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“The novel at its best is the most moral of the art forms. You are exploring the interstices of human behavior -- which is the first approach to religious experience for many of us, especially since the organized religions don’t begin to offer sufficient amount of the terrible complexities of moral experience and its dark sibling, moral ambiguity. The wisest rule of thumb for any moralist is: there are no answers. There are only questions.” --   Norman Mailer, The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing (2003)

About the Cover Art

Contributors

Editor's Note

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AnnyNymity, "Shades (if nobody)"

James Beach, "Here's to the Day the Muses Rule"

Joe David Bellamy, "See 7 States from Rock City Atop Beautiful..."

Philip Corner, "Chaos Keyboard"

Hugh Fox, "The Coils of Eternity (part 5)"

Carl Ginsburg, "Rooted Places"

Guy J. Jackson, "Pond"

Lyn Lifshin, "Those Lovers"

Simon Perchik, "**"

Barbara Rosenthal, "God is the Idol of Science"

Jerome Rothenberg, "The Leonardo Project 10+2 (more frames)"

Quotations

Rising Issues

Salutations

Wood Coin History