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The Winter 2002 issue showcases paintings by Bascove, essays by Tom Elliot and Christopher Bakken, a talk given by Rober Bly about James Wright as a letter writer, fiction by Howard Luxenberg, Becky Hagenston, and Wendy Wunder, and poems by Debora Greger, Roy Jacobstein, and William Hathaway, as well as outstanding work by several others.

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Contents
Volume 15, Number 4 / Autumn 2002

ESSAYS AND ESSAY-REVIEWS
    Robert Bly, “A Talk about James Wright as a Letter Writer,” 533
    Tom Elliot, “Halloween at the Centre of Time and Space,” 601
    Christopher Bakken, “Derek Mahon and the Vocational Muse,” (review of         Collected Poems, by Derek Mahon), 601
    Nicole Moss, “William,” 675

FICTION
    Howard Luxenberg, “Tag Sale,” 555
    Becky Hagenston, “Trafalgar,” 571
    Elizabeth Lorenz, “Tinkering with What’s Left,” 623
    Jim Brotherton, “Heat Death,” 662
    Wendy Wunder, “Inertia,” 665

POETRY
    Debora Greger, “A Poet Dying Young” and “Southern Altarpiece,” 551
    Paula McLain, “Enough with the Angels,” “Milk,” and “New Math,” 568
    Roy Jacobstein, “Working Out” and “Embarkation,” 591
    William Hathaway, “He Heaps Me!,” “Death in the Age of the Zoloft
        Eaters,” and “Promeneur Solitaire,” 614
    Jeanne Murray Walker, “Philosophy,” “Trying to Read The Encyclopaedia of
        Things No One Knows,”
and “The Dutiful,” 629
    Eugene Gloria, “Mojácar” and “Rabbits,” 633
    Marilyn Nelson, “Faster than Light,” 657
    Nance Van Winckel, “The Four Third Cousins,” 664
    Ciaran Berry, “Crepuscular,” “Cold Pastoral,” and “Gatherer,” 672

GRAPHICS
    Bascove, Paintings, 593