Spring 1985

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Innocence in Extremis
John Hawkes

From That They Were at the Beach—Aleotropic Series
Leslie Scalapino

From The Orchards of Sleep
Gerrit Lansing

[exercitatio/praecipere]
Kenneth Irby

Talking About Here
Marjorie Welish

In Interview
Robert Duncan and Michael McClure

Axes 82
Theodore Enslin

Tales from the Next Village
Mary Caponegro

From Maxims from My Mother’s Milk
Douglas Messerli

The Fall of Summer
Walter Abish

A Conversation on an Island in the Seine
Edmund White and Edouard Roditi

The Guy Downstairs
Hayden Carruth

Three Poems
Gene Frumkin

Empathy
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

From The Reproduction of Profiles
Rosmarie Waldrop

Portfolio: New Furniture by Artists and Architects
Mary Miss, Tod Williams, Elizabeth Diller, Elias Moser, Bruce Tomb, Isamu Noguchi, Siah Armasani, Donald Judd, Nicholas Goldsmith, Scott Burton and Billy Tsien

A Beehive Arranged on Humane Principles
Gilbert Sorrentino

The Sad Machines
Charles Stein

Two Poems
Clayton Eshleman

From The Book of Songs
Nathaniel Tarn

Nearly Twenty Questions
Ronald Johnson and Jonathan Williams

Seeing Into & Seeing Through Leonardo’s Scapes
Cid Corman

American Fictions: The Mega Novel
Frederick R. Karl

on Robert Duncan
Kenneth Irby

on Kenneth Patchen
Hayden Carruth

on Hilda Morley
Theodore Enslin

on Michael Heller
Bradford Morrow