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A literary magazine named after the Vedic god of fire
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2004

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Contents
FictionEssaysPoetryConversationsReviews

Fiction

The Wrong Stop
by Perle Besserman
The Fourteen Stages of Tequila
by Brian Booker
Cagliostro
by David Brizer
Bone on Bone
by Jai Clare
Fire Works
by Patrick Cole
Neo-Globalism
by James Jay Egan
Going Nowhere
by David Galef
Portrait of Duff
by David Galef
Doberman
by Joseph Hurka
Loud Children
by Mary O’Donoghue
Red Balloon
by Sarah Jane Shute
Presidential Dreams
by Donna George Storey
Eucalyptus, Dead and Burning in the Sun
by Patricia Suárez
The Flight Back
by Shimon Tanaka
Minor Robberies
by Deb Olin Unferth
Passport
by Deb Olin Unferth
Eating the Bible
by Robert Vivian

Essays

Scratch
by Sven Birkerts
The Decline of the West & Other Animadversions
by Sven Birkerts
Technical Difficulty
by J. D. Daniels
Moscow to the End of the Line
by William Eaton
Products of a reading of an English translation of Doctor Zhivago’s Italian publisher
by William Eaton
Caffeine
by Anne Germanacos
On Leaving the Womb
by Eric Grunwald
An Instance
by Doran Larson
Shadowboxing: with Alan Greenspan
by Askold Melnyczuk
A Reader’s Response to Anis Shivani’s “Where Does Collaboration with Fascist Aesthetics Begin and End?”
by Kathryn A. Kopple, PhD
End Papers
by Sam Pickering
A Violence from Within: Poetry & Terrorism
by Ken Sherman
Where Does Collaboration with Fascist Aesthetics Begin and End?
by Anis Shivani

Poetry

Untitled
by Jozef Baran
Translated from the Polish by Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough
The Pear
by Liz Beasley
The Vial Often Breaks
by Ian Bickford
Homecoming
by Anthony Caleshu
From a Childhood in Pioneer Valley
by Peter Campion
Mercury
by Karen Chase
Search
by Melanie Crow
Abroad
by Christopher Davis
The Cartoonist
by Sally Dawidoff
Inside the Fire
by Chard DeNiord
Viking
by Valerie Duff
Last Words
by Chris Forhan
Woman Submerged in a Car
by Lawrence Goeckel
Late Quartet
by Barry Goldensohn
Call Me Kaboom
by John Grey
A Night in 2029
by Mark Halliday
Ex Libris
by Megan Harlan
[Your Name Here]
by David Hernandez
On Queen Anne Hill
by Susan Hutton
Seven Journeys
by Susan Hutton
Fog
by Martha Kinney
The Lovers in the Moonlight
by Martha Kinney
This young Rembrandt . . .
by Aleksandr Kushner
Translated from the Russian by Carol Ueland and Robert Carnevale
Cilice
by Dana Levin
Man in a Ruff
by Dana Levin
Practice
by Adrian Lurssen
Misunderstood
by Melissa Monroe
from Seventeen Wings: 1-6
by Philip Pardi
Chicago Scale
by Ed Pavlic
In Chambers: Local Law Enforcement Professionals
by Ed Pavlic
Spring Cleaning Begins with Lines from Karl Marx
by Joyce Peseroff
Otology
by Allan Peterson
Regret
by Siobhan Phillips
Mrs. Robinson
by Jacquelyn Pope
Phobia Poems
by Mary Quade
Love Poem
by Emily Raabe
Desire
by Emily Scudder
Poems 146, 225, and 262
by Han Shan
Translated from the Chinese by Tony Barnstone
Galileo in Florence
by B. T. Shaw
Plum
by David Shumate
The Long Road
by David Shumate
Hen
by James Malone Smith
Breaking
by Kristen Tracy
Seasonal
by Tim Upperton
Table Talk
by Tim Upperton
Sky for Stained Bandages
by Fritz Ward
Spectral Evidence
by Joel Whitney
Podillia
by Olena Zahajkewycz
Translated from the Ukrainian by Askold Melnyczuk

Conversations

Between Athens & Jerusalem: A Conversation with Adam Zagajewski
by Brian Barker and Todd Samuelson
The Complexity of the Human Heart: A Conversation with Marie Howe
by David Elliott
Interview with Suárez
by William T Vandegrift Jr

Reviews

Smiles & Slogans
by Harvey Blume
Love and Its Derivatives
by Kristina Lucenko
Peripheral Light
by Eric McHenry
The Siege of the Body . . .
by Ellen Wehle
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