january I february 2009 Vol. 28 I No. 1
DEPARTMENTS
1 From the Editors
4 Contributors
5 Mailbox
8 Sacred & Mundane
13 Point of View
A Failure to Communicate
RANDY OLSON
Activists should speak their minds,
but they need to consider speaking
for other body parts as well.
14 Making Other Arrangements
72 Reviews
78 Ear to the Ground
80 Coda
Transmutations
PETER FRIEDERICI
COLUMNS
16 From The Faraway Nearby
Elegy for a Toxic Logic
REBECCA SOLNIT
The economic crisis may be the
best opportunity we’ve had in a
long while.
18 Each Other—Where We Are
A Bunny Runs around a Tree
SANDRA STEINGRABER
Pondering self-reliance in the age
of Velcro sneakers.
POEMS
29 Before Fort Clatsop
MICHELLE BONCZEK
37 Suppose You Were a Moray Eel
AIMEE NEZHUKUMATATHIL
49 Duff
ROBERT WRIGLEY
57 Tea
LESLIE HARRISON
