Summer/Fall 2000
New Series · Volume XXII Number 3/4

contents

Fiction

• Michael Dahlie • The Begging Chair
• Corinne Demas • In Memory of a Lovely Afternoon
• Elizabeth Denton • To Die For
• Yvonne A. Jackson • Style
• Anesa Miller • These Things Happen
  
  

• Michael Wood • Broken Dates: Fiction and the Century

Poetry

• K. E. Allen • Cicadas; O’Dowd's Fields
• Nuar Alsadir • Bats; Deposit; The Garden; Aperture
• John Ashbery • Befuddled; Variations on "La Folia"
• Mary Jo Bang • Travel is Easy by Train; Kiss, Kiss, Said Louise by Way of a Pay Phone; Does Mrs. Hunt Tear Linen Straight as Ever?
• Robert Bly • The Wagon and the Cliff
• Maudelle Driskell • The Propaganda of Memory
• John Engels • Adam Imagines Moving
• Árpád Farkas, translated by Paul Sohar • Our Reserves
• Mordechai Geldman, translated by Tsipi Keller • Abused Neighbor
• Robert Gibb • Pictures at an Exhibition; Pittsburghesque, ca. 1949
• László Király, translated by Paul Sohar • Anabasis
• William Logan • Ca d’Oro; Open Day at the Natural History Museum
• Thomas Lux • The Magma Chamber; A Library of Skulls
• Claire Malroux, translated by Marilyn Hacker • Saint-Lieux: The Stream Near the Village; Summers Before the War
• Khaled Mattawa • from Echoes & Elixirs 1, 3, 7, 11
• Wesley McNair • Driving North in Winter
• Judith Moffett • Decade-Birthday Verses for James Merrill
• Linda Pastan • The Crossing
• Carl Phillips • The Pinnacle and three others
• Donald Platt • Contact Points
• Stanley Plumly • Comment on Thom Gunn's In Santa Maria Del Popolo; In the Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague
• Boyer Rickel • Nude Beach
• Len Roberts • Flicking the Switch
• Natasha Sajé • Reading Henry Fowler's Modern English Usage in Salt Lake City in November; Bend
• Mark Scott • Every Drift
• Jeffrey Skinner • Prodigal
• Charlie Smith • Heroin; Kicking
• R. T. Smith • Downy
• Kevin Stein • Confessional
• Roberta Swann • Windfall
• Michael Van Walleghen • The Ex
  

Reviews

• David Bergman • Marketing Poetry

  The Ghost of Tradition: Expansive Poetry and Postmodernism by Kevin Walzer

• Theodore O. Mason, Jr. • The Powers and Pleasures of This Language

  The Rise and Fall of English: Reconstructing English as a Discipline by Robert Scholes

• Jay Rogoff • Credentials

  Halfway Down the Hall: New and Selected Poems by Rachel Hadas; Relations: New and Selected Poems by Eamon Grennan; The Wild Card: Selected Poems, Early and Late by Karl Shapiro

• Michael Thurston • The Substance of the Island: W. S. Merwin's Lyrical Epic

The Folding Cliffs: A Narrative by W. S. Merwin

• Andrew Zawacki • The Mirror Has No Depth

  Trace Elements by Barbara Jordan