Editor’s Note
Poetry
RICHARD JACKSON Unauthorized Autobiography
ROBERT PINSKY In the First Circle (a translation of Dante’s Inferno, Canto IV)
BECKIAN FRITZ GOLDBERG The Subject / The Betrayer
LEN ROBERTS What Sins, Now / Thinning the Walnuts
CHARLIE SMITH The Voice / By-Laws / The Business / Wisdom
MARK JARMAN Forgotten Infancy, Kentucky / Good Voices / Remembered Weather
PATRICIA GOEDICKE Look, It’s Poetry!
MARVIN BELL from The Book of the Dead Man
LEIGH PALMER A Scratch
EAMON GRENNAN Angel Looking Away / Falling Asleep / Marginal
CHASE TWICHELL The Devil I Don’t Know / Animal Graves / The Rule of the North Star / Bear on Scale / Stripped Car
CHARD DENIORD Silver Shrine / Romance / The Present / Houses
NANCY WILLARD The Patience of Bathtubs
JAMES TATE Jim Left the Pet Cemetery with a Feeling of Disgust / The Wrong Way Home
LEON STOKESBURY Autumn Rhythm
DAVID YOUNG Chopping Garlic / Poem for Adlai Stevenson and Yellow Jackets
MARIE HOWE A Certain Light / How Some of It Happened / Just Now
PAUL ZIMMER The Longing Season / A Rant Against Losses / The Map
BRIGIT PEGEEN KELLY Three Crows and the Moon
Fiction
JOYCE CAROL OATES Mistaken Identity
MARGE PIERCY Becoming a Mouse
LEE K. ABBOTT On Tuesday, Nothing, On Wednesday Walls
Essays
ALBERT GOLDBARTH Worlds
ANNE STEVENSON The Uses of Prytherch
Interview
BONNIE LYONS, BILL OLIVER An Interview with Leonard Michaels
Monotype
MICHAEL MAZUR Canto IV, The Inferno
Reviews
DAVID GUY The Devil’s Inamorata (On Erica Jong)
HENRY HART Story-tellers, Myth-Makers, Truth-sayers (On Louise Glück, Sydney Lea, Mary Jo Salter, Charles Simic, and Grace Paley)
Contributors’ Notes
COVER ART: Jeff Kaufman