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The Spring 2001 issue showcases paintings by Robert Cottingham, essays by Paul Zimmer and Dorothy Barresi, stories by Christopher Chambers, Terry Bain, and Lee Strickland, and poems by Charles Simic, Margaret Gibson, Michael Teig, and Michelle Boisseau.

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Contents
Volume 14, Number 1 / Spring 2001

ESSAYS AND ESSAY-REVIEWS
    Peter Stitt, “A Boy, A Girl, Then and Now,” Editor’s Pages, 7
   Paul Zimmer, “Strangers in Friendly Places,” 17
    Howard Luxenberg, “Frumah Packard,” 57
    Robert Rawdon Wilson, “Connubial Monsters,” 73
    Gerald Weales, “Happy Birthday: You Don’t Look a Day over 125,” 105
    Winston Fuller, “The Riddle,” 131
    Philip Terman, “The Abrupt Edge: The Poetry of Stanley Plumly,” 143
    Dorothy Barresi, “The Poetry of Ghosts and Monsters” (review of Dark
        Summer,
by Molly Bendall; To Get Here, by Wendy Mnookin; and Curios,
        by Judith Taylor), 157

FICTION
    Christopher Chambers, “Carl, Under His Car,” 39
    Terry Bain, “Don’t Move Me,” 65
    Lee Strickland, “Paper Trail,” 89
    Greg Oaks, “Below the Sick Water,” 121

POETRY
    Charles Simic, “Battling Grays,” “Hitchhikers,” “Tree of Subtleties,” and
        “The Inexplicable,” 35
    Margaret Gibson, “House of Stone and Song” and “Strange Altars,” 50
    Michael Teig, “Since We’ve Hardly Met, All This Waving Is a Poor
        Goodbye,” “Directory of Obsolete Securities,” and “Second Act,” 62
    Beth Simon, “You Come to Us,” “Contain Everything ,” and “Limited Time         Offer,” 71
    Martha Zweig, “Migraine,” 80
    Anthony Deaton, “The Refusal” and “Half the Conversation,” 102
    Michelle Boisseau, “Appeal” and “Done,” 116
    Wayne Miller, “Ice Storm,” 120
    Jon Loomis, “Skinny-Dipping, Midsummer” and “You Blow Out the
        Candles,” 128
    Michael Van Walleghen, “Fidelity,” 140
    Eric Pankey, “Improvisation,” 142
    Henry Hart, “The Sublime” and “The Volcano,” 155
    Joanna Smith Rakoff, “Letter from Iona,” and “The Futurist Moment,” 167

GRAPHICS
    Robert Cottingham, Paintings, 81