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The Summer 2005 issue showcases paintings by Jessica Dunne, essays by Amy Yelin and Natalie Wexler, fiction by Askold Melnyczuk, Murzban F. Shroff, and
Joan Connor, and poems by Robert Bly, Linda Pastan, and James Tate, as well as outstanding work by several others.

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Contents
Volume 18, Number 2 / Summer 2005

ESSAYS AND ESSAY-REVIEWS
    Amy Yelin, “Growth,” 189
    Natalie Wexler, “Perfect,” 221
    Hoag Holmgren, “Sky Burial,” 241
    Molly Hutton, “Views through the Windshield: Driving with Jessica
        Dunne,” 246
    Rebecca Gould, “Behind the Wall of the Caucasus,” 291
    Kim Drain, “The Matter of Translation: Wislawa Szymborska’s
        ‘Conversation with a Rock,’ ” 324

FICTION
    Joan Connor, “Palimpsest,” 173
    Askold Melnyczuk, “The Great Hospital,” 199
    Murzban F. Shroff, “Breathless in Bombay,” 259
    Rumaan Alam, “The Healing Power of Pets,” 307

POETRY
    Louis Simpson, “In and about the House” and “The Piano Player,” 186
    Albert Goldbarth, “Completing the Things,” “Context,” and “Mainz,” 193
    Robert Bly, “The Blind Tobit,” “Listening to the Sitar before Dawn,”
        “Loafing with Old Friends at Ojo Caliente,” and “A Poem for Andrew         Marvell,” 217
    Chirstopher Howell, “After Three Years,” “The President Speaks Out on
        the Issues,” “First Touch,” “Burning Bush,” and “All of Us Are
        Dreaming,” 234
    James Tate, “The Orchid,” 257
    Christopher Bakken, “Days of 1987” and “Theme Song for an Agrarian
        Epic,” 289
    Alpay Ulku, “Coronation” and “Market Days,” 305
    Linda Pastan, “The Art of Pain” and “On Seeing My Poems Traslated into         Chinese,” 318
    David Baker, “The Judas-Horse” and “Slant Cut,” 320
    Gary Short, “Tattoo” and “Twists,” 336

GRAPHICS
    Jessica Dunne, Paintings, 249