Winter 1998
New Series · Volume XX Number 1

contents

FICTION

• Cary Holladay • Heaven
• Josip Novakovich • Bruno
• Mike Lohre • What We are Best at
• Randy Nelson • Here's a Shot of Us at the Grand Canyon

 
DRAMA

• Julie Jensen • Deer on a Wire, from Last Lists of My Mad Mother

ESSAYS

• Gordon Hutner • The "Good Reader" and the Bourgeois Critic
• Mira Bartok-Baratta • The Oracle Bone
• Mark Rudman • The Miloz File

POETRY

• Robert Wrigley • Conjure
• Philip Booth • An Old Airman Who Knows Who He Was
• Ellen Cantor • Flesh and Blood; What We Knew
• Robert Gibb • Raising the Blinds
• Eleanor Ross Taylor • Diary Entry, March 24
• George Keithley • Chiaroscuro
• Ann Townsend • Dime Store Erotics; House by a Green Sea
• Albert Goldbarth • The Fiction Shelf
• Stephen Dunn • Riffs & Reciprocities
• A.R. Ammons • Mouvance; Rogue Elephant
• Jesse Lee Kercheval • Last Poem
• Peter Cooley • Incantation
• Campbell McGrath • A Dove; Port Olry; Capitalist Poem #42
• Robert Morgan • Atomic Age; Fire Handling
• Thylias Moss • Ant Farm; Chariots; A Hot Time in a Small Town; Making Dresses
• Stuart Lishan • Songs of Separation
• Bino A. Realuyo • A Night in Dubai
• Deanne Lundin • Poppies; Chicory Seeds
• Olena Kalytiak Davis • As Empty as a Church . . . ; In Defense of Marriage
• Michael Heffernan • Liberty
• Bob Hicok • Waiting for UPS
• Joyce Peseroff • The Loom
• Wislawa Szymborska • A Thank-You Note; Pursuit; To the Heart on Sunday
  translated by Joanna Trzecia

• John Carpenter • Three Polish Poets, Two Nobel Prizes:
  Books of translated poetry by Czeslaw Milosz,
  Anna Swir, and Wislawa Szymborska

KENYON REVIEW CLASSIC
Flannery O'Connor

• Joyce Carol Oates • The Action of Mercy (commentary)
• Flannery O'Connor • The Artificial Nigger (fiction)