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 THREE POEMS BY SHERMAN ALEXIE











ODE TO MY SHARONA  | ODE TO JOLENE  | CENSUS


MOST READ IN 2009

1. More Lorrie Moore | Shaindel Beers
2. Girls on Bikes | Tracy Oliver
3. Salumaio | Paul Redman
4. The Empty Armchair | Cynthia Newberry Martin
5. Too Close to Home | Shaindel Beers
6. Baby in a Jar | Tania Hershman
7. Plum Island | Andrew Coburn
8. Short-Term Memory | William Hanigan
9. Epithalamium | Kara Candito
10. Frosting | Cynthia Newberry Martin

THE SAW LADY AND THE SOUND OF MUSIC
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REVIEWS

FICTION

Pornografia
by Witold Gombrowicz
Reviewed by Frances Badgett

An Equal Stillness
by Francesca Kay
Reviewed by Cynthia N. Martin

 POETRY    

Petals of Zero Petals of One
by Andrew Zawacki
Reviewed by Shaindel Beers

Winter Tenor
by Kevin Goodan
Reviewed by Gregory Lawless

Poetry
edited by Jessie Lendennie
Reviewed by Grace Wells

NON-FICTION

The Last Word
by J. D. Abel
Reviewed by Thomas Larson

Memoir: A History
by Ben Yagoda 
Reviewed by David M. Smith


INDEX OF REVIEWS
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QUESTIONS
ANNA POTTER

My father is a Frenchman, tall and curious looking with a thick moustache. Starfish, mussels, salty things. My father is a sailor, and he sails the seas in a striped shirt and polished boots and gray woolen cap. I am young and I am crying over a shell which fell out of my pocket into the deep waters of the sea. He holds me and says....  MORE 

THE ROCK, A DOUBLE ABECEDARIAN
BY LEAH WELBORN

INCIDENT IN A TRAVEL AGENT’S
EDWARD MC WHINNEY

That same day a lady in the office was forty. They brought a cake with candles alight into the room. A man named Brush, John Brush said: Life begins at forty, and I thought what a strange thing to say. The candles lit up her face, everything in her life lurking in the eyes sparkling in the flames.....  MORE

ALLEGORY
KIKI PETROSINO

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