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Michael Pressler
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Edward Nobles
William Logan
John Diamond-Nigh
Susan Ludvigson
Timothy Liu
Szabolcs Várady
Jon Imber





The Autumn 2002 issue showcases paintings by Jon Imber, essays by Michael Pressler and Lee Zacharias, stories by Christopher Brookhouse and Robert Hildt, and poems by Bruce Beasley, Paula Closson Buck, and Susan Ludvigson, as well as outstanding work by many others.

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Contents
Volume 15, Number 3 / Autumn 2002

ESSAYS AND ESSAY-REVIEWS
    Peter Stitt, “The Kingdom of Maroni, Part IV,” Editor’s Pages, 357
    Michael Pressler, “The Making of Above and Beyond,” 391
    Lee Zacharias, “The Village Idiot,” 421
    Floyd Collins, “Engagements with History,” (review of Changeable Thunder, by         David Baker; and The Mercy Seat: Collected & New Poems, 1967-2001, by
        Norman Dubie), 497

FICTION
    Christopher Brookhouse, “Naked,” 371
    Robert Hildt, “Orbit,” 441
    T. M. McNally, “Given,” 453
    Jesse Upton, “China Flats,” 477

POETRY
    Harriet J. Melrose, “Twin Bridges” and “Salute to Spring,” 385
    Bruce Beasley, “And Go into the Street Which Is Called Straight,” 388
    Alexandria Peary, “The Architecture of a Love Poem,” “Push-Button
         Landscape,” and “Handwriting in the Sky,” 413
    Dorothea Tanning, “Heaven on Earth” and “Rain of Blood,
        Aix-en-Provence,”
416
    Carol Ann Davis, “In the Room,” 420
    Paula Closson Buck, “Theory of an Impersonal God” and “If Silence Is Any         Indication,” 430
    Michael Waters, “Commerce,” 446
    Dick Allen, “‘An Entire Summer Filled with Inexplicably Skies’” and
        “Dada,”448
    Maureen Clark, “Premature Autopsy,” 452
    Christopher Matthews, “Detours,” 471
    Christopher Howell, “To Birdy, for the Unknown Man” and “You Can Do         Anything with a Swan,” 474
    Edward Nobles, “The Secret Life,” 476
    William Logan, “In the Swamp” and “Childhood,” 492
    John Diamond-Nigh, “The Plastic Chandelier,” “Venice,” and “Bronzino’s         Allegory, c. 1546,” 494
    Susan Ludvigson, “Bin Laden in South Carolina” and “The Family of Man,”
        514
    Timothy Liu, “Bisexuality,” 519
    Szabolcs Várady (translated by Daniel Hoffman and Miklós Vajda), “In
         Memory of Gyorgy Petri,” “In a Nutshell,” and “The Proceeds of Our
         Years,” 520

GRAPHICS
    Jon Imber, Paintings, 433