Cover: Francesco d'Ubertino Verdi, called il Bachiacca (1494-1557), Italian
St. John in the Wilderness, c. 1535, oil on panel.
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah.
Purchased with funds from the Friends of the Art Musuem. Museum #1973.080.005.001 

Western Humanities Review

Volume LIX, Number 2

Fall 2005

Poetry

Pierrot Lunaire ..................................................... Wayne Koestenbaum

Liberation of Dissonance .................................................... Bruce Bond

Before He Moved to Hollywood,
The Child Murderer in Fritz Lang’s M ..................... Bryan Johnson

Since I Can’t Think When
A Valedictory Ode to Kenneth Koch ..................................... Tom Disch

A Suite for James Merrill ..................................................... Henry Sloss

Hannah’s House, Kalvön;
The Year 2000 .......................... Göran Sonnevi, trans. Rika Lesser

The Peonies ............................. Philippe Jaccottet, trans. Judith Bishop

Ithakas ....................................................................... Adam L. Dressler

Retranslating ................................................................ Cynthia Kraman

Villanelle
Again, at San Giorgio degli Schiavoni
My Version: Medieval Acrostic .............................. Jacqueline Osherow

Lot
Cheat .............................................................................. Gregory Fraser

A Tourist At Ellis Island
The Photographer .............................................................. Linda Pastan

Repair
The Bonobites .................................................................. Karl Kirchwey

The Land of the Dead
Speaking English .............................................................. Artis Bernard

A Prince
Alexander’s Grief ...................................................... Marc Woodworth

Spider
A Man Met His Skeleton in a Glass of Milk ................ John McKernan

Fellatio: An Ode
Tuesday Weld ................................................................ Nick Norwood

Annunciation
A Gentleman’s Guide to Fertility
Casting
Forecast ....................................................................... Stephanie Pippin

The Expatriates In-State
The Shit We’re Born Into
Pretty Boys
Wells ........................................................................... Samuel Amadon

A Sitting
Bedside Manner ........................................................ Andrew Gallagher

A Pair of Old Gloves
The Doctor .................................................................. Robert Phillips

Anna
Hart
Leaving This Place ......................................................... Aubrie Marrin

Fiction

The Long Lost Soul of Mabry McKee ................................. Alyson Hagy

The Grand Ballroom ........................................................... John Dalton

In My Lover’s Bedroom ................................... Michael Czyzniejewski

The Silent Men ..................................................................... Peter Rock

Essays

Who Could Have Read The Signs? Politics and Prediction in
Gertrude Stein’s Mrs. Reynolds and Christine Brooke-Rose’s Amalgamemnon ............. Karen R. Lawrence

American Mazl: Yiddish Poets in the New World ................................. Jacqueline Osherow

Chasing Charles Wesley .................................................... Tim Bascom