VOLUME 15.2

Contents

Ihab Hassan
    Let the Fresh Air In
Grace Schulman
    Confessions of a Close Reader
Robert Morgan
    The Gift of Pause
Malashri Lal
    Theory; A View from India
Douglas Dix
    The Closing of the American Mind
Alicia Ostriker
    The Theory Debate: Both Sides Now
H. Aram Vesser
    Is There History After College?
Lance Olsen
    Finding
Neal Bowers
    Essences
    The Cure
George Eklund
    Three Stones
Bob Hicok
    Letter Home
Dan Brown
    Where I Was
Kim Bridgford
    Tea
Gerald Grubbs
    At Night
Kip Knott
    Hide and Seek
Philip Dacey
    She Writes Offering to Buy for Her Son,
    in Minnesota, an Electric Blanket
    Upon the Establishment of a Minnesota State Lottery
John Donoghue
    Stars
Steve Blaski
    The Crossing Over
Philip Levine
    Peter's Gift
Jack Israel
    Startled by the "I"s
Peggy Shumaker
    Rapt
Ann Darr
    Five You's of February
Peter Desy
    My Doctor, His Proctoscope
Ricq Pattay
    Jars
Paul Zimmer
    Lightning
Taylor Graham
    Dogs, Coming Home
Kristin Herbert
    Burgeoning Season
Olga Cabral
    An Interior
Alison Baker
    Couple Unscathed in Skyway Incident
James Lewelling
    Big Eyes
Katherine Sotol
    The Talking Cure
Tony Whedon
    Why I Am Not a Painter
Maurice Kilwein Guevara
    Messiahs Epistolaris
Valerie Block
    Watch Your Language
John Goulet
    Yvette in Love