Summer/Fall 1997
New Series · Volume XIX Number 3/4

contents

POETRY

• Jorie Graham • Manteau; So Sure of Nowhere Buying Times to Come
• Laurie Sheck • Wall-Writing; Summer Storm
• Steve Orlen • God's Mistakes; Elegy for Steve Ferriera
• Bob Kaven • Drams and Scruples; What Happened Here is Hank Williams Died Here in 1948
• Christopher Buckley • Vacuum Genesis
• Joseph Harrison • Variations on a Theme by the Weather
• Laurie Kutchins • September First; Think
• Lynne McMahon • October 31; Augury; On Receiving a Pair of Chinese Therapeutic Balls
• Herbert Scott • November; Late Fall, Rain
• Carol Frost • Rural Weather; A Good Night's Sleep; Waking
• Robert Dana • Some Interior Room
• Rachel Hadas • Pomegranate Variations
• M.E. Caballero-Robb • Hummingbird Garden
• Laurence Lieberman • Robbing the Queenies
• Mark Rudman • Joan and Jean
• Chase Twichell • Private Airplane; Saint Animal; The Innocent One
• Kimiko Hahan • Mosquito and Ant
• Elizabeth Spires • I Dreamed a Dream; Two Chairs on a Hillside
• Arlene Keizer • Bud
• Greg Delanty • The Cure; Detour
• Liz Rosenberg • I Will Not Be Moved
• Anonymous • Six Untitled Vietnamese Folk Poems (Translated by Linh Dinh)
• Richard Tillinghast • Tea
• Lance Larsen • Peach
• Laura Kasischke • Sad Song; Gas Chamber at San Quentin
• Albert Goldbarth • ***!!!The Battle of the Century!!!***
• Dionisio D. Martinez • The Prodigal Son in His Own Words; Credo
• Robert Wrigley • The Reign of Snakes
• Peter Cooley • God Comes in a Dream to Cure a Supplicant
• Timothy Liu • Power; The Presence of an Absence in a Midwest Town
• Dorianne Laux • Firestarter; Prayer
• Bruce Weigl • The Singing and the Dancing; Praise Wound Dirt Skin Sky in the Place of Emperors; The Inexplicable Abandonment of Habit in Eclipse
• Kathy Fagan • Sign; Driving It

FICTION

• Joan Connor • Crow
• Elmo Valencia • The Human Universe (Translated by Elizabeth Bell)

EsSays

• Tony Kushner • Notes about Political Theater
• Joyce Carol Oates • In Olden Times, When Wishing Was Having...
• André Béteille • My Two Grandmothers

Reviews

• David Baker • Hieroglyphs of Erasure: Adventures in Ancient Egypt by Albert Goldbarth
• James McCorkle • Donald Justice: The Artist Orpheus: New and Selected Poems
• Willard Spiegelman • Scholarly Designs: Poetry and Criticism, 1940-1995 by Robert von Hallberg, Evan Carton, and Gerard Graff

KENYON REVIEW CLASSIC: W.S. Merwin

• David St. John • The Last Troubadour (commentary)
• W.S. Merwin • Ballad of John Cable and Three Gentlemen; five other poems