Poetry
KATHLEEN LIGNELL The Flight of Quetzalcoatl
H. L. HIX The Last Crows Whose Cries Are Audible Here
F. T. MARINETTI Flying Over the Heart of Italy (Translated by Elizabeth R. Napier and Barbara R. Studholme)
NIKOLAI BAITOV Landscape With Ideas From Dostoevsky (Translated by J. Kates)
THOMAS MCGRATH From Letter to an Imaginary Friend, Part One, Section III, Numbers 4 and 5 / From Letter to and Imaginary Friend, Part Two, Section IV, Number 4 / Love in a Bus / Ode for the American Dead in Asia
RICHARD CHESS Dissolve
RACHEL HADAS The Lost House / Samian Morning / The Reunion
ALBERT GOLDBARTH A Yield
SIDNEY WADE Byzantium / Barn
KATHRYN HALL Café Quadri
IAN GANASSI Virgil’s Aeneid, Book II, Lines 268-297
SIGMAN BYRD Diorama of Medieval Weather / The Enigma of a Day
ROBYN SARAH The Boys in August
BETH ROBERTS The Narrow Escape
MARTHA ELIZABETH Roberta Says the World Has Gone to Plastic
DENNIS O’DRISCOLL The Next Poem / You
KHALED MATTAWA Borrowed Tongue
Fiction
JOHN HAWKES Passages from The Frog
JESÚS GARDEA Like the World (Translated by Mark Schafer)
MICHAEL CARROLL The Information Age
LESLIE PIETRZYK I Want You to Have This Now
WENDY BRENNER Age Twenty-eight
PAUL WITHERINGTON The Porch of Spirits Lingering
PAUL BROWNFIELD This Is Food
Provocations
F. T. MARINETTO Futurist Sensibility and Wireless Imagination (Translated by Elizabeth R. Napier and Barbara R. Studholme)
Literary Criticism
W. S. DI PIERO Politics in Poetry: The Case of Thomas McGrath
MICHAEL MILBURN Robert Lowell’s Poems and Other People’s Prose
Rediscoveries
EDWARD JOHN TRELAWNY Burning Shelley’s Body
Art
MARJORIE LAMBERTI Making Art in the Terezin Concentration Camp
CARL SCHIFFMAN New York Galleries, Late Fall ’95
Reader’s Notebook
DAVID R. SLAVITT Only Disconnet: Poets on Poetry (Kelly Cherry and Anthony Hecht)
Book Reviews
JEFFERSON HUNTER Graham Greene at the Movies
Contributors’ Notes
COVER ART: Jeff Kaufman