Fall 2007 Issue
442 To Our Readers
ESSAYS
444 Laura Sewell Matter Pursuing the Great Bad Novelist
480 Barbara C. Mallonee Walking Distance
604 Jeremy Collins Shadow Boxing
DRAMA
536 David Wagoner Mr. Thoreau Tonight
FICTION
462 Jack Driscoll Prowlers
587 Janisse Ray Pilgrimage
POETRY
460 Gary Gildner Calling from the Scaffold
476 Grace Danborn Credo
477 Kevin Clark The Bedspread at Echo Lake and
“Le Secret”
495 Bruce Cohen The New World Deli
497 Linda Pastan In an Unaddressed Envelope
533 Kevin Prufer The Twentieth Century
534 Robert Cording Last Things
572 Alice Friman Vinculum
574 Margaret Gibson Second Nature
602 Sharon Dolin The Unwritten Poem
ART
498 Thorne Anderson and Kael Alford Eye Level in Iraq
(with introductory essays by the photographers)
REVIEWS
623 Gerald Weales American Theater Watch, 2006–2007
633 Judith Kitchen Raindrops on Roses . . .
(on Albert Goldbarth’s The Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems, 1972–2007; Carl Phillips’ Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems, 1986–2006; Robert Wrigley’s Earthly Meditations: New and Selected Poems; Rebecca McClanahan’s Deep Light: New and Selected Poems, 1987–2007; Bruce Beasley’s The Corpse Flower: New and Selected Poems; Paul Zimmer’s Crossing to Sunlight Revisited: New and Selected Poems; and John Engels’ Recounting the Seasons: Poems, 1958–2005)
657 Greg Johnson The Best and the Briefest
(on The O. Henry Prize Stories 2007: The Best Stories of the Year, edited by Laura Furman; New Stories from the South: 2006—The Year’s Best, edited by Allan Gurganus; Best New American Voices 2007: Fresh Fiction from the Top Writing Programs, edited by Sue Miller; Flash Fiction Forward: 80 Very Short Stories, edited by James Thomas and Robert Shapard; and New Sudden Fiction: Short-Short Stories from America and Beyond, edited by Robert Shapard and James Thomas)
664 CONTRIBUTORS