Table of Contents

Table Talk

Daisy Fried
Poem: Death, A Poem in Two Parts

Michel de Montaigne
Miscellany: Monsters

Robert Pinsky
Poem: Veni, Creator Spiritus

Lucy Sante
Memoir: French Without Tears

Paul Muldoon
Poem: Blaye

Clark Blaise
Fiction: The Belle of Shediac

Jill McDonough
Poems: American History

Bert Keizer
Books: Monsieur Proust
by Céleste Albaret

David Cozy
Books: The Death of Picasso
by Guy Davenport

Sven Birkerts
Books: The Ambassadors by Henry James

Martha Greenwald
Poem: At the Checkout

Bill Sweeney
Poem: Family Stories

P. N. Furbank, TobiasWolff,
Edwin Frank, Louise Glück,
W. S. Di Piero, Frederick Wiseman
A Symposium on Realism

Michael Chitwood
Poem: The Word Given Back to the Mouth

Lisa Michaels
Photography: Limelight by Helen Gee

Josh Shoemake
Fiction: The Knight of
Infinite Resignation

Steve Vineberg
Theater/Film: Never Gonna Dance and The Company

Todd Newberry
Perspective: Aquariums

Jim Powell
Poem: WL 8338

Letters to the Editor

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Cover: Eugène Atget, Décrotteur, 1899. Reproduced by permission of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.