Fall 1992

TABLE OF CONTENTS

From Perduta Gente
Peter Reading

On Saving History
Fanny Howe

From Out With the Stars
James Purdy

The River
Eliot Weinberger

Columbus
Friedrich Hölderlin and Translated by Richard Sieburth

Conrad and Lowry in Mexico
Ewa Kuryluk

Determination, Suspension, Diversion, Digression, Destruction
David Antin

Money
Translated by Michael Palmer, Aleksei Parshchikov and Translated by Darlene Reddaway

From 707 Scott Street
John Wieners

Friends: 1689
Adam Thorpe

Three Poems
Carl Rakosi

Two Poems
Elaine Equi

James’ Games
Dennis Silk

Three Poems
Melissa Townsend

Herculaneum
Thom Gunn

Fix Me Up
Pat Califia

From Posthumous Fragments of 1798
Novalis and Translated by Alexander Gelley

An Interview
Aaron Jay Kernis and John Adams

Two Poems
Martin Earl

Eight Collages
Donald Baechler

The Glass Mountain
Barbara Guest

Impenetrability
Henry Green

The Novel in the Next Century
John Barth

It Must Be Sophisticated
John Ashbery

The Faculty for Hearing the Silence of Jesus
Forrest Gander

The Bugbear of Experimentalism
Christopher Middleton

Beauty & the Cripple
Jim Powell

Grace’s Tree, I
Marjorie Welish

From Horse Spittle
Iain Sinclair

Three Poems
Tom Clark

Two Sketches
Phillip Lopate

They Take the Car Away
Charles Stein

Two Poems
Cid Corman

The Sight of a Lion that Appeared to Me and Seemed to Be Coming at Me
Barbara Einzig

Two Poems
James Laughlin

Fad’s Eye
Eli Gottlieb

Poetry and Apoetical Culture
Adonis and Translated by Esther Allen

Dido to Aeneas
David Shapiro

Jepthah’s Vow and Marginality
Arthur A. Cohen

Last Words
William Corbett

In Memoriam
John Cage