Fall 2008

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The Sutra of Maggots and Blowflies
Sallie Tisdale

Lessness
Lance Olsen

Leavitt’s Dream
Jayne Anne Phillips

Questions of Death
Eliot Weinberger

Between the Forest and the Well: Notes on Death
Kyoko Mori

Memorial Church
Jay Cantor

Sick
Lucius Seneca and Translated by John D’Agata

A Solemn Pleasure
Melissa Pritchard

The Meaning of Life
Tom Robbins

Early Dispatches From the Land of the Dead
Shelley Jackson

Five Poems
David Guterson

Wages of Love
David Huddle

Dear Husband,
Joyce Carol Oates

What Will Survive of Us
Geoff Dyer

Two Poems
Mary Jo Bang

Mere Oblivion
Nicholas Delbanco

Floating Away
John Ashbery

Morto
Susan Daitch

From The Woman Who Lost Her Soul
Bob Shacochis

In This Light
Melanie Rae Thon

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

Four Poems
Ted Mathys

Bayham Street
Robert Clark

Another Modest Proposal
Doris Betts

Bijou
Mark Doty

My Brother’s Dust
Terese Svoboda

Little Sister
Mary Gordon

St. Francis Preaches to the Birds
David Ives

Toxicology
Jessica Hagedorn

After Tourism
Ann Lauterbach

Cézanne’s Colors
Brenda Hillman

Shilling Life
Thomas Lynch

The Hanging Jetty
Michael Upchurch

The Adjudicator
Brian Evenson

The Pressure Points
Michael Logan

To Take Place
Joe Wenderoth

Triage Along the Nile
Edward Hoagland

The Task of Memory
Sarah Manguso

A Room on the Eighth Floor
Peter Mountford

Some Old Words Were Spoken
C. D. Wright

Three Poems in Search of Small Gods
Jim Harrison

Andalucía
H. G. Carrillo