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