Summer 2006 Issue
270 To Our Readers
ESSAYS
271 Anne Goldman Stargazing in the Atomic Age
318 Paul Zimmer Hyacinthe and the Bear
331 Jennifer Culkin Ichthyosis
DRAMA
345 David Wagoner First Class
FICTION
301 Anna Solomon Lotto
377 George Singleton Which Rocks We Choose
394 Julia Elliott The Whipping
POETRY
292 David Clewell Albert Einstein Held Me in His Arms
294 Lance Larsen Aperture
296 Andrea Holander Budy Woman in the Painting; Beauty Parlor; and Spark
314 Richard Jackson Write Your Name in the Space Provided
316 Pattiann Rogers Genesis: Primeval Rivers and Forests
326 Albert Goldbarth Too Here; Dignity; and Greener
334 Robert Dana Looking for Shark's Teeth
392 Chris Forhan In a Body
407 Gary Gildner The Summer Afternoon
409 Michael Waters The Bells
410 Rebecca Morgan Frank Sonnet for the Sin of Foolishness
ART
336 Maggie Taylor Subject to Change
REVIEWS
411 Benjamin Hedin The Religion of Now
(on Kathleen Rooney’s Reading with Oprah: The Book Club that Changed America; Stewart Justman’s Fool’s Paradise: The Unreal World of Pop Psychology; David Chidester’s Authentic Fakes: Religion and American Popular Culture; Michael Kimmel- man’s The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa; and The Aesthetics of Everyday Life, edited by Andrew Light and Jonathan M. Swift)
423 Jeff Gundy Where Do We Discover What
We Believe?
(on C. D. Wright’s Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil; Ann Lauterbach’s The Night Sky: Writings on the Poetics of Experience; Richard Tillinghast’s Poetry and What Is Real; Peter Middleton’s Distant Reading: Performance, Readership, and Consumption in Contemporary Poetry; and Robert Baker’s The Extravagant: Crossings of Modern Poetry and Modern Philosophy)
434 Lucy Ferriss Being Real in Fiction
(on Brock Clarke’s Carrying the Torch; Gary Gildner’s Somewhere Geese Are Flying: New and Selected Stories; Richard Cortez Day’s Something for the Journey; and D. B. Wells’s Your Lolita)
438 Kevin Clark on Break, Blow, Burn by Camille Paglia
442 Douglas Carlson on The Dawn Collector: On My Way to the Natural World by Reg Saner
445 Robert Schnall on Collected Poems 1943–2004 by Richard Wilbur
448 Book Briefs by Patrick Madden, Lynnell Edwards, Danielle Pafunda, Deborah Bogen, and Craig Morgan Teicher
455 CONTRIBUTORS