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Cecelia Burokas
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Kellie Wells
Nadia Kalman
R. J. Curtis
William Logan
Robert Wrigley
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David Petruzelli
Maurya Simon
Elton Glaser
Eamon Grennan
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David Dewey







The Winter 2000 issue features paintings by David Dewey, essays by Cecelia Burokas and Tom Hunt, stories by Nick Halpern, Kellie Wells, and R. J. Curtis, and poems by Robert Wrigley, Joyce Carol Oates, Eamon Grennan, and Dean Young.

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Contents
Volume 13, Number 4 / Winter 2000

ESSAYS AND ESSAY-REVIEWS
    Peter Stitt, “Light Years,” Editor’s Pages, 511
   Cecelia Burokas, “Working in the Dark,” 539
    Elaine Edelman, “‘Were We All Brave, but at Different Times?’:
        Remembering Muriel Rukeyser,” 575
    Tom Hunt, “Cliffs of Despair,” 593
    Floyd Collins, “The Power of Language” (review of Parthenopi: New and
        Selected Poems,
by Michael Waters; The Falling Hour, by David Wojahn;
        and Reign of Snakes, by Robert Wrigley), 653

FICTION
    Nick Halpern, “The Kanga King,” 521
    Chris Benvenuto, “Union Square,” 559
    Kellie Wells, “Rachel in the Mirror,” 617
    Nadia Kalman, “Those Girls Who Dance around Maypoles,” 133
    R. J. Curtis, “Nurse,” 646

POETRY
    William Logan, “Venice,” “Byzantium,” and “Wren,” 536
    Robert Wrigley, “Explanatory” and “Talisman,” 552
    Christopher Howell, “Bird Man Stranded” and “Zeno,” 555
    Elizabeth Kirschner, “Old Enough to Stop Bearing Children,” 558
    William Trowbridge, “Class of ’59” and “Obedience,” 572
    William Hathaway, “Aiutami,” 611
    Joyce Carol Oates, “My Father’s Violin,” 630
    David Petruzelli, “Father Listens to the Artists,” 632
    Maurya Simon, “The Parable of the Exclamation Point,” 644
    Elton Glaser, “Curious about You, Baby,” 649
    Eamon Grennan, “Agnostic Smoke” and “Windowgrave,” 651
    Richard Tillinghast, “Incident” and “Solstice,” 671
    Dean Young, “My Fall Teaching Schedule,” 673

GRAPHICS
    David Dewey, Paintings, 585