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Bert O. States
Michael Shumate
Ann Keniston
Nancy Willard
Christy J. Zink
Susan Steinberg
Tsivia Arne Cohen
Don Lee
Karen Sagstetter
Carol Frost
Natasha Sajé
Rhoda Janzen
John Latta
Daniel Hoffman
Christina Davis
Oliver Rice
Ron de Maris
Dara Wier
Brendan Galvin
Marilyn Nelson
Dabney Stuart
Charlie Smith
Doug Safranek







The Spring 2000 issue features paintings by Helen Berggruen, essays by Bert O. States and Ann Keniston, stories by Susan Steinberg and Don Lee, and poems by Carol Frost, John Latta, Ron de Maris, Marilyn Nelson, and Dara Wier, as well as work by many others.

To order a copy of the Spring 2000 issue today, go to the Featured Back Issue page, fill out the form, and in the Notes box, specify that you wish to receive issue 13.1.


Contents
Volume 13, Number 1 / Spring 2000

ESSAYS AND ESSAY-REVIEWS
    Peter Stitt, “Where Does Love Go?” Editor’s Pages, 7
   Bert O. States, “On Being Breathless,” 17
    Michael Shumate, “Obstinate Questions,” 39
    Ann Keniston, “Barrenness: An Argument,” 75
    Nancy Willard, “From the Ancestors,” 123
    Christy J. Zink, “Life in Aftermath: The American Short Story Today”
        (review of A Gram of Mars, by Becky Hagenston; Friendly Fire, by Kathryn         Chetkovich; The Daiquiri Girls, by Toni Graham; The Angel of the Garden,
        by Scott Ely; and The Long and Short of It, by Pamela Painter), 138

FICTION
    Susan Steinberg, “Isla,” 29
    Tsivia Arne Cohen, “Audience,” 59
    Don Lee, “The Price of Eggs in China,” 97
    Karen Sagstetter, “School Scene,” 129

POETRY
    Carol Frost, “Youthful Venus”  and “Alone, ” 27
    Natasha Sajé, “White” and “Beyond Good and Evil,” 36
    Rhoda Janzen, “The Siege,” 54
    John Latta, “Reading Aristotle” and “At the Nether End of the
        Fundament,” 56
    Daniel Hoffman, “Treasure” and “Going,” 71
    Christina Davis, “Concord” and “Joy Street,” 73
    Oliver Rice, “In Asheville, in Chapel Hill” and “Nomads,” 85
    Ron de Maris, “What Can You Say?” and “Where the Wind Went,” 87
    Dara Wier, “Thatched,” 117
    Brendan Galvin, “Intractable Things” and “The Vegetable,” 118
    Marilyn Nelson, “Arachis Hypogea,” 122
    Dabney Stuart, “High Desert Snow” and “The Man Who Loved
        Cézanne,” 134
    Charlie Smith, “History,” 158

GRAPHICS
    Doug Safranek, Paintings, 89