Spring 1997
New Series · Volume XIX Number 2

contents

POETRY

• Charles Wright • Basic Dialogue; Stray Paragraphs in April, Year of the Rat; A Bad Memory Makes You a Metaphysician, A Good One Makes You a Saint
• David Bottoms • On Methodist Hill and other poems
• Renée Ashley • Poems About the Cages with a Sentence from Wallace Stevens; The Revisionist's Dream (I); The Revisionist's Dream (III)
• Jane Hirshfield • Spell to be said After Illness; Broken-Off Twig Budding Out in the Path; Orange Oil in the Darkness
• Rosa Alcalá • Apology; Es Todo Llegar A Cantar; To Begin Singing is Everything - poetry translated by the author
• Rosa Alcalá • Farewell; The Floating Post Office; "Lo, A Tint Cashmere! / Lo, A Rose!"
• Stan Savel Rubin • Baksheesh
• Donald Revell • No Difference I Know The Are; Thanksgiving for a Son
• Charles Simic • Ancient Divinities; The Wake; Mummy's Curse
• Alexander Thorburn • The Piñata; The Woods
• Edward Hirsch • Husband and Wife; A Fundamentalist
• Mark Irwin • Horse; Elk
• Mary Jane Nealon • The Ship Under the Foot of the Elephant; Tagged
• Jennifer O'Grady • Stillborn; White; Definitions Containing Loss
• Ann Keniston • 1961; Our Alliance
• Robert Thomas • Plush Fire
• Irving Feldman • Movietime
• Trent Busch • Newspaper Photograph; The Vase of Flowers
• Richard Chess • Broken Vessels

FICTION

• Reginald McKnight • He Sleeps
• Tess Gallagher • My Gun
• Nancy Zafris • Feeding The Stick
• Alyce Miller • African Queen
• Ruth Hamel • Myra

EsSays

• Andre Dubus • A Hemingway Story
• Anthony Winner • Story's Gamble with History

KENYON REVIEW CLASSIC: wILLIAM EMPSON

• Christopher Ricks • Criticism Untrammeled (commentary)
• William Empson • The Verbal Analysis (essay)