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The Spring 2005 issue showcases paintings by Neil Welliver, essays by Joan Connor and Mike Barrett, fiction by Albert Wachtel, Erin Brooks Worley, and Sue Repko, and poems by Rhoda Janzen, Bob Hicok, and Pattiann Rogers, as well as outstanding work by several others.

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Contents
Volume 18, Number 1 / Spring 2005

ESSAYS AND ESSAY-REVIEWS
    Peter Stitt, Editor’s Pages: “The Kingdom of Maroni, Part X,” 5
    Joan Connor, “The World before Mirrors,” 39
    Molly Hutton, “The Nature Studies of Neil Welliver,” 78
    Benjamin Hedin, “A History That Never Happened: Philip Roth’s The Plot
        Against America
” (review of The Plot Against America, by Philip Roth), 93
    Mike Barrett, “An Old West Diptych,” 636

FICTION
    Albert Wachtel, “Goddess,” 19
    Erin Brooks Worley, “Grove,” 65
    Sue Repko, “Deliverance,” 110
    Cortright McMeel, “Mahler’s Ninth,” 145

POETRY
    Rhoda Janzen, “Bad Breath,” “Pinched Nerve,” “Plantar’s Wart,”
        “Varicose Vein,” and “Winter Skin,” 32
    Sherod Santos, A Selection of Lyrics from Lyre, Lyre, Lyre: Poems from the
        Greek Anthology
, 55
    Bob Hicok, “Grounded,” “My career as a director,” and “Slow going,” 71
    Pattiann Rogers, “A Philosopher of Verbs and Their Godliness Contemplates
        First Causes ”
and “Citizens in the Dominion of Heaven,” 89
    Billy Collins, “Time” and “Special Glasses,” 107
    Dick Allen, “B&B,” “Sea,” and “Whistling in the Dark,” 123
    Paula Closson Buck, “Beetle,” “The Moment: Stone Fish,” “Night in Venice:         Summer,” and “November Consolation,” 140

GRAPHICS
    Neil Welliver, Paintings, 81