Spring 2001

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editors’ Note
Jonathan Safran Foer and Bradford Morrow

His Blue Period
Valerie Martin

Defense of Ground
William T. Vollmann

The Big Durn Flood
George Saunders

Two Poems
Translated by George McWhirter and Homero Aridjis

Managed Care
Tova Reich

Three Dragons
Elizabeth Robinson

From Imagisme, In a Station of the Metro/The Arch
Michael Coffey

(Parabola)
Erica Hunt

21 Epiphanies on the Great Egg
Joyce Carol Oates

Three Poems
Sandra Meek

Rooster Pollard Cricket Goose
Noy Holland

Gorgias
Gilbert Sorrentino

Mosquitos and Folk Songs
Translated by Chen Jie and Can Xue

The Smokers
Rebecca Brown

The Launch
Ben Marcus

Beacon Line
Sally Keith

Charity
William H. Gass

Theoretical Man
Mark McMorris

Kids Who Died at My High School This Year
Elisabeth Cohen

The Grand Illusion
Paul West

Ten TV Tales
Lynne Tillman

Punch
Robert Coover

You Are Leaving the Present Now: Twelve Variations on the Theme of Memory
Sarah Rothenberg

Queen Gloriana’s Revenge
Alexander Theroux

Home, Jeeves!
Jonathan Ames

Instructions for Optimum Growth
Paul Maliszewski

The Beginning of the World Feeling Ought to be Exhilarating
Diane Williams

Fruit Salad
Dale Peck

Grilled Pigeon and Counterpane Wars
Rikki Ducornet