Cover: Bacon and Eggs, 1961. Wayne Thiebaud (1920—), American. Oil on canvas. Purchased with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Associated Students of the University of Utah, Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Warshaw, Phyllis Cannon Wattis, and Friends of the Art Museum. Museum # 1973.036. From the Permanent Collection of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. © Wayne Thiebaud. Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.

Western Humanities Review

Volume LX, Number 1

Spring 2006

Poetry

Northern Cross
Taxonomy of Spirits
The Fine and Dying Art of Shaping Light into Words ........ Warren Hatch 5

mutable ................................................................................ Josie Milliken 9

Poem to Get Started .......................................................... Andrew Haley 10

The Angel on the Table ................................................. Jeffrey Harrison 43

Rodin’s Sculptress .............................................................. Lytton Smith 66

Indian Summer
Progress Report
Underground Sex ...................................................... J. Jason Charnesky 67

Imitations after Kavafy
Autopsy ................................................................................ Scott Cairns 70

When Gregory of Nyssa Was Made a Bishop Against His Will
Wheel ............................................................................. Stephen Sandy 82

Midnight on Montealto ............................................. Matthew Pennock 94

The Dream of Saint Ursula
Missing Ursula
Ursula Disparue ...................................................... Maureen Bloomfield 95

Phaëton ................................................................. Gibson Fay-LeBlanc 117

Plat à Décor
The Thicket
Flood Year ...................................................................... Michael White 134

E-town (Elizabeth)
Baldy
Cimarron (Old Aztec Mill Museum) ..................................... John Poch 154

Bobby ........................................................................... Rebecca Okrent 168

Death
The Horror
The Crow Man
The Row ....................................................................... Grace Schulman 172

 

Fiction

Wainwright Exceeds Expectations, Becomes a God ...... Jeffrey S. Chapman 13

Morning, Noon, Night ........................................................ Matthew Batt 24

Last Days .......................................................................... Lorrie Casper 32

Carousel ...................................................................... Frederick Reiken 102

Ahab, After the Whale .......................................................... David Bell 140

Hazor ............................................................................... Margot Singer 180

 

Essays

Kenneth Burke and the Comic Arts of Peace ................. John McGowan 44

Unheard Music ................................................................ Craig Dworkin 74

From A Private History of Awe ............................. Scott Russell Sanders 84

Apparently ............................................................ Stephen-Paul Martin 118

On Friendship and the Ethics of
Contemporary Poetry Criticism ......................... Steve Fellner 156