ISSUES | fall 1997
20.2 (Fall 1997): "Rituals"
Featuring work by Aimee Bender, Michael Byers, Colin Hamilton, William Herman, Nick Hershenow, Bob Kaven, Jesse Kercheval, David Kirby, Elizabeth Kirschner, Molly McNett, Barbara Sutton, an interview with Susan Fromberg Schaeffer and a “Found Text” by Tennessee Williams.
CONTENT FROM THIS ISSUE
Foreword
Sep 01 1997
Foreword
The Found Text feature in this issue is a never-before-published, full-length play by Tennessee Williams, Will Mr. Merriwether Return from Memphis? It seems especially appropriate for The Missouri Review to be… read more
Fiction
Sep 01 1997
Sentinel
Across the river the chef de poste turns up his boom box, and frantic and repetitive music crosses the water. A noise to shatter the serenity of the tropical evening,… read more
Poetry
Sep 01 1997
The World Conceived in Black and White
This poem is not currently available online.
Fiction
Sep 01 1997
Wizard
You could tell the Players Theater in Eugene had been a glamorous place in its prime, maybe back in the thirties—the chandeliers still spun in the lobby, and the big… read more
Nonfiction
Sep 01 1997
Space, July 1969
This essay is not currently available online. July 1969 When I was growing up, I lived next door to Cape Kennedy, in Cocoa, Florida, a town built for tired aerospace… read more
Poetry
Sep 01 1997
The Old Bear
Nelson Candy says he saw him cross the snowmobile trail which divides the field he recently hayed. “A white nose like an old dog’s,” he insists. They were… read more
Poetry
Sep 01 1997
The Great Panjandrum of Confinement
This poem is not currently available online.
Fiction
Sep 01 1997
The Rememberer
[This text is also available online as part of our TextBox anthology.] MY LOVER IS experiencing reverse evolution. I tell no one. I don’t know how it happened, only… read more
Fiction
Sep 01 1997
Bactine
This story is not currently available. It was her skin that she loved the most. It was clear, even-toned, dewy! She would stroke it, knead it, pull a pinch away… read more
Fiction
Sep 01 1997
That Lamoka Lake Feeling
This story is not currently available online. My mother carried huge pocketbooks with everything in the world in them but money. When she got a new pocketbook it was a… read more
Poetry
Sep 01 1997
The Music of the Mares
That winter I hauled frozen water buckets from the stalls to my stove, then warmed myself while listening to the aural sighs of wind coming through rag-jammed windows. After… read more
Poetry
Sep 01 1997
Root
That night, Lily and her mother are home alone. Tom has gone to play poker with Ivan and the men. Gloria knows Ivan will clean him out, but has… read more
Interviews
Sep 01 1997
Interview with Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
This interview is not currently available online. Interviewer: What kind of response did you get from your family to the idea of your being a writer? Schaeffer: What a horrible,… read more
Poetry
Sep 01 1997
Bloom School
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Sep 01 1997
Aubade
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Sep 01 1997
A Time Capsule
This poem is not currently available online.
Found Text
Sep 01 1997
Will Mr. Merriwether Return from Memphis?
This “Found Text” is not currently available online. A never-before-published, full-length play by Tennessee Williams.
Poetry
Sep 01 1997
The Memory Palace
for there is no place that does not see you. —Rilke THE DOORKNOB extends a hand in greeting. Like your hand, it’s scarred. When you shake it,… read more
Fiction
Sep 01 1997
Pain
I’m starting her story here because of her attachment to looking into things, her penchant for gazing into closed-off spaces. The MRI sections of her pelvis—a panel of pictures… read more
Nonfiction
Sep 01 1997
The Secret Lives of Books
This essay is not currently available online. All last summer I went to a local housing project every Wednesday afternoon to read to a group of children. With one or… read more