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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 A POEM BY ALEX CIGALESherman_Alexie_Census.htmlSherman_Alexie_Sharona.htmlSherman_Alexie_Jolene.htmlSherman_Alexie_Census.htmlhttp://www.contrarymagazine.com/Contrary/Moore.htmlhttp://www.contrarymagazine.com/Contrary/Bikes.htmlhttp://www.contrarymagazine.com/Contrary/Salumaio.htmlhttp://www.contrarymagazine.com/Contrary/Armchair.htmlhttp://www.contrarymagazine.com/Contrary/Brandie.htmlhttp://www.contrarymagazine.com/Contrary/Baby.htmlhttp://www.contrarymagazine.com/Contrary/Plum.htmlhttp://www.contrarymagazine.com/Contrary/Memory.htmlhttp://www.contrarymagazine.com/Contrary/Epithalamium.htmlhttp://www.contrarymagazine.com/Contrary/Frosting.htmlAlex_Cigale_Saw_Lady.htmlAlex_Cigale_Saw_Lady.htmlshapeimage_1_link_0shapeimage_1_link_1shapeimage_1_link_2shapeimage_1_link_3shapeimage_1_link_4shapeimage_1_link_5shapeimage_1_link_6shapeimage_1_link_7shapeimage_1_link_8shapeimage_1_link_9shapeimage_1_link_10shapeimage_1_link_11shapeimage_1_link_12shapeimage_1_link_13shapeimage_1_link_14shapeimage_1_link_15
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 2009Reviews_2010.htmlGombrowicz_Pornografia.htmlGombrowicz_Pornografia.htmlGombrowicz_Pornografia.htmlFrancesca_Kay_Equal_Stillness.htmlFrancesca_Kay_Equal_Stillness.htmlFrancesca_Kay_Equal_Stillness.htmlZawacki_Petals.htmlZawacki_Petals.htmlZawacki_Petals.htmlGoodan_Winter_Tenor.htmlGoodan_Winter_Tenor.htmlGoodan_Winter_Tenor.htmlPoetry_Lendennie.htmlPoetry_Lendennie.htmlPoetry_Lendennie.htmlAbel_Epitaphs.htmlAbel_Epitaphs.htmlAbel_Epitaphs.htmlBen_Yagoda_Memoir.htmlBen_Yagoda_Memoir.htmlBen_Yagoda_Memoir.htmlhttp://www.contrarymagazine.com/Contrary/Reviews.htmlhttp://www.contrarymagazine.com/Contrary/Reviews.htmlshapeimage_2_link_0shapeimage_2_link_1shapeimage_2_link_2shapeimage_2_link_3shapeimage_2_link_4shapeimage_2_link_5shapeimage_2_link_6shapeimage_2_link_7shapeimage_2_link_8shapeimage_2_link_9shapeimage_2_link_10shapeimage_2_link_11shapeimage_2_link_12shapeimage_2_link_13shapeimage_2_link_14shapeimage_2_link_15shapeimage_2_link_16shapeimage_2_link_17shapeimage_2_link_18shapeimage_2_link_19shapeimage_2_link_20shapeimage_2_link_21shapeimage_2_link_22shapeimage_2_link_23
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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 Years ago, when rain was coming, Dante would push his tongue against the screen of his bedroom window, taking in the iron smell of storms, the sad taste of screenmesh.... MOREAnna_Potter_Questions.htmlAnna_Potter_Questions.htmlAnna_Potter_Questions.htmlLeah_Welborn_The_Rock.htmlLeah_Welborn_The_Rock.htmlEdward_Mc_Whinney_Travel_Agents.htmlEdward_Mc_Whinney_Travel_Agents.htmlEdward_Mc_Whinney_Travel_Agents.htmlKiki_Petrosino_Allegory.htmlKiki_Petrosino_Allegory.htmlKiki_Petrosino_Allegory.htmlshapeimage_4_link_0shapeimage_4_link_1shapeimage_4_link_2shapeimage_4_link_3shapeimage_4_link_4shapeimage_4_link_5shapeimage_4_link_6shapeimage_4_link_7shapeimage_4_link_8shapeimage_4_link_9shapeimage_4_link_10
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