Spring 2003

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Stepmother
Robert Coover

White
Laynie Browne

Four Poems
Lyn Hejinian

Dr. Magic, A Play in One Act
Joyce Carol Oates

Two Essays
Eliot Weinberger

Landscape: Tamalpais
Donald Revell

Kalihi Valley
Lois-Ann Yamanaka

Four Poems
Robert Creeley

Spiritual Mathematics
Martine Bellen

A Brief Survey of Ideal Desire
David Shields

My Autobiography: Portable, With Commentary
Frederic Tuten

Three Poems
John Ashbery

Helin
Can Xue, Translated by Karen Gernant and Translated by Chen Zeping

Lost Victories
William T. Vollmann

“We’re Not Dealing with Naturalism Here”: An Interview
Susan Bernofsky and Angela Carter

Four Poems
Cole Swensen

The Last Guest
Susan Steinberg

Under the Philippines
Han Ong

Three Poems
Rae Armantrout

Impossible Blue
Ann Lauterbach

Two Poems
Brenda Coultas

Two Stories
Diane Williams

Charles Rosenthal (1898–1933), Biography and Portfolio
Ilya Kabakov

Condition
Christopher Sorrentino

One, Two, Three O’Leary
Maureen Howard

Three Poems
Ange Mlinko

Paternity
John DeCaire

Draft 55: Quiptych
Rachel Blau DuPlessis

Schoolgirls
Rick Moody

Hammer
Joy Williams

Grudge on the River Kwai
Paul West

From Dahlia’s Iris, Secret Autobiography and Fiction
Leslie Scalapino

Transparent Itineraries: 2000
Gustaf Sobin

From Caballero
Duncan Dobbelmann

Two Poems
Elaine Equi

Junior Achievement
Mary Caponegro

Three Stories
Anton Chekhov and Translated by Peter Constantine

Gla[n]s
Robert Kelly

Two Poems
Christine Hume

The Abandonment of the Family
William H. Gass