ISSUES | winter 1980
4.2 (Winter 1980)
Featuring work by Gordon Lish, Josephine Jacobsen, Anthony Caputi, Tobias Wolff, Jim Hall, Philip Levine, Garrett Hongo, Michael Pettit, Ellen Bryant Voigt, William Stafford, Laurie Sheck, Debora Greger, Gerald Stern, Maxine Kumin, Stuart Friebert, Cleopatra Mathis, Roger Weingarten, Marilyn Hacker, David Young, Jeffrey L. Duncan, Andrew Hudgins… and an essay by Allen Weir.
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CONTENT FROM THIS ISSUE
Reviews
Dec 01 1980
Recent American Short Fiction
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Nonfiction
Dec 01 1980
"I am Fleeing Double": Duality and Dialectic in the Dream Songs
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Nonfiction
Dec 01 1980
Joining Together/Putting Asunder: An Essay on Emily Dickinson's Poetry
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Poetry
Dec 01 1980
The Self: A Sonnet Sequence
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Poetry
Dec 01 1980
Towards Autumn
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Poetry
Dec 01 1980
Epistolary
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Poetry
Dec 01 1980
Nemesis
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Poetry
Dec 01 1980
Walking Out Into a Storm
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Poetry
Dec 01 1980
Zurich
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Poetry
Dec 01 1980
Poetry Feature: Maxine Kumin
“Anger”
“The Poets Observe the Absence of God from the St. Louis Zoo”
Poetry
Dec 01 1980
Poetry Feature: Debora Greger
“Love Poem”
“A Hermitage”
“321 Normal Street”
Poetry
Dec 01 1980
Simone Weil at le Puy
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Poetry
Dec 01 1980
Ardmore
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Poetry
Dec 01 1980
Poetry Feature: Ellen Bryant Voigt
“Alba”
“Libesgeditch”
Poetry
Dec 01 1980
Without Fear
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Poetry
Dec 01 1980
On the Last Performance of Musume Dojoji at the Nippon-Kan of the Astor Hotel, Seattle Washington
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Poetry
Dec 01 1980
Poetry Feature: Philip Levine
“I Wanted You to Know”
“Depot Bay”
Fiction
Dec 01 1980
Poetic Devices
My language is a freak two-headed fish that lives only in one pond in a remote mountain region. No other two-headed fish exist, and the greatest experts say that my two-headed language has no relatives in the whole world. This fish is Basque.
Fiction
Dec 01 1980
Washing Up
They were doing the dishes, his wife washing while he dried. He’d washed the night before. Unlike most men he knew, he really pitched in on the housework.
Fiction
Dec 01 1980
The Breasts of Young Women
He tossed lines to the girls coming off the dancefloor the way some people feed pigeons, smiling, exuberant, as if the pigeons were really feeding him, or promising to. “Nice number ‘the A-train’.” “You’re looking good. I was watching.” He stood sideways so that he could play his black eyes over both the dancers and those waiting. Through the dancers I could see him talking, always talking, heroic line of his Clark Gable mustache rising and falling.
Fiction
Dec 01 1980
The Couple
She and Mrs. Lupin were on the Poing, and they watched the pair climbing from the Shell Beach — the man in front, his head bent a little forward by the climb, the child behind him, lugging a string bag.
Fiction
Dec 01 1980
Fear: Four Examples
My daughter called from college. She is a good student, excellent grades, is gifted in any number of ways.
Poetry
Feb 01 1980
In These Shadows
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