Spring 2006 Issue
ESSAY
61 Jed Rasula Jazzbandism
INTERVIEW
13 Christian Martin On Resistance: An Interview with Barry Lopez
FICTION
36 John Bensko The Painted Snake
130 Heidi Shayla Himmelen
158 Rachel Pastan Back across the Light Years
184 Daniel Wallace A Terrible Thing
POETRY
10 Adrian Blevins Now There's a River
11 Arthur Sze In the Rose Light and The Gift
31 Wyatt Prunty Stazione Centrale
33 David Wojahn Scribal: My Mother in the Voting Booth
51 Charles Harper Webb Flashlight
53 Sydney Lea Manure: Some Remarks on Older Age and Recovery
57 John Hollander Ghosts and First Music Lesson
125 David Kirby Hey, Gerald
153 Philip Levine Innocence and Library Days
157 Linda Pastan Rereading Frost
179 Eric Pankey I Forgot What I Was Going to Say
180 Barbara Ras What It Was Like and Big Bull and Little Dog
195 Eleanor Stanford Pisgah
ART
144 Sarah McEneaney Recent History
REVIEWS
196 Judith Kitchen Grouching toward Bethlehem: A Look at First Books
(on Christian Hawkey's The Book of Funnels; Elizabeth Edwards' The Chronic Liar Buys a Canary; Gina Franco's The Keepsake Storm; John Brehm's Sea of Faith; Amy Fleury's Beautiful Trouble; and Kevin Goodan's In the Ghost-House Acquainted)
216 Kathleen Snodgrass On the Edge
(on Jess Row's The Train to Lo Wu; Lisa Glatt's The Apple's Bruise; Gina Ochsner's People I Wanted to Be; Ander Monson's Other Electricities; and Christopher Coake's We're in Trouble)
229 Andrea Hollander Budy A Bright, Discerning Light
(on Sandra Scofield's Occasions of Sin; Natalia Rachel Singer's Scraping by in the Big Eighties; Heidi Hart's Grace Notes: The Waking of a Woman's Voice; Jeffe Kennedy's Wyoming Trucks, True Love, and the Weather Channel: A Woman's Adventure; and Patricia Foster's Just beneath My Skin: Autobigraphy and Self-Discovery)
243 Jeff Gundy Form and Range
(on William Baer's Fourteen on Form: Conversations with Poets; and Tod Marshall's Range of the Possible: Conversations with Contemporary Poets)
248 Gerald Weales on Drawn to Extremes: The Use and Abuse of Editorial Cartoons by Chris Lamb
251 Reg Saner on Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild by Ellen Meloy
255 Book Briefs by Claire Keyes and Siân Griffiths
258 CONTRIBUTORS