ISSUES | summer 1983
6.3 (Summer 1983)
Featuring work by Deb Allerby, Jack Barrack, Ginger Bingham, Jonathan Cohen, Karen Fish, David Groff, Nancy Shields Hardin, John Helton, Jr., Andrew Hudgins, Jerome Kinkowitz, Philip Levine, Robert McNamera, Michael Milburn, R.K. Narayan, Eric Pankey, Ira Sadoff, Gary Soto, Stephen Tapscott, Barry Targan, Jeanie Thompson, and Dan Thrapp.
CONTENT FROM THIS ISSUE
Poetry
Jun 01 1983
Tending the Garden
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Jun 01 1983
Appetite for Poison
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Jun 01 1983
The Reservoir
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Jun 01 1983
Poetry Feature: Jeanie Thompson
“Birch Street: 1960”
“At the Wheeler Wildlife Refuge”
Poetry
Jun 01 1983
Ginseng Root
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Jun 01 1983
When the Water Broke
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Jun 01 1983
Memories of You
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Jun 01 1983
Woodworker
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Jun 01 1983
Catherine of Aragon
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Jun 01 1983
Poetry Feature: Michael Milburn
“For Robert Lowell”
“Bodies”
Poetry
Jun 01 1983
Facing East New Big Sur
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Jun 01 1983
Learning to Bargain
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Jun 01 1983
Poetry Feature: Ginger Bingham
“Airstream Trailer”
“Songs of the Typing School”
“The Calendar at Avery’s”
Reviews
Jun 01 1983
A View of Contemporary English Poetry
When the modern world first became definitively “modern” — that is, in the 1920s — people who saw themselves as apparatchiki of this modernity (I.A. Richards, say) used to speculate on whether poetry had a future, usually with the implication that the question was an open one.
Nonfiction
Jun 01 1983
The Primacy of the Linguistic Medium
In my two previous lectures, I have been talking about what happens to our conception of literature if we allow biography and history to encroach on its just domains, or if we allow a preoccupation with what various readers make of it to determine its meaning and value.
Nonfiction
Jun 01 1983
Neruda in English: The Controversy Over Translation Poetics
The poetry of Pablo Neruda has been appearing in English translation since the mid-thirties. By now, to be sure, he is one of the most widely translated of all modern poets; in fact, such a poem as “Walking Around,” originally published in 1935, has appeared in no fewer than twelve different English versions.
Nonfiction
Jun 01 1983
Betrayed by Jerzy Kosinski
It was Jerzy Kosinski on the phone — an instrument which he uses like a whip — and his shrill voice was snapping out instructions with an intensity which imparted to everything he said an aura of truth and authority.
Nonfiction
Jun 01 1983
Mysore/ Malgudi: R.K. Narayan's World of South India
The story goes that when Somerset Maugham was a guest of the Maharaja of Mysore (while it was still a princely state) he asked: “How is it that I haven’t met Mysore’s famous novelist, Mr. R.K. Narayan?” The Maharaja’s English secretary is reputed to have given the order: “Find out if there is a famous novelist in Mysore. Consult the university vice-chancellor if necessary.”
Nonfiction
Jun 01 1983
Lulu in Rochester: Self-Portrait of an Anti-Star
In 1928 — at the age of 22 — Louise Brooks gave one of the best performances in the silent cinema as Lulu, an amoral woman of pleasure whose character had fascinated German artists since the 1890s. Director G.W. Pabst had searched for his star all over Europe, and he was ready to sign Marlene Dietrich when he heard that Louise Brooks, a refugee from Cherryvale, Kansas, a former Ziegfield girl and rising Paramount star, was willing to take the role. As Brooks recalls, contemporary critics complained that her performance was an utter blank: “Louise Brooks cannot act. She does not suffer. She does nothing.” But, this was precisely the point.
Fiction
Jun 01 1983
A Tiger for Malgudi
We passed through many villages, big small, towards I don’t know where, as I followed my Master; everywhere people made way for us, retreated hurriedly, staring in wonder and disbelief, afraid even to breathe.
Fiction
Jun 01 1983
Down from Coeur d'Alene
At nightfall, when they stopped across the river from Lewiston, Mary Ann was not crying and said she would only be a minute. She got out of the jeep. Kyle put the gun in his belt, zipped up his jacket, and got out after her.
Fiction
Jun 01 1983
About Three Years Ago
When I was thirteen my father got hit by one of those laundry trucks that come around real early in the morning and pick up diapers. Dad was out running before work and I guess it was still pretty dark, so the driver didn’t see him. I heard my Uncle David tell Jummy that he’d been mashed up pretty good and the driver “must have been going at a God-damn quick clip to do something like that.”
Fiction
Jun 01 1983
Caveat Emptor
Joey Rogovin swung in and out of the way of the hard platoon marching like hammers on the Boardwalk. Like one more in the vast undulant sheet of searching pigeons, he would move aside for the rectangle of men and then fold back the wake behind them. And like the pigeons, he was a gleaner too.