Spring 1989

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Bones and Jones
Maxine Hong Kingston

Autumn on the Thruway
John Ashbery

After John Cage’s Europeras 1 & 2
Barbara Einzig

A Hidden History
Ben Okri

Gap
Rachel Blau DuPlessis

Badger
Guy Davenport

The Trick
Fielding Dawson

How Things Bear Their Telling
Ann Lauterbach

The Series—3
Leslie Scalapino

The Quest for Polar Treasures (with field sketches by the author)
William T. Vollmann

9th Merzgedicht In Memoriam Kurt Schwitters
Jackson Mac Low

Three Stories
Lydia Davis

A Letter from Dorit
Toby Olson

An Interview
Bradford Morrow and Robert Kelly

A Gram in the Scale
Tom Mandel

Home
Nathaniel Tarn

Th’ Excess of Glory Obscured
Phillip Foss

The Gleam in the Butcher’s Eye (with photographs by the author)
Barbara Tedlock

Breath on the Mirror (with drawings by the author)
Dennis Tedlock

The Amputation Blade
Jim Crace

Six Poems
Rosmarie Waldrop

Two Poems
Douglas Messerli

Skin Deep
Walter Abish

Four Sonnets
Larry Goodell

Six Short-Shorts
Paul West

Christ and the Museum of Extinct Species
William S. Burroughs