Featuring work by Philip Booth, Paul Bowles, Peter Cooley, Wayne Dodd, Norman Dubie, Russel Edson, Stuart Friebert, Carol Frost, Albert Goldbarth, Karl Krolow, William Matthews, Judith Minty, Lisel Mueller, Kathleen Norris, Joyce Carol Oates, Bettina Schmeidel, Louis Simpson, Richard Tillinghast, Alberta Turner, Nancy Willard and criticism by H.N. Schneidau and Marjorie Perloff.
Criticism
"Lines Converging and Crossing": The "French" Phase of William Carlos Williams by Marjorie Perloff
For Interpretation by H.N. Schneidau
Fiction
The Eye by Paul Bowles
Deja Vu by Joyce Carol Oates
Poetry
Poetry Feature: Karl Krolow by Karl Krolow
The Great Wall of China by Norman Dubie
Poetry Feature: Lisel Mueller by Lisel Mueller
For You by Bettina Schmeidel
Poetry Feature: Louis Simpson by Louis Simpson
The Little Mermaid by Kathleen Norris
Poetry Feature: Judith Minty by Judith Minty
Flinching by Philip Booth
From My Life on the Road with Bread and Water by Nancy Willard
Essay in Three Parts: On Poetry by Wayne Dodd
Ellis by Albert Goldbarth
Sovereign Bear by Carol Frost
Return by Richard Tillinghast
A Hairpin Turn Above Reading, Jamaica by William Matthews
How Dark It Is by Stuart Friebert
The Fainting by Russell Edson
Necessary Magic by Alberta Turner
Song of the Idiot by Peter Cooley
