Spring 1993

TABLE OF CONTENTS

From Blessèd is the Fruit
Robert Antoni

From AVA
Carole Maso

From Sister
Jim Lewis

From Light While There Is Light: An American History
Keith Waldrop

From Film Noir
Jessica Hagedorn

From Quite a Bit Longer Thing in Progress
David Foster Wallace

From Foreign Parts
Janice Galloway

From The River of Olives
Paul Gervais

From Defoe
Leslie Scalapino

From The Tent of Orange Mist
Paul West

From Red the Fiend
Gilbert Sorrentino

The Curve
David Rattray and James Nares

The Place Has Replaced the Teller
Fiona Templeton

The Self
Aaron Shurin

Coma Berenices
Claude Simon

Four Kinds of Water
Martine Bellen

Three Poems
Rae Armantrout

Months in the Year of Animal Prayer
Ben Marcus

Into the Hill Country
John Taggart

Five Poems
David Mus

Our Underwater Mother
Yannick Murphy

Stripped Tales
Barbara Guest

Three Poems
Ann Lauterbach

Parts
Susan Rothenberg and Robert Creeley

The White Blackbird
James Purdy

Six Poems
Alexander Theroux

When the River Runs Red
Catherine Scherer

Pollen
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

Red Banner’s Whereabouts
Nathaniel Tarn

Five Poems
Rosmarie Waldrop