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The Winter 2003 issue showcases paintings by Armand Fleurimond, essays by Anne McAlpin and Albert Goldbarth, fiction by Alice Fulton, Beth Simon, and John Leary, and poems by Debora Greger, Billy Collins, and Patricia Goedicke, as well as outstanding work by several others.

To order a copy of the Winter 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 16.4.


Contents
Volume 16, Number 4 / Winter 2003

ESSAYS AND ESSAY-REVIEWS
    Peter Stitt, “The Kingdom of Maroni, Part VII,” Editor’s Pages, 509
    Anne McAlpin, “The Machair,” 547
    Elizabeth Spires, “Original Innocence: The Paintings of Armand
        Fleurimond,” 582
    Albert Goldbarth, “Roman Erotic Poetry,” 593
    Kathryn Kefauver, “The Cool Good Life Is the Farmer’s,” 637
    Paula Chertok, “Plantation,” 643

FICTION
    Alice Fulton, “The Real Eleanor Rigby,” 521
    Beth Simon, “Bialy Café,” 567
    John Leary, “Here’s to Abundance,” 625
    Amber Dermont, “Merchants,” 653

POETRY
    Patricia Goedicke, “The City of In Between” and “Heliopause in
        His Study Now Her Bedroom,” 543
    Nance Van Winckel, “Chaplin’s Moustache,” “The Winter Cow,” and
        “When the Van Broke Down,” 564
    Debora Greger, “Paris, City of the Dead,” “California Elegy,” and
        “Rest on the Flight to Egypt,” 578
    Billy Collins, “Theme” and “The Only Thing I Brought to Read,” 622
    Rennie McQuilkin, “St. Columba and the Toad,” 634
    Dabney Stuart, “Kungälv, Sweden: Christmas 1938,” 636
    Suji Kwock Kim, “Three Sijo from the Choson Dynasty,” 641
    G. C. Waldrep, “Sanctuary,” 642
    John Latta, “Divers Humors” and “Lengthening Traces of
        Unwashable Grit,”
650

GRAPHICS
    Armand Fleurimond, Paintings, 585