From The Maud Casey. A better place to live / Virginia Heffernan -- Toys in the attic : an ars poetica under the influence / Chase Twichell -- Bodies in the basement : an ars poetica with attitude Russell Banks -- One cheer for melancholy / Susanna Kaysen -- Heaven and nature / Edward Hoagland -- Poodle bed / Darcey Steinke -- From Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen / Larry McMurtry -- Noontime / Lauren Slater -- Fading to gray / Lee Stringer -- From Darkness visible / William Styron -- Strands / Rose Styron -- An unwelcome career / David Karp -- Melancholy and the muse / Ann Beattie -- Ghost in the house / Donald Hall -- Writing the wrongs of identity / Meri Nana-Ama Danquah -- On living behind bars / Nancy Mairs -- From The savage god / A. Alvarez -- Planet No / Lesley Dormen -- A melancholy of mine own / Joshua Wolf Shenk -- The legacy / Martha Manning -- Wish you were here / Nell Casey -- A better place to live / Maud Casey.
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