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May 1980

 
  • William Baer
  • Margaret Benbow
  • Michael Blumenthal
  • Stephen Clark
  • J. Cullum
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Before Cooking an Eggplant

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When She Is Silent

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At the Smithsonian

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Table of Contents

  • Eric Weil
    • Before Cooking an Eggplant
    • The Path of the Headlights
  • William Baer
    • When She Is Silent
    • Books
  • Vanessa Haley
    • At the Smithsonian
    • Dead Horses
  • Robert Wiljer
    • Moose
  • Celia Gilbert
    • Journey
  • Michael C. Blumenthal
    • The Flirtation
    • Life Goes On
  • Linda Gregerson
    • Frame
    • Wife
    • The Three-Legged Dog at the Heart of Our Home
  • Jeffrey Skinner
    • His Side
    • Her Side
  • Alice Wirth Gray
    • Zoo Prepares to Adopt Metric System
    • A Present for Poor Monsieur Proust
  • Stephen Clark
    • Summer Visitors
  • Florence Grossman
    • Sewing Box
    • Tree
  • Kelly Ivie
    • Gull Lake Reunion
  • David M. Graham
    • Dusk
  • Miles Krogfus
    • Sun Photographs
  • Gary Fincke
    • The Girl Who Breathes through a Hole in Her Neck
  • J. W. Cullum
    • Roses, Revisited, in a Paradoxical Autumn
  • Don Johnson
    • The Children's Hour
  • Nancy Hormel Reinert
    • Gopher Snake
  • Ralph Robin
    • Directions
  • Margaret Benbow
    • Bride and Bear
    • The Old Biograph Girl
    • High Wind
Comment
  • Donald Hall
    • Naming the Devils
CONTRIBUTORS
  • William Baer
  • Margaret Benbow
  • Michael C. Blumenthal
  • Stephen Clark
  • J. W. Cullum
  • Gary Fincke
  • Celia Gilbert
  • David M. Graham
  • Alice Wirth Gray
  • Linda Gregerson
  • Florence Grossman
  • Vanessa Haley
  • Donald Hall
  • Kelly Ivie
  • Don Johnson
  • Miles Krogfus
  • Nancy Hormel Reinert
  • Ralph Robin
  • Jeffrey Skinner
  • Eric Weil
  • Robert Wiljer
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