Spring 1999
New Series · Volume XXI Number 2

contents

• Nancy Zafris •Stealing the Llama Farm
• Kai Maristed •The Mercenary's Song
• Mario Benedetti •Alter Ego; The Firemen
    translated by Harry Morales
• Arnost Lustig •Kûstka
    translated by Ewald Osers

• Alice Fulton •Fractal Amplifications (essay)
• Gary Pacernick •Staying Power: A Lifetime in Poetry
    an interview with Philip Levine

• Philip Levine •And That Night Clifford Died; four others
• David St. John •Accomplishment; four others
• Dante Alighieri•Purgatory X
    translated by W. S. Merwin
• Jaufre Rudell•Vers
    translated by W. S. Merwin
• Bob Hicok •How Origami Was Invented; What Fine Kindling
    the Homeless Make
• Mary Ann Samyn •Moving Away from an Event; A Short History
    of Anxiety
• Conrad Hilberry •The Good Grief
• Erin Grace Brooks •Badlands
• Jo McDougall •What We Need
• Marilyn Horton-Barrios •In the Madhouse
• Daniel Anderson •The Wasp That's Lately Died
• Eamon Grennan •To Grasp the Nettle; Shock Waves
• Reetika Vazirani •Dream of the Evil Servant
• Miller Williams • The Geography of Time; Waking from a Dream

• Kim McMullen •Imagining Ireland: The "New" Irish Renaissance
    W.B. Yeats : A Life. Vol. 1; The Apprentice Mage 1865-1914
    by R.F. Foster
• Patricia Vigderman •Almost No Center
    Almost No Memory, Break It Down, and The End of the Story,
    all by Lydia Davis

• Kevin Young •Responsible Delight (revaluation: John Berryman)
• John Berryman •Letter to His Brother; Nineteen Thirty-Eight;
    Rock-Study with Wanderer