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John Ashbery, Floating Away

Edward Hoagland, Triage Along the Nile

Michael Logan, The Pressure Points

Christopher Sorrentino, Death in the Age of Digital Proliferation, and Other Considerations

Peter Mountford, A Room on the Eighth Floor

Ann Lauterbach, After Tourism

Kyoto Mori, Between the Forest and the Well: Notes on Death

Michael Upchurch, The Hanging Jetty

Shelley Jackson, Early Dispatches from the Land of the Dead

Melissa Pritchard, A Solemn Pleasure

Brenda Hillman, Cezanne's Colors

Sarah Manguso, The Task of Memory

Ted Mathys, Four Poems

Bob Shacochis, From The Woman Who Lost Her Soul

Geoff Dyer, What Will Survive of Us

Jim Harrison, Three Poems in Search of Small Gods

Mary Gordon, Little Sister

Sallie Tisdale, The Sutra of Maggots and Blow Flies

Mary Jo Bang, Two Poems

Jessica Hagedorn, Toxicology

Eliot Weinberger, Questions of Death [1892]

Jay Cantor, Memorial Church

C. D. Wright, Some Old Words Were Spoken

Doris Betts, Another Modest Proposal

Nicholas Delbanco, Mere Oblivion

Jayne Anne Phillips, Leavitt's Dream

David Ives, St. Francis Preaches to the Birds

Thomas Lynch, Shilling Life

Tom Robbins, The Meaning of Life

Mark Doty, Bijou

Lance Olsen, Lessness

H. G. Carrillo, Andalucia

Brian Evenson, The Adjudicator

David Guterson, Five Poems

Terese Svoboda, My Brother's Dust

Lucius Seneca, Sick (translated from the Latin by John D'Agata)

Melanie Rae Thon, In This Light

Joe Wenderoth, To Take Place

Susan Daitch, Morto

Robert Clark, Bayham Street

Joyce Carol Oates, Dear Husband,

David Huddle, Wages of Love