Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee University Review

CONTENTS OF CURRENT ISSUE

Nonfiction
6     Joy Passanante   Visitations

Fiction
19    George Singleton   Exhuming Mathematics
71    Barbara Hamby   Lester Higata and the
            Orchid of Divine Retribution
89    Karen Heuler Shady Guy
97    Sam Howie The Well
114  Cary Holladay   Hitching Post

Poetry
5      David Bottoms   First Woods
18    Kevin Prufer   Seeds
85    Elton Glaser   Evenings Homesick for the
            Absolute
87   John Casteen   Late Night on the Maine Coast, News of the Lebanon War Arrives
92    Laurence Lieberman   Impounded from the Sea
95    Dan Stryk   Icarus Redeemed
108 Thorpe Moeckel Where We Lived, Where We GotPaid; Squeal Like a Pig
111 Robert Parham The First Scaffold
113 Michael McFee   Mistletoe

Portfolio
32    New Work from Finalists for the Annual Shenandoah/Glasgow Prize for Emerging
        Writers 2007 (for Poetry)
33    Sarah Kennedy   The Judge's Comments
35    Sally Ball COLD
36    Lillias Bever Demonstration
38    Victoria Chang "One More Than One"
40    Kyle Dargan Shade Tree; Still Life w/ President, Wreath and Unknown Soldier
42    Robert Fanning   The Boy Who Taught Me How to Whistle
44    Karin Gottshall Communion; Nostalgia
46    Raza Ali Hasan from 67 Mogul Miniatures
48    Amaud Jamaul Johnson   Tired Blood; LeRoi Eating Watermelon at Howard
50    Suji Kwock Kim    Slant; Aftermath
52    Joshua Kryah    from Closen: 1 [call: Claire]; 2 [response: Mary]
54    David Moolten    Columbarium; Parable of the Capsized Canoe
57   Patrick Phillips   Ars Poetica
58   David Roderick    O Cotton Mather
60   Dana Roeser    Mud Cap
63   Emily Rosko    [Time and the hours runs through the roughest day]; Two from
           Weather Inventions: It's been proven -- the universe hums; Sun, you have
            your own combustion, storm
66    Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon   Dear John: (Invention); Body Worlds 2: In Case

Book Reviews
134   Joseph Bates on Edward P. Jones's New Stories from the South: The Year's Best,
           2007
137   Jacqueline Kolosov on Ann Harleman's Thoreau's Laundry
140   Sarah Kennedy on Byron Rogers's The Man Who Went into the West: The Life of
           R. S. Thomas

Editor’s Note
143 O Western Wind, When Wilt Thou Blow . . .

Contributors / 149

Cover
Suzanne Stryk / detail from Code (Pandora Moth)
mixed media, 15" x 20", 2004

Index / 155

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