Edited by Bradford Morrow
With a special Music Theater Portfolio, guest-edited by Thalia Field

Maureen Howard, From ALMANAC;
     A Winter's Tale
David Foster Wallace, Two Stories
Julio Cortázar, For Listening Through
     Earphones
Jena Osman, The Character
Joanna Scott, Yip
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Kali
Mike McCormack, Dead Man's Fuel
Susan Gevirtz, From Black Box Cutaway
Gilbert Sorrentino, Things That Have
     Stopped Moving
Elizabeth Willis, Without Pity
Nathaniel Tarn, Burial Plot
Anselm Hollo, From And How On Earth
Can Xue, Homecoming

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SECULAR PSALMS: Music Theater
     Portfolio
Thalia Field, Music Theater: Texts and
     Traces
Harry Partch, The Bewitched: A Ballet
     Satire with an essay, A Somewhat Spoof
Robert Ashley, From Foreign Experiences
Meredith Monk, Our Lady of Late
John Moran, From Everyday Newt Burman
Alice Farley and Henry Threadgill, Erotec
     [the human life of machines]: An
     Interview (with Thalia Field and Bradford
     Morrow)
Ann T. Greene and Leroy Jenkins, From The
     Negros Burial Ground
Ruth E. Margraff, FromWallpaper Psalm
      (an electric & hysteric operetta)
Yasunao Tone, Geography and Music
Neil Bartlett and Nicolas Bloomfield, From
     Lady Into Fox

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Jeffrey Eugenides, Timeshare
Stephen Dixon, The Burial
Barbara Guest, Confession of My Images
Joyce Carol Oates, From The Negro Lover
Jackson Mac Low, Instructing the
     Devouring Locust
Paul West, The Pure, Scalding Light of
     Tombstone, 1881
Toby Olson, Chihuahua
Robert Kelly, The Berlin Sonnets
Mary Caponegro, From Doubt Uncertainty
     Possibility Desire