Spring 1990

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The First Voyage of Somebody the Sailor
John Barth

India
Yannick Murphy

Eating Disorders
Jay Cantor

The Horse Killers
John Hawkes

Lord Royston’s Tour
Lydia Davis

Four Stories
Diane Williams

An Interview
Catherine Bush and Michael Ondaatje

The Nonconformist’s Memorial
Susan Howe

Seven Poems
Norma Cole

Essays on the Comic Book
Leslie Scalapino

Two Poems
Barbara Guest

Ideal
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

Way of Life
John Ashbery

Two Poems
David Rattray

Ark: The Ramparts (Arches I–XVIII)
Ronald Johnson

Echoes from the Spanish Civil War
Janet Rodney

Hold It
Diane Ward

After Christoph Hein’s The Distant Lover
Barbara Einzig

Two Poems
John Ash

Seven Rondeaux
Laura Moriarty

Letters to Zanzotto
Michael Palmer

Italian Sequence Comma With Italian Words Stop One Stop
Nathaniel Tarn

From Over The Hill
Sarah Menefee

A Baltic Tragedy
Robert Kelly

Page
Rachel Blau DuPlessis

Prom In Toledo Nights
Ann Lauterbach

Virtual Reality
Charles Bernstein

Three Poems
Martine Bellen

Three Poems
Marjorie Welish

Variations on a Paraphrase
Keith Waldrop

Geisha Mime
Phillip Foss

Seven Poems
Bruce Andrews

Eggplant and Lotus Roots
Forrest Gander

Three Poems
George Evans

From Herself Com Passionate
Theodore Enslin

Five Nails
Charles Stein

Mise en Scène
Peter Gizzi

Covers
Rae Armantrout

The Attraction of the Ground
Rosmarie Waldrop

One to Bet: A Jerusalem Pamphlet
Peter Cole

American Writing Today: A Diagnosis of the Disease
William T. Vollmann

Fragments from Aeschylus’ Prometheos Auomenos
John Taggart

No’s Knife in Yes’s Throat
Paul West