Spring 2009

Volume 85/2

• Ted Conover walks a thinning frozen river in the Himalayas • Tipper Gore photographs a shrinking glacier in western Canada • Paul Reyes hunts icebergs for profit in the North Atlantic • Pat Joseph on the risks of genengineering a solution to global warming • Dimiter Kenarov trails a serial killer in Macedonia • Installment #4 of “Jordan W. Lint” by Chris Ware • Lawrence Weschler on the art of Trevor and Ryan Oakes • Poetry by Rita Dove and Jim Harrison

Spring 2009

Volume 85, Number 2

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Poetry

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2009

Paris, Panting

By Rita Dove

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2009

What Doesn’t Happen

By Rita Dove

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2009

Black Billy Waters, at His Pitch

By Rita Dove

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2009

Self-Portrait as a Hand Weeding

By Stefi Weisburd

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2009

Pretty Boy

By Rita Dove

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2009

Floating Requiem

By Rita Dove

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2009

Nomadia

By Rita Dove

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2009

Water, Curlew, Snipe

By Eamon Grennan

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The Ass’s Dilemma: Can Man Engineer the Climate?

By Pat Joseph

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Old Man Throwing a Ball

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Slipping from Shangri-La

By Ted Conover

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The Most Dangerous Hobby in the World: Film Collecting in the Digital Age

By Eric G. Wilson

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Last Days of the Glacier

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The Spirit Bird

By Kent Nelson

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Between the House and the Chicken Yard

By Blake Bailey

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The Inquiry

By Jessica Francis Kane

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Barren’s End

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Real Americans

By Oscar Villalon

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Promise of Snow

By Walter Jost

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The Mask of Sanity: On the Trail of a Serial Killer in Macedonia

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Book Notes

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All Mystery Mine

By Walter Jost

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Jordan W. Lint, Installment #4

By Chris Ware

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The Radio Tells Us It’s Snowing in Montauk

By Anne Pierson Wiese

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Polar Explorer Adrien de Gerlache, First to Winter Below the Antarctic Circle (1898)

By Elizabeth Bradfield

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Double Vision: The Art of Trevor and Ryan Oakes

By Lawrence Weschler

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Night Watch

By Kevin Prufer

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The Sword of Damocles

By Ted Genoways

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Bishop Glacier

By Tipper Gore

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Girl, Frozen

By Sara Pennington

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H. L. Mencken’s “The South Astir”

By Andrew Shelden

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One Shot Fells a Thousand Tons

By Paul Reyes

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Storm Warning

By R. T. Smith

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Robert Penn Warren: “Renaissance Man” of the South

By Mary Beth Lineberry

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The Heartless Immensity

By Jason Anthony

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The Golden Window

By Jim Harrison

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Contributor Profiles

Ted Conover

Ted Conover is the author of Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing, Whiteout, Coyotes, and Rolling Nowhere. He is writer-in-residence at the Arthur L.

Rita Dove

Rita Dove is a former US Poet Laureate (1993–1995) and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for her book Thomas and Beulah (Carnegie Mellon, 1986).