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The Summer 1990 issue showcases paintings by Robert Berlind, essays by Reg Saner and Andrew Warshaw, fiction by Robert Olen Butler, Marly Swick, and Michael Pearce, and poems by Paul Zimmer, Gerald Stern, James Seay, as well as outstanding work by several others.

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Contents
Volume 3, Number 3 / Summer 1990

ESSAYS AND ESSAY-REVIEWS
    Peter Stitt, Editor’s Notes, 445
    Reg Saner, “The Mind of a Forest,” 452
    Reinhard Friederich, “Excelsior!” 481
    Andrew Warshaw, “Guinea Dreams,” 522
    Floyd Collins, “The Shaping Lens of Perception” (review of The World
        Doesn’t End
, by Charles Simic; Grace Notes, by Rita Dove; The Zoo Wheel
        of Knowledge
, by Henri Cole; Nurture, by Maxine Cumin; and Atoms, Soul
        Music and Other Poems
, by Baron Wormser), 572

FICTION
    Robert Olen Butler, “Relic,” 497
    Myron Taube, “Research,” 501
    Marly Swick, “The Rhythm of Disintegration,” 543
    Michael Pearce, “Eviction,” 556
    Romnesh Lamba, “Lemons,” 592

POETRY
    Paul Zimmer, “Thirteen Ways of Looking at the National Endowment for
        the Arts,” 447
    Gerald Stern, “Aspiring to Music,” 493
    Floyd Skloot, “Paganini and the Powers of Darkness,” 520
    Vanessa Haley, “The Entomologist’s Notebooks,” 554
    James Seay, “Not Something in a Magazine,” “Audubon Drive, Memphis,”
        and “Cottonmouth, Angus, Redwing,” 567
    Jessica Greenbaum, “Small Light in Big Dark House,” 590

GRAPHICS
    Robert Berlind, Paintings, 473