Poetry
CAROL FROST Pear Tree / Oblivion
KIMBERLY JOHNSON Trouble, Fleet and Light of Wing / Squall Line / Divine, Dredge
KARL KIRCHWEY The Moons of Jupiter / Maculate Beauty / Quonquont
MATTHEA HARVEY The Festival of Giovedi Grasso
JENNIFER TONGE Invitation
LINDA GREGERSON Petrarchan
GERI DORAN Blue Moon
AMY DRYANSKY Aboard
ANDRES ROJAS The Seasons of the Dead / Watercolors at Year’s End
Fiction
CORNERLIA NIXON A Solo Performance
GLEN POURCIAU Mr. Leon
ALEXEI BAYER Solomon Levitan: A Life in Four Scenes
CASTLE FREEMAN, JR. Another Part of the Present
MILSON WILSON Blue Sky Blue
Performance Pieces
ANTON CHECKHOV On the Harmfulness of Tobacco (translated by Michael R. Katz)
Revaluations
MARCUS KLEIN William Styron’s Life and Work
Rediscoveries
GUGLIELMO FERRERO The Conditions of Modernity
Recollections
JOANNE JACOBSON My Father, Reading
Letters from Abroad
ZHU HONG Back in Beijing
Special Feature: AWP Intro Awards
INTRODUCTION
CHRISTOPHER MILLER Manic-Depressive with Psychotic Features
LUISA VILLANI Origins of the Poem
MICHAEL LAUGHTER Gaiety Burlesque, January 1978
J. RHOADS-PETERSON Tree of Heaven
PATRICIA WAGNER Wenceslas Square
WINNERS’ NOTES
Reader’s Notebook
RACHEL HADAS On Poetry Anthologies
Literary Curiosities
DAVID R. SLAVITT A Nuptial Cento Modeled on that of Decius Magnus Ausonius (310 A.D. -ca. 394 A.D.)
Reviews
JUDITH GROSSMAN Broken Silence: Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
VICTOR LUFTIG And There Was Always the Theatre: W.B. Yeats: A Life. Volume I: The Apprentice Mage, 1865-1914 by R.F. Foster
MOLLY MAGID HOAGLAND Not Here at The New Yorker: Here But Not Here
Contributors’ Notes
COVER ART: Tod Gunter