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The Spring 2003 issue showcases paintings by Wade Schuman, essays by Blake Bailey and Paul Zimmer, fiction by Joyce Carol Oates and Terry Bain, and poems by Rita Dove, Elton Glaser, and Linda Pastan, as well as outstanding work by several others.

To order a copy of the Spring 2003 issue today, go to the Featured Back Issue page, fill out the form, and in the Notes box, specify that you wish to receive issue 16.1.


Contents
Volume 16, Number 1 / Spring 2003

ESSAYS AND ESSAY-REVIEWS
    Blake Bailey, “Yates and RFK,” 27
    Andrea Clark Mason, “The Inaccessible Sun,” 69
    Paul Zimmer, “The Gray Fox,” 101
    Jeffrey Scheuer, “Clusters,” 129
    Gerald Weales, “Bums, Tramps, and Hoboes,” (review of Down and Out, On the         Road, The Homeless in American History, by Kenneth L. Kusmer), 146

FICTION
    Joyce Carol Oates, “Doll: A Romance of the Mississippi,” 5
    Elizabeth Kadetsky, “The Poison That Purifies You,” 49
    Richard K. Weems, “Anything He Wants,” 89
    Terry Bain, “This Is What You Owe Me,” 111

POETRY
    Rita Dove, “Quick,” “Brown,” and “Fox,” 23
    Sandra Kohler, “After Arcadia,” 26
    Will Esposito, “On Mount Kineo,” 44
    Elton Glaser, “Solstice of the Goat,” “Writing Myself Off,” and “Mythos of         Honey and Brine,” 45
    Mike Dockins, “American Love Story” and “Still Life,” 65
    Bruce Bond, “Crucifix,” 68
    Robert Cording, “Sanctuary” and “Before Morning,” 78
    John Bargowski, “Nearly Wild” and “Poachers,” 97
    Baron Wormser, “Poet” and “Antidepressant,” 99
    Linda Pastan, “November Poem” and “Cyclone,” 107
    Ron DeMaris, “Something Domestic” and “Apples,” 109
    Patricia Goedicke, “Northern Willow,” 127
    Eamon Grennan, “What It Comes Down To,” “Phoenix Me This by Moonfall,”         and “Bye and Bye,” 139
    Joan Hutton Landis, “Approaching Seventy” and “Both,” 142
    Michael Heffernan, “The Emperor,” 163

GRAPHICS
    Wade Schuman, Paintings, 165