Spring 1998
New Series · Volume XX Number 2

contents

FICTION

• Linda Bamber • The Gross Clinic
• Michael Lowenthal • Do Us Part
• Alice Hoffman • How to Talk to the Dead
• Stephen Millhsuaser • Kaspar Hauser Speaks

ESSAYS

• Daisy Eunyoung Rhau • On Silence
• Amitov Ghosh • The March of the Novel through History: The Testimony of My Grandfather's Bookcase
• Michael Wood •Hidden in the Distance: Reading Calvino Reading

INTERVIEWS

• John Rodden • A Harsh Day's Light:
  An Interview with Marge Piercy
• Dylan Otto Krider • Rooted in a Small Space:
  An Interview with Kazuo Ishiguro

POETRY

• Billy Collins • The Night House
• Robert Dana • Dancing
• Jean Arasanayagam • Chicago
• Rodney Jones • Elegy for the Southern Drawl; Not See Again
• Red Hawk • 2 Ways of Crossing the Creek
• Stephen Corey • Measures
• James McMichael • Above the Red Deep•Water Clays; Posited
• Sydney Lea • Inviting the Moose: A Vision
• Linda Pastan • 43rd Anniversary; The Death of the Bee
• Lisa Russ Spaar • April
• Andrew Hudgins • Hail; The Lake's Ancient Song; Poem
• Sandra Meek • Evolution
• John Witte • Choir Invisible; Porcupine
• Deborah Digges • Lilacs; Pomegranate; Guillotine Windows; The Gardens Offered in Place of My Mother's Dying
• John Kinsella • An Aerial View of Wheatlands in Mid•Autumn
• David Citino • Walking the Mall
• Michael McFee • Goodyear; Vita Brevis
• Kevin Young • Revised Undiscovered Genius of the Mississippi Delta; Olea; Shrine Outside Basquiat's Studio, September 1988; Brothers Sausage; Riddle Me This Batman
• Bruce Beasley • The White Children of Macon
• Colette Inez • Polonaise; Digging in Winter
• Martha Zweig • Hypnagogic; Sick Day
• Marge Piercy • Flying Over the Nebraska of My Life;
  Planting Peas in March Mud
  

REVIEWS

• Jay Rogoff • Heard and Unheard Melodies: In Their Own Voices:
  A Century of Recorded Poetry
  produced by Rebekah Presson and David McLees

KENYON REVIEW CLASSIC

James Merrill

• Rachel Hadas • James Merrill's Early Work: A Revaluation (commentary)
• James Merrill • Ballad of John Cable and Three Gentlemen; five other poems