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The Autumn 2004 issue showcases paintings by Virginia Creighton, essays by Caroline Tompkins and Kristen Carson, fiction by Dev Hathaway, Shimon Tanaka, Scott Schrader, and poems by Brendan Galvin, Debora Greger, Jeanne Murray Walker, as well as outstanding work by several others.

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Contents
Volume 17, Number 3 / Autumn 2004

ESSAYS AND ESSAY-REVIEWS
    Peter Stitt, Editor’s Pages: “The Kingdom of Maroni, Part VIII,” 341
    Dorinda Clifton, “What Does a Cat Know,” 371
    Caroline Tompkins, “Spelling Bee,” 393
    Molly Hutton, “The Paintings of Virginia Creighton,” 414
    Kristen Carson, “The Teacher,” 454
    Gerald Weales, “Out on a Limbo” (review of Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots,
        White-Collar Dreams
, by Alfred Lubrano), 486

FICTION
    Dev Hathaway, “Bashi Ja-lut,” 353
    Rosie Dempsey, “When It Happens,” 379
    William Conescu, “The Performance,” 407
    Shimon Tanaka, “At School,” 425
    Scott Schrader, “Liar,” 470

POETRY
    Karin Gottshall, “The Alice Experiment,” 366
    A. F. Moritz, “Kurt Mazur’s Ears,” 378
    Brendan Galvin, “Letter from George Ludlow, Merchant,” “A Proposal of         Banishment,” and “Doffing & Donning: An Exchange of Letters,” 386
    Debora Greger, “Bindweed” and “The Ruins of Childhood,” 405
    Jeanne Murray Walker, “After 9/11: The Separations,” “Domestic
        Violence,” “Take Heart,” and “Anger,” 450
    Rebecca Givens, “Two Months No Music,” 463
    Stephen Dunn, “Cohabitating,” “The Answers,” and “The Answers,” 464
    David Wagoner, “Stopping Along the Way,” 484
    Jill Osier, “Second Sky,” “Night,” and “If Love Is Somewhere Else,” 496

GRAPHICS
    Virginia Creighton, Paintings, 417