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D. R. Cruikshank
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Diane Comer
Kristin Bair
Charles Yu
Akshay Ahuja
James Magruder
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Dean Young
Carol Frost
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Alan Michael Parker
Stefi Weisburd
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Gary Fincke
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The Summer 2004 issue showcases paintings by Frederick Brosen, essays by Norma Marder and James McKean, fiction by Charles Yu, Akshay Ahuja, and Marlene Roberts, and poems by Dean Young, Carol Frost, Judith Vollmer, as well as outstanding work by several others.

To order a copy of the Spring 2004 issue today, go to the Featured Back Issue page, fill out the form, and in the Notes box, specify that you wish to receive issue 17.2.


Contents
Volume 17, Number 2 / Summer 2004

ESSAYS AND ESSAY-REVIEWS
    D. R. Cruikshank, “The Toad Picture,” 187
    Elizabeth Weld, “Your Suitcase Is Heavy,” 219
    Norma Marder, “A Body of Secrets,” 235
    Molly Hutton, “The Watercolors of Frederick Brosen,” 246
    James McKean, “Learning to Fight,” 285
    Diane Comer, “Meditation in I,” 303
    Kristin Bair, “The Bear,” 322

FICTION
    Charles Yu, “The Man Who Became Himself,” 173
    Akshay Ahuja, “Tenanting,” 201
    James Magruder, “You’ve Really Learned How,” 263
    Marlene Roberts, “The Square Root of Reason,” 309

POETRY
    Judith Vollmer, “In Praise of Camus at the End of His Century” and
        “Talking with My Nephews,” 184
    Mark Kraushaar, “We Regret to Inform,” “This Is What Happened,”
        and “Everything,” 196
    Scott Brennan, “Contentment” and “Italian,” 216
    Dean Young, “Venus,” “Ephemeroptera,” and “Ghost Grease,” 229
    Carol Frost, “Drowned” and “Man So Bronzed,” 244
    Alice Friman, “Waiting,” “The Iron Cross,” “The Color of Ineffable,”
        “The Black Tupelo,” and “The Bad Tooth,” 257
    Brian Brodeur, “Reunion,” “Blue Collar,” and “The Brunch,” 282
    Alan Michael Parker, “Dog Drinking from the Bowl,” “The Horses
        at the Edge of the Field,” and “Oh, What a Red Sweater,” 297
    Stefi Weisburd, “Five Kinds of Weather Roll across Texas,” 307
    Rebecca Givens, “One Faculty” and “Blessing,” 320
    Gary Fincke, “The 1918 House” 326
    Oliver Rice, “Timely Enumerations Concerning Sri Lanka” and
        “Whom No Priest Can Absolve,” 328

GRAPHICS
    Frederick Bosen, Paintings, 249