Spring 1982

TABLE OF CONTENTS

North Rim
Nathaniel Tarn

Uncle Balt and the Nature of Being
William H. Gass

Critics
Frederick Busch

Five Poems
Robert Creeley

Two Passages from AXES
Theodore Enslin

Sappho’s Daughter and Three Poems
Thomas Meyer

Vivienne Renaud
Kenneth Rexroth

Adeline and Wonderful Happy Days
James Purdy

The Heat Bird
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

Two Poems
Michael McClure

An Interview
Czeslaw Milosz and Albert Huerta

The Bestiary of the Ghetto
Ryvel, Translated by Edouard Roditi and Vehel

To the Scholar of Architecture
James Laughlin

Excerpt from a Long Poem in Progress
Kay Boyle

A Friendship Traced: Letters to Silvia Dobson and a Poem
H.D. and Carol Tinker

The Earth as Air
Gustaf Sobin

Seven Poems
Carl Rakosi

Five Poems
D.  and W. Faulkner

Doc Dubuque’s Idyll, or, Ah, Nature!
Gilbert Sorrentino

Spanish Sky
Walter Abish

Dewey Canyon
Paul West

A Robert Service Bear Flies Imitation
Edward Dorn

Radio and Other Poems
Tom Clark

Some Clerihews of Clara Hughes
Jonathan Williams

Seven Poems
Kenneth Irby