Table of Contents HERBERT LEIBOWITZ Surgery: An Introduction « 7 ALICE ATTIE Inside the Operating Room: A Portfolio “Seven-Minute” Scrub: Prep Neurosurgery Burn: And Awaiting ( iraft Prep: Pediatric Surgery (Kid with Plastic) Closing: Pediatric Neurosurgery Caesarian Birth (photographs) + 9 MELISSA MONRO! Arterial Forceps and Graft, Amputation Instruments, Gamma Knife, Stereotactic Frame, Obstectrical Aids (poems) + 15 DANIELLE OFRI Resistance (Abba Kovner) « 28 SARAH LINDSAY “Seven-Minute” Scrub: Prep Neurosurgery, Valhalla Burn Unit on the Moon Callisto, Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, Flukes (poems) + 42 IAIN BAMFORTH Ernst Weiss, 1882-1940 (introduction) « 47 ERNST WEISS Heart Suture (story) * 54 ALBERT GOLDBARTH Into That Story (poem) * 67 [IAIN BAMFORTH Questions for Chekhov (poem) + 74 MARJORIE PERLOF!I The Return of Robert Lowell (review) + 76 Table of Contents HERBERT LEIBOWITZ Surgery: An Introduction « 7 ALICE ATTIE Inside the Operating Room: A Portfolio “Seven-Minute” Scrub: Prep Neurosurgery Burn: And Awaiting ( iraft Prep: Pediatric Surgery (Kid with Plastic) Closing: Pediatric Neurosurgery Caesarian Birth (photographs) + 9 MELISSA MONRO! Arterial Forceps and Graft, Amputation Instruments, Gamma Knife, Stereotactic Frame, Obstectrical Aids (poems) + 15 DANIELLE OFRI Resistance (Abba Kovner) « 28 SARAH LINDSAY “Seven-Minute” Scrub: Prep Neurosurgery, Valhalla Burn Unit on the Moon Callisto, Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, Flukes (poems) + 42 IAIN BAMFORTH Ernst Weiss, 1882-1940 (introduction) « 47 ERNST WEISS Heart Suture (story) * 54 ALBERT GOLDBARTH Into That Story (poem) * 67 [IAIN BAMFORTH Questions for Chekhov (poem) + 74 MARJORIE PERLOF!I The Return of Robert Lowell (review) + 76 Table of Contents - WILLIAM LOGAN The World Out-Herods Herod (Robert Lowell) « 103 JONATHAN SANTLOFER Duchamp, Kiki of Montparnasse, and Man Ray (pencil on paper) + 146 CHARLES MARTIN Polyphemus, Galatea, and Acis (translation) + 147 DAVID YEZZI Chinese New Year (poem) + 154 JOSEPH HARRISON Catoptric (poem) +» 156 KARL KIRCHWEY “A Policied Exile from the Human Race”: The Achievement of Anthony Hecht (review) * 157 LUCIE BROCK-BROIDO After Raphael, Pyrrhic Victory (poems) * 175 AHARON SHABTAI Hope (poem) + 178 BARBARA THOMPSON Things He Gave Her (story) + 181 JOHN FOyY Eucalyptus Trees (poem) + 187 JON VOLKMER Poetry Love Potions (James Fenton, Robert Pinsky, Edward Hirsch, Kenneth Koch, Frances Mayes, Mark Strand, Greg Kuzma) + 190 CARL PHILLIPS Brocade (poem) + 210 HAMISH IRONSIDE The Possible Child, Waiting to Wake (poems) + 212 6 + Parnassus PAUL MULDOON Zigzag (Marianne Moore) + 213 MARSHA POMERANTZ What Birds Mean When They Say That (poem) + 233 DEBORAH PEASE Storage (poem) * 236 CATHERINE SHEEHY Tuning a Def Ear (review) + 237 MARY KARR A Major (poem) + 247 UMIT SINGH DHUGA Lost and Found, NothingT o Be Done (poems) + 249 ROMARE BEARDEN Show Time (collage) + 251 BARBARA HAMBY Ode to Rock ’n’ Roll (poem) + 252 TODD HEARON One Hell of a Ride (Gh Maxwell) + 254 JON VOLKMER Cutting My Father's Hair (poem) + 270 PRISCILLA BECKER AND ERIC MCHENRY An Exchange + 272 Contributors « 276 Artwork Credits « 281 Index to Volumes 1-26:2 + 282 Cover: MORRIS GRAVES Evening Grosbeak with Acorn Sqush, 1979. Watercolor and tempera, 13 1/4” in diameter. Courtesy of Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York.