COVER: Arrangement in Black and Gold: Comte Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac.

James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903). Oil on canvas. Copyright The Frick Collection, New York

Western Humanities Review

Volume LIX, Number 1

Spring 2005

Poetry

A Thief in the Night, or Lettres Philosophiques ............ Richard Howard

Switch ............................................................................. Wendy Scofield

The Passages ..................................................................... Chris Cokinos

The Peter Pan Bus Cycle ...................................................... Sarah White

Guide to an Island City
From The Encyclopedia of Neglected History ................ Andrew Seguin

Rumination Alluding to a Photo of Atget's .................... Philip Kobylarz

The Hopeful Literature of Indecision .................... Craig Morgan Teicher

Shoot the Moon
Desire
Nina Simone Live at Vine Street
Regret Across the Wires
Maps ................................................................................ Rangi McNeil

November 18
Two Kinds of Snow ........................................................ Phillip Sterling

Kubler-Ross: A Preface ................................................... Noah Raizman

Algae
Honey Suckles
The Language of Litter ...................................................... Daniel Wolff

On the Way to a Concert
Phantom Interceptors ................................................... Anthony Hawley

After Li Po
What She Sees ........................................................ Subhashini Kaligotla

On Not Finding You at Home
Dreaming in the Middle of the Week ................................... Billy Collins

Fiction

Hagiography ..................................................................... Stephen Tuttle

Deir Yassin ....................................................................... Margot Singer

Mister Jerry Is a Big One .................................................. Michael Byers

Sugar .................................................................................. Julie Hensley

Restraint ................................................................ Armand M.L. Inezian

Essays

Wittgenstein’s Attire ....................................................... Stephen Lehigh

Language Survival in a Dangerous World .................. Mauricio J. Mixco

“Parts Nicely Opposed”:
Lorine Niedecker’s Emerging Reputation ................ Heather Cass White