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          On Craftsmanship (essay) & 1991 State of Human Rights Address

          By Jimmy Carter
          The Visitation of God; The Leaf Blower among the Swimming Pool Lights; E...
          Poetry

          The Visitation of God; The Leaf Blower among the Swimming Pool Lights; E...

          By David Woo
          First Aid
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          By T Cooper
          Teaching Ecopoetry in a Time of Climate Change
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          Teaching Ecopoetry in a Time of Climate Change

          By Craig Santos Perez
          The Lonely Ruralist
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          The Lonely Ruralist

          By Janisse Ray
          Influenza 1918
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          Influenza 1918

          By Jane Brox
          Itō Grows Ill, A Bird Transforms into a Blossom, and The Giant Trees St...
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          Itō Grows Ill, A Bird Transforms into a Blossom, and The Giant Trees St...

          By Hiromi Itō
          Jerry’s Dirt

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          [Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...

          By Jacob Baynham
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        • Beverly’s Athens: Beverly Buchanan in Athens, GA, 1987–2010 (with an introduction...

          Beverly’s Athens: Beverly Buchanan in Athens, GA, 1987–2010 (with an introduction...

          By Beverly Buchanan
          At Home in the World

          At Home in the World

          By José Parlá
          Devotions in Light and Shadow

          Devotions in Light and Shadow

          By Nadezda Nikolova
          Soft Machines, Tough Love

          Soft Machines, Tough Love

          By Victoria Dugger
          Portraits from Another New South

          Portraits from Another New South

          By Tommy Kha
          Fission or, Eclipse  (with an introduction by Katie Geha)

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          By Rose Salane
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          on Acts by Spencer Reece

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          By Okwudili Nebeolisa
          on Crisis Actor by Declan Ryan

          on Crisis Actor by Declan Ryan

          By Erick Verran
          on The Anthropologists by Ayşegül Savaş

          on The Anthropologists by Ayşegül Savaş

          By Jonathan Russell Clark
          The Thrill of Rupture with Two Irish Poets (on Trevor Joyce’s Conspiracy and Randolph...

          The Thrill of Rupture with Two Irish Poets (on Trevor Joyce’s Conspiracy and Randolph...

          By Marthine Satris
          on On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, directed by Rungano Nyoni

          on On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, directed by Rungano Nyoni

          By Tope Folarin
          on S Is For by William Archila

          on S Is For by William Archila

          By Brent Ameneyro
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Short Fiction in the Eighties (on Under the Wheat by Rick DeMarinis; The Lover of Horses by Tess Gallagher; Going to See the Leaves by Linda Collins; Tigers in the Wood by Rebecca Kavaler; & Dancing in the Movies by Robert Boswell)

By Greg Johnson
From the Summer 1987 Issue

Greg Johnson, whose reviews have appeared regularly in our pages across many years, has published two novels, five collections of short stories, and several volumes of nonfiction. He lives in Atlanta and teaches in the graduate writing program at Kennesaw State University.

← Realism, Death, and Philosophy (on Talking to Strangers by Patricia Dobler; Day of The Body by Carol Frost; Skating with Heather Grace by Thomas Lynch; The Language Student by Bin Ramke; As Long As You’re Happy by Jack Myers) → The Dialogic Self (on The Formal Method in Literary Scholarship by M. M. Bakhtin, P. M. Medvedev, Albert Wehrle, and Wlad Godzich; Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics. Theory and History of Literature Series #8 by M. M. Bakhtin, P. M. Medvedev, and Caryl Emerson; Mikhail Bakhtin: The Dialogic Principle. Theory and History of Literature Series #13 by Tzvetan Todorov and Wlad Godzich; Mikhail Bakhtin by Katerina Clark and Michael Holquist; The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays By Mikhail Bakhtin by Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist; & Rabelais and His World by Mikhail Bakhtin and Helene Iswolsky)

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