Poetry
TESS GALLAGHER Black Pudding / Ebony / Blue Grapes
ARTHUR SMITH Harmony / End of the Line
JOSEPH DUEMER Mathematics of Chaotic Systems / Plainsong / Sketch for an Elegy
PETER DESY Sister Mary Lucinda
ROBERT PACK Bounty
IRA SADOFF Above the Cinema Verité: August, 1968 / After My Father’s Death
BURCE BEASLEY The Instrument and Proper Corps of the Soule
DONALD MORRILL The Taken: A Letter
HILLEL SCHWARTZ Walking with Linda and Peter North and West of Troy
GARY YOUNG Five Days: Poems
ALICE KAVOUNAS Home Ground / Instinct
DAVID CLEWELL Do Not Disturb
PETER COOLEY An Ecstasy / the Sea Birds
BRIGIT PEGEEN KELLY Silver Lake
MARVIN BELL At the Writers’ Conference
Fiction
ALICE MATTISON Strawberries
EILEEN POLLACK A Sense of Aesthetics
R.C. BINSTOCK The Passing of Time / To be at Home
FREDERICK HUSCH Extra Extra Large
MAXINE RODBURG Pocahontas in Camelot
Essays
PHILIP LEVINE The Poet in New York in Detroit
HENRY HART Robert Lowell and the Religious Sublime
NANCY WILLARD Close Encounters of the Story Kind
CATHARINE R. STIMPSON My O My O Myra
ROBERT CANTWELL Of Kings’ Treasuries
Interviews
JAY PARINI An Interview with Gore Vidal
CALVIN BEDIENT Interview with Dave Smith on Cuba Night
Reviews
SYDNEY LEA Just Do It, Glop, and Other Foibles (on Galway Kinnell’s When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone)
RICHARD KOSTELANETZ Another Father for Us All (on Karl Kraus)
BRUCE BOND The Unfinished Child: Contradictory Desire in Glück’s Ararat (on Louise Glück)
Contributors’ Notes
COVER ARTIST: Jeff Kaufman