Poetry
DONALD HALL 1951 / Gordon of the Grolier Book Shop / Frank O’Hara / Literature / A Story
E.C. HINSEY Photograph, Off the Dry Salvages
MARK IRWIN Sparrow
SASCHA FEINSTEIN Christmas Eve / Coltrane, Coltrane / December Blues
LAWRENCE RAAB Years Later / Envy / The Band Was Still Playing / Figuring It Out / The Best Days
REGINALD SHEPHERD Jouissance
NICOLE COOLEY The Red Shoes
DAVID BARBER “American Forest Scene–Maple Sugaring”
STEPHEN DUNN Heaven / The Song
SUSAN KOLODNY Prayer: Hoh Rainforest / Los Feliz Hills
C. DALE YOUNG Gross Anatomy
Fiction
SHEILA MULLIGAN WEBB Norman and The Live Sex Show
GLEN POURCIAU How Tommy Lee Turned Out Abnormal
DAVID H. LYNN Fortune-Telling
JOANN KOBIN Charity Work
DINITIA SMITH Valentine’s Day
CHARLES WYATT Childhood
JOHN-HENRY DOUCETTE Grow Up to Be Cowboys
Provocations
ROBERTA SMITH Art, Food, and Public Space: Some Reflections
PETER PLAGENS What Happens When American Art Goes Public
Revaluations
MICHAEL WOOD Lolita Revisited
Reports from Abroad
EVE ADLER Living in Moscow: A Letter
Recollections
ANATOLE BROYARD Remembering William Gaddis in the Nineteen-Fifties
DOROTHY NOYES Conversations with My Subconscious Self
Film
P. ADAMS SITNEY The Need for, and the Scandal of, Film in the Curriculum
Performance Pieces
ANDREA OLSEN FarmStories
Book Reviews
BRETT C. MILLIER Further Confessions
DAVID R. SLAVITT Two Jewish Ironists
For the Record
TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS Elements of Love
Contributors’ Notes
COVER ART: Jeff Kaufman