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The Summer 1991 issue showcases paintings by William M. Sullivan, essays by Paul Mariani and F. D. Reeve, fiction by Garrison Keillor and William Hoffman, and poems by Michael Waters, William Matthews, Eric Pankey, as well as outstanding work by several others.

To order a copy of the Summer 1991 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 4.3.


Contents
Volume 4, Number 3 / Summer 1991

ESSAYS AND ESSAY-REVIEWS
    Peter Stitt, Editor’s Notes, 359
    Michael O’Rourke, “Where Are You From?” 404
    Susan Weinberg, “World O’ Wonders,” 409
    Paul Mariani, “Beginnings,” 425
    F. D. Reeve, “Islands, Cities & Flowers,” 454
    Floyd Collins, “Metamorphosis Within the Poetry of Charles Wright”
        (review of The World of the Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980–1990, by
        Charles Wright), 464
    Steven G. Kellerman, “King Author and His Arabian Nights” (review of
        Haroun and the Sea of Stories
, by Salman Rushdie; The Last Voyage of
        Somebody the Sailor
, by John Barth; Immortality, by Milan Kundera; Los
        Gusanos
, by John Sayles; and Leaving Losapas, by Roland Merullo), 484
    Gerald Weales, “Taking Cover” (review of The Complete Book of Covers from
        the New Yorker, 1925–1989), 498

FICTION
    Garrison Keillor, “Touring with the Shepherds,” 361
    William Hoffman, “Connections,” 439

POETRY
    Michael Waters, “River Wife,” 402
    Alice Jones, “Where the Music Comes From,” 407
    Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, “The Inheritance,” 415
    William Matthews, “My Father’s Body” and “The Wolf of Gubbio,” 436
    Mike White, “Flight,” 451
    David Huddle, “At the Desert Museum” and “Local Metaphysics,” 460
    Alexander Thorburn, “The Bottling Plant” and “The Barbershop,” 480
    Eric Pankey, “Milk Glass,” “Te Deum Laudamus,” and “The History of the         World,” 495
    Robert McNamara, “The End of Strife” and “At the Edge of the Dunes,” 511

GRAPHICS
    William M. Sullivan, Paintings, 417