ISSUES | summer 1987
10.2 (Summer 1987)
Featuring the work of Will Baker, Steve Bauer, Don Bogen, Richard Cecil, Alice Denham, Richard Dokey, Robert Farnsworth, Anne Fleming, Sandra Gilbert, Brenda Hillman, Andrew Hudgins, T. R. Hummer, Robert Juarroz, Jackson Lears, Philip Levine, Gardner McFall, Pablo Neruda, Lowrey Pei, Joanna Scott, Arthur Smith, Dave Smith, Maura Stanton, D. E. Steward, Henry David Thoreau, Barton Wilcox, Alan Williamson, Anne Winters…and an interview with Richard Ford.
CONTENT FROM THIS ISSUE
Nonfiction
Jun 01 1987
How Deep the Hook
My first job, green out of college, was as chief reporter for the Idaho Free Press, circulation 6,000. I handled obituaries, city hall, school board, and the sports page. In the… read more
Poetry
Jun 01 1987
Poetry Feature: Philip Levine
“The Rat of Faith”
“Bitterness”
Poetry
Jun 01 1987
Seaweed (Algas Del Oceano)
The text of this poem is currently not available online.
Nonfiction
Jun 01 1987
Fly Fishing at Absolute Zero
At the bends, the creek is slow and dark. Elsewhere it breaks into rapids, and smooth stones are visible under the wobbling clearness. The stones are jade, chalk, and all shades of brown–from buffalo to eggshell.
Poetry
Jun 01 1987
Walking Home in the Rain
The full text of this poem is currently not available online.
Fiction
Jun 01 1987
Wise Virigin
The lycee girl waits. There is only one at once, I guess they must take turns. Her level, level stare. Is this a joke? Some sort of ethnology or psychology laboratory they are running for a project they must do in school?
Poetry
Jun 01 1987
Poetry Feature: Gardner McFall
“Field Trip to Fort Story”
“Four Corners”
“Missing”
“Blue Raft”
“Identity”
Poetry
Jun 01 1987
The Freedom of the Press
The full text of this poem is currently not available online.
Fiction
Jun 01 1987
Pigeons
Mrs. Dewar di the talking. She said, “Acquisition is the real beginning of heartbreak.”
Nonfiction
Jun 01 1987
Craft Non-Lecture
This craft non-lecture has a curious history, which requires a little background if it is to make sense. I wrote a lecture on the state of poetry to be delivered in Iowa City earlier this year; the audience would have been a large collection of poetry brats and elder statespersons, people who took themselves with great seriousness and were very assured about their position in poetry.
Fiction
Jun 01 1987
The Professional Thief
My moment of truth, said Steadman, was when I told them how rich my family was, and I got in the fraternity. Steadman found what we photographers discover–pleasing composition.
Poetry
Jun 01 1987
Psalm Against Psalms
The full text of this poem is currently not available online.
Fiction
Jun 01 1987
The Shopper
When his wife died John Tilden sold the house and moved into an apartment across town. It was a nice apartment near a neighborhood park like those one finds scattered through every city. A bus stopped at the corner.
Poetry
Jun 01 1987
How Deep the Hook
My first job out of college, was as a chief reporter for the Idaho Free Press, circulation 6,000. I handled obituaries, city hall, school board, and sports page.
Poetry
Jun 01 1987
Pearl
The full text of this poem is currently not available online.
Fiction
Jun 01 1987
Reflections on a Child's Water Wheel
Henry David Thoreau’s remark in Walden that he had for a long time been a “reporter to a journal, of no very wide circulation,” was a fairly grim private joke. Since leaving… read more
Poetry
Jun 01 1987
Festival of Weaving Maiden
The full text of this poem is currently not available online.
Fiction
Jun 01 1987
from The Closest Possible Union
How many species? Surely as many as there are stars in the heavens, from live glued onto a strand of hair to powerful gnats which can pierce a mans boot, from aphid cows enslaved by ants to weevils napping comfortably inside curled poplar leaves.
Poetry
Jun 01 1987
Hint of Spring
The full text of this poem is currently not available online.
Nonfiction
Jun 01 1987
On Love and Space
“Love is a property of the space between two people”: I find this sentence in a copy of a letter I wrote to a friend.
Poetry
Jun 01 1987
The Grocery Store
The full text of this poem is currently not available online.
Poetry
Jun 01 1987
Landscape for an Antique Clock
The full text of this poem is currently not available online.
Poetry
Jun 01 1987
from Vertical Poetry
The text of this poem is currently not available online.
Poetry
Jun 01 1987
Poetry Feature: Dave Smith
“Local Color”
“Sexual Odor”
Interviews
Jun 01 1987
An Interview with Richard Ford
The full text of this interview is currently not available online.
Poetry
Jun 01 1987
The Recital
The full text of this poem is currently not available online.
Poetry
Jun 01 1987
In Far Light, The Kinship of Sisters
The full text of this poem is currently not available online.
Poetry
Jun 01 1987
Poetry Feature: Sandra Gilbert
“2085”
“Grandpa”
Poetry
Jun 01 1987
From An Airplane
The full text of this poem is currently not available online.
Fiction
Jun 01 1987
Ferguson's Wagon
Everybody who knew about it–and that was everyone in Breemsburg–told somebody else about the Ferguson place. Inquisitive Saturday or Sunday afternoon guests might even be loaded into the car and driven by the Fergusons just to save the explanation.
Nonfiction
Jan 01 1987
In Control: The Ad Man VS. The Body
I want to begin in the spirit of advertising, with a startling revelation about body odor. As late as 1930, deoderant useres had to follow difficult and cumbersome procedure, particularly if they used Odorono, the earliest and up to then the most successful product in the field.