ISSUES | winter 1986
9.1 (Winter 1986)
Featuring work by Catherine Brady, Joyce Carol Oates, Andrew Hudgins, Kevin McIlvoy, Margaret Edwards, Mary Bush, Christopher Buckley, Carol Muske, James Galvin, Larry Kramer, Michael White, David Wojahn, Arthur Smith, Roberta Spear, Albert Golbarth, James Hejna, Ai, Edward Hirsch, Yusef Komunyakaa, Susan Stewart, Barry Spacks, Wayne Koestenbaum, Richard Robbins, Jay Parini, C.K. Williams, Gary Soto, Stuart Dybek, Laurie Henry, Syndey Lea, Sandor Csoori, Tom McGuane, Kay Bonetti, Carolyne Wright, Mark Crispin Miller, Rushwoth M. Kidder… and an essay by Hank Lazer.
CONTENT FROM THIS ISSUE
Nonfiction
Mar 01 1986
Criticism and the Crisis in American Poetry
This essay is not currently available online.
Nonfiction
Mar 01 1986
Marbles on a Window Ledge
That fall, the trees along Kellog Avenue shed leaves like shreds of brown arithmetic paper.
Nonfiction
Mar 01 1986
Chattering Heads: A Viewer's Campaign Diary, 1984
On November 3, 1983, Dan Rather, having introduced the CBS Evening News and himself with a semi-cordial smile, suddenly tensed up, and made the following grim announcment:
“Syria tonight appears to be making a major new move in Lebanon–a potentially ominous situation–with possible far reaching ramifications for U.S. forces in the area, for Isreal, and for peace in the Middle East and beyond.”
Nonfiction
Mar 01 1986
El Companero Presidente
I wasn’t in Chile during the coup. I had left the country some months before, escaping from Santiago in the midst of one of the by-then daily demonstrations that jammed the downtown area–one day for President Allende, the next day against–which made getting a taxi to the airport a miracle of logistics and luck.
Interviews
Mar 01 1986
An Interview with C.K. Williams
This content is not currently available online.
Interviews
Mar 01 1986
An Interview with Tom McGuane
This content is not currently available online.
Poetry
Mar 01 1986
Poetry Feature: Sandor Csoori
“You Were Still the Sun’s There”
“Summer Haloed”
“Sunday Before Christmas”
“E.K.’s Will”
Poetry
Mar 01 1986
In the Blind: For Tommy, My Oldest Friend
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Mar 01 1986
A Former Dispatcher's Comment
Featuring: A Former Dispatcher’s Comment
Poetry
Mar 01 1986
Benediction
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Mar 01 1986
Crossing Over
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Mar 01 1986
Poetry Feature: C.K. Williams
“Noise: Sinalunga”
“The Fountain”
Poetry
Mar 01 1986
The Function of Winter
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Mar 01 1986
The Oregon Coast
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Mar 01 1986
A Visit
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Mar 01 1986
A Gist
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Mar 01 1986
The Cardinal
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Mar 01 1986
Poetry Feature: Yusef Komunyakaa
“How I See Things”
“Too Pretty for Serious Business”
Poetry
Mar 01 1986
Poetry Feature: Edward Hirsch
“Omen”
“Loon”
Poetry
Mar 01 1986
The Journalist
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Mar 01 1986
Soaps
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Mar 01 1986
Red: The Blue Moo
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Mar 01 1986
Chestnuts for Verdi
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Mar 01 1986
Untitled Canvas
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Mar 01 1986
Lot's Wife
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Mar 01 1986
Thinking of Missouri
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Mar 01 1986
Poetry Feature: Larry Kramer
“Hunter in the Snow”
“A Book of Hours”
Poetry
Mar 01 1986
Not So Much on the Land as in the Wind
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Mar 01 1986
Poetry Feature: Carol Muske
“Solar Machinery”
“Immunity”
Poetry
Mar 01 1986
The Roadrunner
This poem is not currently available online.
Fiction
Mar 01 1986
A Place of Light
“When Robert’c car broke down the second time, he said, “You Kids stay out of my hair. Go across that ditch to those weeds.” Ma leaned her head against the window and looked out.
Fiction
Mar 01 1986
The Find
Three blocks from Eleanor Coney’s apartment was a basement store filled from floor to ceiling with used books. Stacked on wooden crates serving as shelves, piled in the narrow aisles, wedged into cardboard cartons and dumped into disorderly mounds, were mildewed National Geographics, incomplete sets of encyclopedias, frayed Victorian classics….
Fiction
Mar 01 1986
The Cuevas
After the surgery, I pecked the shell enclosing me, though I had no real intention of breaking it.
Sometimes I actually would be asleep; but not most of the time. No one knew for sure, because the doctors had said to my family (I was there): “The brain. The Eyes.”
Fiction
Mar 01 1986
The Yellow House
“Why yellow?” I asked as my Uncle Billy walked out of the garage, carrying two cans of paint. He was wearing a pair of olive-green, fatigue-pant cut-offs, and he was covered from head to foot with flecks of dried-out white paint that had stuck to his sweat-drenched skin.
Fiction
Mar 01 1986
The Jesuit
In those years she believed in God without wanting to examine the belief. She carried the idea of God inside her the way many people carry inside them the thought of their own eventual extinction–it was logical, perhaps even consoling, but it could not be confronted head-on.
Fiction
Mar 01 1986
Daley's Girls
My father came home from work on weeknights long after we had eaten our supper and gotten into our pajamas. The Six of us watched from the living room while he sat at the kitchen table to have his supper.