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Read the winning piece of our 2025 Nonfiction Contest “Through the Mirror” by Jessie Cato selected by Lucy Ives.

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Autumn 2005

Vol. XXVII, No. 4

Editor’s Notes

Editor’s Notes

By D. H. L.

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Fiction

The “Boston Globe” Personal Line

By Champa Bilwakesh

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Digesting the Father

By Kellie Wells

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Missing Men

By Geeta Kothari

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Lucky

By Lily Tuck

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The Madonna of the Relics

By Gregory Blake Smith

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Nonfiction

George Orwell and the Art of Writing

By Jeffrey Meyers

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Poetry

History for Another Time

By Lawrence Joseph

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The Rose of Time

By Bei Dao

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Road Song

By Bei Dao

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To Father

By Bei Dao

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Always the Same Face

By Phillis Levin

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Terror

By Chana Bloch

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The Sixth Age

By Chana Bloch

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Cold Weather Trees

By Meena Alexander

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Gal Noir

By Daisy Fried

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Used One Speed, Princeton

By Daisy Fried

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Sex at Seventeen

By Liz Rosenberg

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The Other Woman’s Point of View

By Liz Rosenberg

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What Use

By Liz Rosenberg

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Elegy (With Advertisement) Struggling to Find Its Hero

By Mark Irwin

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Dithyramb and Lamentation

By David Wojahn

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Establishment

By Eleanor Wilner

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An Ode to Asymmetry

By Eleanor Wilner

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Larger to Those Who Stay

By Eleanor Wilner

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The Freest Man Who Ever Lived

By Charles Harper Webb

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Quarantine

By Bob Hicok

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The Idea of Crocodiles

By Red Hawk

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Either / Or

By Sharon Dolin

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Homage to Syntax

By Campbell McGrath

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Elegy for the Odd, Where It Drains, Where It Ends

By Ander Monson

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La Rivière de Cassis

By Arthur Rimbaud, translated by John Kinsella

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Le Châtiment de Tartufe

By Arthur Rimbaud, translated by John Kinsella

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Les Douaniers

By Arthur Rimbaud, translated by John Kinsella

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Vénus Anadyomène

By Arthur Rimbaud, translated by John Kinsella

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Self-Portrait without a Subject

By Eric Pankey

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The Attitude

By Rodney Jones

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Olympiad

By Rodney Jones

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Snake Bird

By Debora Greger

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My First Mermaid

By Debora Greger

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What, Sweetie?

By Renée Ashley

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EZ Passitis

By Terese Svoboda

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Feeding the Fire

By Edison Jennings

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Nectar

By Edison Jennings

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Bangkok: City Streets

By Mông-Lan

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Bangkok: Royalty

By Mông-Lan

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Jig

By Robert Wrigley

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Yorick

By Robert Wrigley

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Golem

By David Moolten

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From Quarantine

By Brian Henry

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