Spring 1987

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I Am the Dust Under Your Feet
Walter Abish

Marvin Gaye Suite
John Taggart

Jumping-jack flash
Leslie Scalapino

Lewis and Morris
Harry Mathews

From A Reading
Beverly Dahlen

Li Santo
Karin Lessing

Three Poems
Clark Coolidge

Chayne of dragons
Gilbert Sorrentino

Finnish Rhapsody
John Ashbery

Materia Prima
Mary Caponegro

Columns
Jan Groover

An Interview
Joseph McElroy and Bradford Morrow

Ark 57, The Gaia Spire
Ronald Johnson

The Nichol Suite
Thomas Meyer

Opening the Eyelid
David Rattray

Three Imagines
Robert Kelly

Holes
James Laughlin

“Meaning Is To Be Here”: A Selection from the Daybook
George Oppen

Three Poems
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

Sex and Character
Bruce Duffy

Two Poems
Michael Heller

Five Days from a Dream Almanac
Dennis Tedlock

Two Poems
Ann Lauterbach

Three Poems
Nathaniel Mackey

Confusing Green with the Color Red: Allegories
Phillip Foss

Seven Tales from 26 Bars
Kenward Elmslie

Eight Poems from Twits Gits Moles Proles & Odd Sods of Dreary Little Sebber
Jonathan Williams

Protoavia: Narrative of the Pilots
Nathaniel Tarn

Puberty
Keith Waldrop

The Faulknerian Presence in Contemporary American Fiction
Frederick R. Karl