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Spring 2001

Spring 2001

Volume 77, Number 2

China Boy by Russell Fraser
Farewell to the Farewell Address? by Michael Dunne
Mr. Faulkner: Writer-in-Residence by Joseph Blotner
Fiction by Marlin Barton, Joann Kobin, Bill Oliver
Poetry by Wislawa Szymborska (translated by Joanna Trzeciak), Julianna Baggott, Richard Katrovas, Cynthia Huntington, Linda Pastan

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China Boy

By Russell Fraser

That first trip to China I was into Eastern religions. I held all life sacred, not just vertebrates like me. Bugs were God's creatures, and who could say what form they took in a previous incarnation. Picking them up on a 3 × 5 card, I dropped the [...]

Discipline and Will

By Joann Kobin

For Dora Maar

By Cynthia Huntington

Race Does Matter

By Robert J. Norrell

On Making Mirages, Tahitian and Otherwise

By Allan H. Pasco

Democratizing American Commemorative Monuments

By Michael Kammen

One Version of Events

By Wislawa Szymborska, Translated by Joanna Trzeciak

Slow Waltz

By Marlin Barton

Farewell to the Farewell Address? or A Discourse of the Permanent and Transient in American Politics

By Michael Dunne

China Boy

By Russell Fraser

Carnage In Rural Virginia

By Joan Waugh

Citizen Hearst

By Martin Ochs

Remembrance of Proust Past

By Emile J. Talbot

Berlin Jewish Pioneers of Modernism

By Edward T. Chase

Berlin for Everybody

By Angus Maclean Thuermer

The Literature of California

By David Wyatt

The Green Room, Spring 2001

By Staige D. Blackford

My Cousin Attempts Suicide In Gander Hill Prison

By Julianna Baggott

Notes on Current Books, Spring 2001

My Mother’s National Geographics

By Julianna Baggott

Excursion

By Bill Oliver

The Boxers’ Embrace

By Richard Katrovas

Rehab

By Richard Katrovas

Play It Again, Sam

By George Watson

Old Love

By Cynthia Huntington

Essays

Mr. Faulkner: Writer-In-Residence

By Joseph Blotner

Poetry

The Last Uncle

By Linda Pastan

Frances and Mary Allen, Sewing Group, Ca. 1900

By Linda Pastan

A Glass of Cold Water

By Linda Pastan

No Title Required

By Wislawa Szymborska, Translated by Joanna Trzeciak

Rubens’ Women

By Wislawa Szymborska, Translated by Joanna Trzeciak

Under A Certain Little Star

By Wislawa Szymborska, Translated by Joanna Trzeciak

Water

By Wislawa Szymborska, Translated by Joanna Trzeciak

Author Profiles

Russell Fraser

Bill Oliver

Bill Oliver is the author of a collection of stories, WOMEN & CHILDREN FIRST (Mid-List, 1998), and a book of interviews (along with Bonnie Lyons), PASSION AND CRAFT: CONVERSATIONS WITH NOTABLE WRITERS (Univ.