Fall 1989

TABLE OF CONTENTS

An Interview
Salman Rushdie and Catherine Bush

Reading Kafka in German
Walter Abish

Common Stock
Charles Bernstein

Two Poems
Marjorie Welish

Deception
Martine Bellen

Three Poems
Barbara Guest

From Some Thing Black
Jacques Roubaud and Translated by Rosmarie Waldrop

From Physical Culture
Hillary Johnson

Regulus and Maximus
John Hawkes

Ovando
Jamaica Kincaid

From Mrs. God
Peter Straub

From The Almanac Branch
Bradford Morrow

Night of the Assassins
Robert Coover

Fever
John Edgar Wideman

Nine Portraits
Clegg & and Guttmann

The Beginning of the Life of Rimbaud
Kathy Acker

Dreams Involving Water
Gary Indiana

Carville
Robert Kelly

The Trouble With Beauty
Lynne Tillman

The Sound
Mary Caponegro

Colors
Sylvia Kelly

Vigilance
Patrick McGrath

A Whore’s Agincourt
Paul West

The Grave of Lost Stories
William T. Vollmann

Irises
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

Afterword
Patrick McGrath

Four Poems from Helsinki
Robert Creeley

Vaguely Harmless
John Taggart

Five Stories
Diane Williams

on Juan Goytisolo
Paul West

on Lucia Berlin
Paul Metcalf

on Edmond Jabès
Peter Cole

on Leslie Scalapino
Ann Lauterbach

on Pierre Klossowski
Robert Kelly

on David Markson
Tom Clark