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Volume 43, Issue 3
THERE IS CONSIDERABLE distance between CM. Mayo's kind of whale-watching and Ishmael and Ahab s, especially if Fred Bernard is right in suggesting that Melville's characters are not who we think they are. And then, as Jeremy Greenfield's introduction promises, "There are three stories in Longitude at Sea!" The ocean is one enormous and perpetual displacement, but there are other kinds, too. Xiao Xiaoda, deported prisoner of the Cultural Revolution, finds an instant of food, wine and love at a dislocated Spring Festival. Disembodied opera fills Paula Specks heating ducts. And our own year of profound dis placement is marked in Ann Lauterbachs remembrance of September 11,2001.
—David Lenson, for the Editors
Entries
nonfiction
Lay Thine Hand Upon Him
By C.M. Mayo
fiction
The Flower Carriers
By Jan Conn
nonfiction
The Question of Race in 'Moby-Dick'
By Fred Bernard
poetry
Longitude at Sea: a novel in verse
By Jeremy Greenfield
fiction
Only Opera
By Paula Speck
poetry
The Two Franzes
By Melvin Jules Bukiet
poetry
For My Father; For My Father on Poetry
By Jennifer Tseng
poetry
Devil's Trill
By Xiaoda Xiao
art
Helmets
By Kevin Bowen
fiction
It's Friday
By Tom Wayman
poetry
It Loses Its Grandeur
By Molly Fitzsimons
poetry
What Is a Day
By Ann Lauterbach
nonfiction
It is Enough; Closer Still
By Elizabeth Meyersohn
Table of Contents
Lay Thine Hand Upon Him, Fiction by C.M. Mayo
The Flower Carriers, Poetry by Jan Conn
The Question of Race in 'Moby-Dick',
Non-Fiction by Fred Bernard
Longitude at Sea: a novel in verse,
Fiction by Jeremy Greenfield
Only Opera,
Non-Fiction by Paula Speck
The Two Franzes, Fiction by Melvin Jules Bukiet
For My Father; For My Father on Poetry,
Poetry by Jennifer Tseng
Devil's Trill,
Non-Fiction by Xiaoda Xiao
Helmets, Poetry by Kevin Bowen
It's Friday, Poetry by Tom Wayman
It Loses Its Grandeur, Fiction by Molly Fitzsimons
What Is a Day, Non-Fiction by Ann Lauterbach
It is Enough; Closer Still,
Cover Art by Elizabeth Meyersohn
