Contents 										xxvii
CHARLES SIMIC (1938-     )								2056
	Fear 										2056 
	Bestiary for the Fingers of My Right Hand 					2057
	Fork 										2058
	Euclid Avenue 									2058 
	Prodigy 									2059
	My Weariness of Epic Proportions 						2060

JOSEPH BRODSKY (1940-1996) 								2060
	Lullaby of Cape Cod 								2061
		IV: [The change of Empires is intimately tied]				2061
	Belfast Tune 									2062
	A Song 										2063
	In Memory of My Father: Australia 						2064
	At a Lecture 									2064
	To My Daughter 									2065

BHARATI MUKHERJEE (1940-     ) 								2065
	The Management of Grief 							2067

ISABEL ALLENDE (1942-     ) 								2077
	And of Clay Are We Created							2078

JAMAICA KINCAID (1949-     ) 								2084 
	Mariah 										2085

BIBLIOGRAPHY 										2095

ACIINOWLEDGMENTS 									2109