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The Summer 2000 issue features paintings by Helen Berggruen, essays by Gary Amdahl and Paul Zimmer, stories by Shimon Tanaka, Nicholas Montemarano, and Dan Chaon, and poems by Stanley Plumly, Marvin Bell, Caroline Finkelstein, and Pattiann Rogers, as well as work by many esteemed others.

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Contents
Volume 13, Number 2 / Summer 2000

ESSAYS AND ESSAY-REVIEWS
    Gary Amdahl, “Narrow Road to the Deep North,” 173
    Diane Mehta, “‘Passionate and Structured Ignorance’: The Poetry of Bill         Matthews,” 219
    Paul Zimmer, “Young Jazz,” 251
    Mary Ann McGivern, “Obersving in Northern Ireland,” 294
    Floyd Collins, “Body and Soul: Three Visionary Poets” (review of Passing
        through Customs: New and Selected Poems,
by Gibbons Ruark; Cenotaph, by
        Eric Pankey; and The Red Leaves, by David St. John), 314

FICTION
    Georgia English, “What’s the Right Word for Love?” 192
    Shimon Tanaka, “Video Ame,” 201
    Nicholas Montemarano, “Eventually You’ll Fell Like This,” 241
    Dan Chaon, “Big Me,” 271

POETRY
    Caroline Finkelstein, “I Ate Fish Soup,” “Blue Couldn’t Burn Here,” and
        “Back Road to Siena,” 186
    Marvin Bell, “Sounds of the Resurrected Dead Man’s Footsteps, #s 31, 43,
        53, and 56,” 195
    Stanley Plumly, “Harry Sullenberger,” 249
    David Baker, “Dejection,” “Cold Water,” and “Postmodernism,” 266
    Dorothea Tanning, “Landscape with Postmark,” “Aspects of Ice (Detail),”
        and “Il A Trouvé la Mort,” 288
    Pattiann Rogers, “Milennium Map of the Universe” and “Data from This
        Line of Light Laboratory,” 310
    Nance Van Winckel, “Getting In” and “Happier Horses,” 330

GRAPHICS
    Helen Berggruen, Paintings, 233