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The Winter 2004 issue showcases paintings by Mark Workman, essays by Naeem Murr and Donald Hall, fiction by Bret Lott, Scott Schrader, and Christopher Torockio, and poems by Caroline Finkelstein, Max Garland, and Hailey Leithauser, as well as outstanding work by several others.

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Contents
Volume 17, Number 4 / Winter 2004

ESSAYS AND ESSAY-REVIEWS
    Peter Stitt, Editor’s Pages: “The Kingdom of Maroni, Part IX,” 509
    Naeem Murr, “Don Nelson Sings Elvis,” 519
    Sally Drumm, “Letting Go,” 547
    Donald Hall, “Coming and Going,” 562
    Molly Hutton, “Near and Distant: Mark Workman’s Luminist Vision,” 574
    William R. Stimson, “The Ash Girl,” 596
    Floyd Collins, “Makers and the Making” (review of Complaint in the Garden, by         Randall Mann; Ecstatic in the Poison, by Andrew Hudgins; and Lives of the
        Animals
, by Robert Wrigley), 636

FICTION
    Christopher Torockio, “Beach Ball,” 527
    Scott Schrader, “The Marine Museum,” 585
    Bret Lott, from Ancient Highway, 608

POETRY
    Caroline Finkelstein, “Maidenhair,” “October Medium,” and “November         Difficulty,” 524
    Joyce Peseroff, “Belated Birthday Greetings,” 546
    Max Garland, “An Exercise in Waking Up on Davenport Street” and
        “Day So Bright,” 560
    James Grinwis, “Guilt” and “On Closer Inspection,” 571
    Harry Humes, “Walking out of the River,” 573
    Hailey Leithauser, “The Suicide Plots to Return and Raise Hullabaloo,”
        “Lust Song,” “Miracles,” and “Orgasm,” 592
    Sean Nevin, “Solomon’s Palimpsest,” 602
    Ryan Flaherty, “Exertia of the Annulled,” 630
    Mark Kraushaar, “Tonight” and “Falling Brick Kills Local Man,” 632
    Vern Rutsala, “Paranoia: After Ancreon” and “Curse: After Archilochus,”
        651

GRAPHICS
    Mark Workman, Paintings, 577