WHR Volume LVI, Number 2
Fall 2002

Editor’s Note .............................................................................................. 3

Lake .................................................................................. Felicia Olivera 4

Seven Trails: To Build a Crossroads in the West ........ E. Leon Chidester 14

The Mousetrap ...................................................................... Alfred Corn 21

The Showdown
The Marmiton ......................................................... Cassandra Cleghorn 24

The Witness ................................................................... Stephanie Taylor 28

NEW ESSAYS IN POETICS:

The Nth Muse: The Image of Prose in Prose ....................... Aaron Fogel 29

Adorno on Beauty ............................................................. Charles Altieri 80

The Passion of Laocoön: Warfare of the
Religious Against the Poetic Institution .................... Allen Grossman 93