ISSUES | fall 1982

6.1 (Fall 1982)
Featuring work by Lee K. Abbot, Jr., Agha Shaid Ali, Anthony Caputi, Edison Dupree, Stephen Dunn, James Galvin, Jorie Graham, Joyce James, Yusef Komunyakaa, William Matthews, Stephen Minot, Julia Mishkin, Carole Muske, David Ohle, Sharon Olds, Stanley Plumly, Judith Root, L.M. Rosenberg, Michael Sheridan, Arthur Smith, Bruce Weigl, Dara Wier, Z. Vance Wilson, David Wojahn… and an interview with Robert Stone and the letters of Ezra Pound.
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CONTENT FROM THIS ISSUE

Poetry
Sep 01 1982
In Winter Light
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Poetry
Sep 01 1982
The Barn
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Poetry
Sep 01 1982
Mercy
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Poetry
Sep 01 1982
The Sin-Eater
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Poetry
Sep 01 1982
The Rule of Participation in Loving an Only Sister
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Poetry
Sep 01 1982
Poetry Feature: Sharon Olds
“Saturn”
“The Partisans and the S.S.”

Poetry
Sep 01 1982
From the Illinois Shore
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Poetry
Sep 01 1982
Copacetic Mingus
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Poetry
Sep 01 1982
We Shall All Be Born Again but We Shall Not All Be Saved
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Poetry
Sep 01 1982
Elegy for a Beagle Mutt
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Poetry
Sep 01 1982
Taxi to the Laundromat
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Poetry
Sep 01 1982
Poetry Feature: James Galvin
“A Poem from the Edge of America”
“Still Here”

Poetry
Sep 01 1982
Poetry Feature: David Wojahn
“Porchlights”
“The Last Couples Leaving the Green Dolphin Bar”

Poetry
Sep 01 1982
Poetry Feature: Agha Shahid Ali
“An Interview with Red Riding Hood, Now No Longer Little”
“The Wolf’s Postscript to ‘Little Red Riding Hood'”

Poetry
Sep 01 1982
De-Icing the Wings
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Poetry
Sep 01 1982
Salmon
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Poetry
Sep 01 1982
An Argument with Wisdom at Montauk
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Poetry
Sep 01 1982
Sonnet
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Poetry
Sep 01 1982
Poetry Feature: Dara Wier
“Holidays”
“Fear”

Criticism
Sep 01 1982
The Primacy of the Author
A colleague of mine has recently published a book which he calls Criticism in the Wilderness. I am not surprised at his title. He might well have decided to call it Criticism on the Battlefield, for ours is a day in which the critics, notoriously a splenetic lot at best, have at each other with hammer and tongs.

Criticism
Sep 01 1982
Sounding the Past: A Discussion wiht Cleanth Brooks
In the spring of 1982, under the auspices of the Paul Anthony Brick Lecture Committee, we were able to interview Professor Brooks. Much to our delight, what began as a highly formal occasion — with tapes and microphones strategically placed chairs — swiftly developed into a relaed and far-ranging discussion of matters launched by the topic of his three lectures: the contemporary state of literary criticism.

History as Literature
Sep 01 1982
Letters of Ezra Pound
In 1915 Ezra Pound was surveying the field of literary journals after the New York lawyer John Quinn offered to help him finance a magazine. The following letter from Pound to Quinn shows how shrewdly Pound assessed the contemporary scene.

Interviews
Sep 01 1982
An Interview with Robert Stone
I find that I’m difficult to satisfy in terms of my own stories. I think I have destroyed many more than I have ever submitted.

Fiction
Sep 01 1982
The Gala Dinner
One thing, at least, was clear: he hadn’t given those long gray years in the candy store for this. Something had gone wrong; somewhere in the project to horde nickels and dimes over years of cokes, banana splits, and chewing gum there was a fraud.

Fiction
Sep 01 1982
Canopic
When touring the Ozarks in ’06 the Govenor learned of a spa, famed for its medicianl baths, and went there. He was greeted by the host and quickly introduced to an array of clay cones, from which gurgled a soapy mud heavily charged with alkali and radium.

Fiction
Sep 01 1982
Music Lover
“It wasn’t any one thing,”she says with an easy shrug. “It’s never just one thing. It was a whole lot of little things pulling me apart — just pulling me to the breaking point.”

Fiction
Sep 01 1982
Stand in a Row and Learn
When I knew him, everybody called him Ears (on account of the obvious), but his true name was Dorcey Eugene Wingo and he liked to speak of himself in the third person, his voice a mostly sing-song instrument of twang and nosework.

Fiction
Sep 01 1982
The Quick and the Dead
The bull was a red Hereford, named Job, we had owned only a week, or perhaps I should say that a week earlier Dad sold us further in debt to the Farmers and Merchants’ Bank.