ISSUES | spring 1979
2.2 (Spring 1979)
Featuring work by Jim Barnes, Christopher Buckley, Michael Burkard, Rita Dove, Douglas Delaney, Stephen Dunn, Lynn Emanuel, Jorie Graham, Albert Guerard, Denis Johnson, Lawrence Kearney, Shimaki Kensaku, Jascha Kessler, Peter Klappert, Elizabeth Libbey, Askold Melnyczuk, Carol Muske, Tomi Nagai, Howard Nelson, David Ohle, Sharon Olds, Steve Orlen, Dennis Saleh, Sherod Santos, John Skoyles, Gary Soto, Elizabeth Spires, Pamela Stewart, Mary Swander, Gordon Weaver, Franz Wright, Christine Zawadiwsky and criticism by Garrett Stewart, David Fite, and Merle Brown.
CONTENT FROM THIS ISSUE
Poetry
Mar 01 1979
One in the Hand
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Mar 01 1979
Tired Eyes
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Mar 01 1979
Hard Work
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Mar 01 1979
Poetry Feature: Elizabeth Libbey
“Leda in the Suburbs”
“The Exile”
Poetry
Mar 01 1979
Evreux Burning, Louviers Burning, Rouen Burning
This poem is not currently available online.
Criticism
Mar 01 1979
Forster's Epistemology of Dying
This critique is not currently available online.
Poetry
Mar 01 1979
Sarah Bitterfield: Poem from a Woman's Dream Journal
This poem is not currently available online.
Fiction
Mar 01 1979
Aeaea
The Three Virgins, they called us at Vassar. I don’t know, even now, if we were wise or foolish. But we’ve each seen something of life: one in New York, one in Chicago, and one in Beverly Hills. We meet up often enough, passing over this wide wilderness, to and from on the career trails, the marriage and separation trails, wandering from sacking and slaughter with our booty, from conquest and humiliations, wedding banquets and sanatoria, fatfarms, dude ranches and communes, islands en route, and adventures.
Poetry
Mar 01 1979
Silentia Lunae
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Mar 01 1979
Poetry Feature: Gary Soto
“The Street”
“TV in Black & White”
Poetry
Mar 01 1979
Poetry Feature: Michael Burkard
“The Unbeautiful Banker”
“Houses at Night”
Poetry
Mar 01 1979
January
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Mar 01 1979
Porcupine
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Mar 01 1979
David Walker (1785-1830)
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Mar 01 1979
Read "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" on a Summer Morning
This poem is not currently available online.
Fiction
Mar 01 1979
Dreaming Ninety Years
This story is not currently available online. I dreamed Ward Booth was speaking to me, telling me the whole story of his ninety years of life, and I stood somewhere… read more
Criticism
Mar 01 1979
The Authentic Duplicity of Thom Gunn's Recent Poetry
This critique is currently not available online.
Criticism
Mar 01 1979
John Ashbery: The Effort to Make Sense
This critique is currently not available online.
Poetry
Mar 01 1979
The Fault
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Mar 01 1979
Last Night Here or Anywhere
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Mar 01 1979
Poetry Feature: Lawrence Kearney
“Someone Else’s Story”
“A Little Onion Music”
Poetry
Mar 01 1979
Quay
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Mar 01 1979
Poetry Feature: Stephen Dunn
“From the Monastery of Work and Love — From an Upstairs Window”
“After Losses”
Poetry
Mar 01 1979
Now
This poem is not currently available online.
Nonfiction
Mar 01 1979
Paris: 1973
This story is not currently available online. The imagination may accept the certainty of everyone’s death but one’s own.
Poetry
Mar 01 1979
Accidental Weather
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Mar 01 1979
My Father's House
This poem is not currently available online.
Fiction
Mar 01 1979
This story is not currently available online. I dreamed Ward Booth was speaking to me, telling me the whole story of his ninety years of life, and I stood somewhere… read more
Poetry
Mar 01 1979
The Nurse with White Hair and Her Slow Poisons
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Mar 01 1979
Poetry Feature: Tomi Nagai
“The Rabbit in the Moon”
“Collecting White Radish”
“The Calligrapher”
Poetry
Mar 01 1979
Photograph of the Girl
This poem is not currently available online.
Fiction
Mar 01 1979
In the Old Country
1. Votaries (I)
Shortly before my eigteenth birthday, when my uncle learned how to crawl, thereby freeing me of my duties as a male nurse, I walked out into the night to find the Old Country.
Poetry
Mar 01 1979
Robinson Crusoe Who Was a Poet
This poem is not currently available online.
Fiction
Mar 01 1979
'06
This story is available via the PDF link below. On Wednesday, Hunyadi Janos, vendor of pharmaceuticals, appeared at noon on the corner of 10th and Dockery. In his hand-made cart… read more
Fiction
Mar 01 1979
The Wasps
This story is not currently available online. Some lively visitors to my sickroom in early summer were the wasps. Certainly the stately, dashing appearance of the wasps befitted the forerunners… read more
Poetry
Mar 01 1979
Poetry Feature: Dennis Saleh
“Zippers”