ISSUES | winter 1981
5.2 (Winter 1981-82)
Featuring work by Margaret Atwood, Marvin Bell, S. Ben-Tov, Robert Bly, Paul Bowles, David Bottoms, Stephen Dobyns, Robert Gibb, Donald Hall, David Hamilton, Jonathan Holden, Leon Howard, Aaron Kramer, Leslie Norris, Ian MacMillan, Daniel Melnick, David Perkins, Len Roberts, Louis Simpson, Vivian Teter, Diane Wald, David Wagoner, Diane Wakoski, Theodore Weiss, Robert Wrigley, and an interview of Gerald Stern by Sanford Pinsker.
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CONTENT FROM THIS ISSUE
Poetry
Dec 01 1982
The Open Staircase
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Dec 01 1982
Poetry Feature: Robert Gibb
“Aubade”
“Home”
“Seeing Pittsburgh”
“Fathers and Sons”
Poetry
Dec 01 1982
Fugue
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Poetry
Dec 01 1982
Poetry Feature: Marvin Bell
“Some Shadows”
“What They Do To You In Distant Places”
“Where Is Odysseus From And What Was He Before He Left For The Trojan War”
“At The Airport”
“Florence”
Reviews
Dec 01 1982
Recent Translations of Latin American Fiction
Alejo Carpenter, the Cuban novelist, invented the phrase “marvelous reality” to describe a particular way of viewing Lating America. So many things seemed extraordinary, paradoxical, and magical that he could hardly believe what his own eyes saw.
Poetry
Dec 01 1982
Friends and Strangers
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Criticism
Dec 01 1982
The Morality of Conrad's Imagination
In a letter written as he was beginning Lord Jim, Conrad describes the problem of discerning and firmly holding the values by which life may be lived, and his remarks identify an issue central to the reading and criticism of his works: the difficulty of defining Conrad’s values.
Poetry
Dec 01 1982
Drunks In The Bass Boat
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Poetry
Dec 01 1982
Boys With Pigeons
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Poetry
Dec 01 1982
Light Of The Sacred Harp
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Poetry
Dec 01 1982
Six Suns
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Criticism
Dec 01 1982
The Composition of The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury has been, during the last fifty years, one of the most widely discussed American novels. Critics have made numerous efforts to define its meaning and have found innumerable things to say about its structure.
Poetry
Dec 01 1982
Night Rate
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Fiction
Dec 01 1982
from "Point In Time"
The armada lay under the water, and the land of Spain lay above, color of camels and saffron.
Poetry
Dec 01 1982
The Moon's Waxy Refinement
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Interviews
Dec 01 1982
The Poetry of Constant Renewal and Celebration: An Afternoon's Chat With Gerald Stern
This interview is not currently available online.
Criticism
Dec 01 1982
Responses to Frederick Turner
The following is a synopsis of and responses to Frederick Turner’s article ” ‘Mighty Poets in their Misery Dead’ : A polemic on the Contemporary Poetic Scene,” which appeared in the Fall, 1980 issue of The Missouri Review.
Poetry
Dec 01 1982
School-Yard
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Poetry
Dec 01 1982
An American Boyhood
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Poetry
Dec 01 1982
Appalonea
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Poetry
Dec 01 1982
Equipoise
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Criticism
Dec 01 1982
On Certain Slants of Light Slipping "Zippy Zappy," From Williams
This essay began from my musing upon a claim, recently made, that there is no great poetry today, and that, in large part, because our poets are ignorant of contemporary philosophy and science.
Poetry
Dec 01 1982
Small Poems for The Winter Solstice
This poem is not currently available online.
Criticism
Dec 01 1982
Twilight (a possible story by William Faulkner)
and Roskus came
and said to come to supper and Caddy said,
It’s not supper time yet, I’m not going.
Fiction
Dec 01 1982
The Wind, The Cold Wind
I was almost at the top of Victoria Road, under the big maroon hoarding advertising Camp Coffee, when I heard Jimmy James shouting.
Fiction
Dec 01 1982
Proud Monster: Sketches
The three of us were drunk as usual, on spirits confiscated from the executed. First there was Matthes, whom I thought of as “the poet” because he fancied himself an intellectual and this his stint in Einsatzgruppe C an adventure for a man of refined tastes. During our conversations he would jot notes in a leatherbound journal. Then there was Kohler, recently new to our drinking group, a large man who spoke rarely and was given to black moods.