Spring 1998

TABLE OF CONTENTS

From The Trial
Franz Kafka and Translated by Breon Mitchell

The Freedom Prize Speech
Gü, Translated by nter Grass and Peter Constantine

Three Poems
Jorie Graham

Rückenfigur
Susan Howe

Thirteen Ecstasies of the Soul
Dale Peck

From In America
Susan Sontag

Two Poems
John Ashbery

Semaine d’Artaud
Anne Carson

Black
Alexander Theroux

New South Wales
Erik Ehn

Four Conversations
Rosmarie Waldrop

Four Poems
Gustaf Sobin

Songbirds
John Barth

The Visiting Privilege
Joy Williams

From Draft 32: Renga
Rachel Blau DuPlessis

You Are Jeff
Richard Siken

Moral Yellowness
William T. Vollmann

The Road to Basra
Kevin Magee

Emma Enters a Sentence of Elizabeth Bishop’s
Michael Eastman and William H. Gass

The Sheriff Goes to Church
Robert Coover

Foetus
Shelley Jackson

Seven Poems
Ed Friedman

Two Poems
Ann Lauterbach

The Chatter Heart: An EKG
Paul West

K. Tropes
John Taggart

Preface
Paul Maliszewski

Public Notice
Joanna Scott

Architectures
Martine Bellen

And Then There’s the One
John Barth

The Sons of Angus MacElster
Joyce Carol Oates

On the Nordic Pleasurelines Fall Color Cruise
Jonathan Franzen

From Uxudo
Anne Tardos

Body In Glory
Nathaniel Tarn

Two Poems
Peter Gizzi

Three Poems
Rae Armantrout

From Feeding the Ghosts
Fred D’Aguiar

Edmund Wilson on Alfred de Musset: The Dream
Robert Kelly