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Dev Hathaway
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Benjamin Hedin
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Karen Laborde
Sharbari Ahmed
Michael Downs
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Reginald Shepherd
Barbara Goldberg
Mark Halliday
Rebecca Givens
Scott Brennan
Linda Pastan
Richard Lyons
Debora Greger
Michael Borich
Lois Dodd







The Winter 2005 issue showcases paintings by Lois Dodd, essays by Dev Hathaway and Benjamin Hedin, fiction by Scott Schrader, Karen Laborde, and Michael Downs, and poems by Patricia Goedicke, Reginald Shepherd, and Debora Greger, as well as outstanding work by several others.

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Contents
Volume 18, Number 4 / Winter 2005

ESSAYS AND ESSAY-REVIEWS
    Dev Hathaway, “North Pole, South Pole, Sea of Carcinoma,” 509
    Mary E. O’Brien, “A Lost Week,” 545
    Robert Oldshue, “Code Blue,” 559
    Molly Hutton, “Looking In to Look Out: The Paintings of Lois Dodd,” 582
    E. H. Ford II, “God in Camden,” 593
    Benjamin Hedin, “Recreating Henry James” (review of Author, Author, by
        David Lodge and The Master, by Colm Tóibín), 493

FICTION
    Scott Schrader, “Thorazine,” 527
    Karen Laborde, “Barbecue,” 569
    Sharbari Ahmed, “The Ocean of Mrs. Nagai,” 613
    Michael Downs, “Ellen at the End of Summer,” 629

POETRY
    Patricia Goedicke, “The Blow,” 525
    Catherine French, “Adoration of the Owl” and “The Healer,” 542
    Reginald Shepherd, “Objects in Mirror Are Closer than They Appear” and 
        “Play Dead,” 556
    Barbara Goldberg, “The Day Before,” “Pretty Stories, Funny Pictures,” and         “Star,” 566
    Mark Halliday, “Not That Great of an Evening,” 578
    Rebecca Givens, “Requiem,” 581
    Scott Brennan, “Architeuthis Clarkei, the Giant Squid,” “The Puzzlemaker,”
        and “Sunlight in thte British Museum,” 606
    Linda Pastan, “Maiden Name,” 628
    Richard Lyons, “Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum (Alternate Take)” and “Yes I Can, No
        You Can’t (Endless Takes),” 638
    Debora Greger, “Letter Too Late to Reach Keats as He Awaits Passage
        to Naples from Gravesend,” 659
    Michael Borich, “Brush Arbor Nights” and “A Cricket Sang,” 661

GRAPHICS
    Lois Dodd, Paintings, 585