickerson, and Arthur Steven Goldman, and poems by Brent Pallas, Linda Pastan, R. T. Smith, as well as outstanding work by several others.

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Contents
Volume 17, Number 1 / Spring 2004

ESSAYS AND ESSAY-REVIEWS
    M. Garrett Bauman, “Stepping into the Air,” 21
    Steve Rhodes, “Dancing Lessons,” 49
    Molly Hutton, “(Self) Portraiture: The Art of Kent Bellows,” 78
    Charles Simic, “Reading about Utopia in New York City,” 89
    Eric Trethewey, “Just Another Friday,” 99
    Vivé Griffith, “Timeshare,” 123
    Dustin Beall Smith, “The Blair Witch Project Revisited,” 135
    Carol Ann Fitzgerald, “Poppy Love: Fathers Find Salvation in Two New
        Novels” (review of Genesis, by Jim Crace; and Saul and Patsy, by
        Charles Baxter), 151

FICTION
    Donna George Storey, “Courtesan with a Lover,” 5
    Charles Haverty, “Fontanel,” 33
    Jenn Scott, “The Art of Romance,” 53
    D. Ellis Dickerson, “Mom, Having Died,” 65
    Arthur Steven Goldman, “David and Alice: Seventeen Lines about the
        End of the World,” 109

POETRY
    Lillias Bever, “Cesarean” and “Tools,” 17
    Brent Pallas, “Beetlemania” and “The Orange,” 29
    Austin Hummell, “El Niño” and “Helen’s Cordial,” 31
    Aaron Bannister, “Nastogio degli Onesti” and “Ruminations on
        the Soul,” 46
    Gerry LaFemina, “Contact Points,” 52
    Sarah Gorham, “Accommodation” and “Our House,” 63
    Chard DeNiord, “In the Eternity That Was a Day” and “Raiding
        the Bees,” 76
    R. T. Smith, “Sump” and “Hohner,” 96
    Linda Pastan, “Don’t Think of This” and “Firing the Muse,” 107
    Margaret Gibson, “The Waiting (I)” and “The Waiting (II),” 121
    Deborah Burnham, “Le Grande Ennui: Cezanne’s ‘Leda with Swan’ ” and         “Behind the Lines: Gologory, Poland, 1915,” 132
    Gary Fincke, “The Urban Legend of Flight,” 134
    Mark Halliday, “Not Exactly for Talia,” “Emotional and Thematic Index,”
        and “Dorie Off to Atlanta,” 144
    Frank Paino, “The Lily of Ecuador,” 148
    Christopher Howell, “King’s Ex,” “Home Stretch,” and “Dinner Out,” 158

GRAPHICS
    Kent Bellows, Paintings, 81