Summer/Fall 1998
New Series · Volume XX Number 3/4

contents

Fiction

• Mark Jacobs • Dove of the Back Streets
• Kathleen Hill • Coming Round
• Chaim Potok • Isabel
• Julian Anderson • The Houses of Double Women
• Jane McCafferty • One Heart

Essay

• Anthony Winner • Authenticity, Authority and Application: Buzatti, Kundera, Gordimer

Translation

• Three Eastern Authors:
  Bada Shanren, Li Shang•yin and Shen Chou • Five Poems
  translated by Arthur Sze

Interview

• William Baer • Still Negotiating with the Images:
  An Interview with Yusef Komunyakaa

Poetry

• Yusef Komunyakaa • Chastity Belt; five others
• Cathy Song • Stink Eye; The Slow Upheaval of Mist; The Sky•Blue Dress
• Arthur Smith • Its Difficult Name; four others
• Charlie Smith • The World as Will and Representation; Day Twenty•four Seven
• Ouyang Jianghe • A Fabricated Notebook about the Market Economy: Excerpts
  translated by Dian Li
• Norman Williams • Now, Until, Because; An Invocation from the Hot Noon of Central Ohio
• Barbara Hamby • Ode to Public Bathrooms; Thinking of Galileo
• Kelly Cherry • three poems from Antigone
• Kathleen Wakefield • Grace Notes; The Swing
• Bruce Smith • February Sky; Drivinâ and Cryinâ
• Jan Richman • Beat Me Daddy Eight to the Bar; Out of Pocket; Shoo Fly Shoo
• Judith Ortiz Cofer • Notes for My Daughter on the Morning of a New Year
• Amy Gerstler • Medicine
• Patricia Hooper • Consultation
• Rebecca McClanahan • Communion
• Leon Stokesbury • Even Now
• David J. Rothman • Breaking the Jug
• Donald Revell • three poems from Arcady
• Jean Valentine • The Welsh Poet; They Lead Me

Drama

• Philip Brooks • Physical History

Reviews

• Rachel Hadas • Four Voices Thinking Out Loud: poetry books by Edward Nobles, John Koethe, Jane Shore, and Judith Baumel
• Don Bogen • Isn't It Romantic?: Sun Under Wood by Robert Hass
• David Wojahn • Survivalist Selves: poetry books by Charles Wright, Brenda Hillman and Larry Levis
• Michael Wood • This, Here, Now: Touch by Gabriel Josipovici
• Hardie St. Martin • The Return of the Galleons: Twentieth•Century Latin American Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology edited by Stephen Tapscott

Kenyon Review Classic

• Robert Lowell
• Richard Tillinghast • Revaluation: Early Poems of Robert Lowell (commentary)
• Robert Lowell • The Cities' Summer Death; seven other poems