ISSUES | summer 1982
5.3 (Summer 1982)
Featuring work by George Garratt, Mark Costello, William Goyen, Michael Pettit, Albert Goldbarth, Barbara Moore, Mark Jarman, Richard Katrovas, Cathryn Hankla, Miller Williams, Harry Hume, Stephen Sandy, Jim Simmerman, Robert Lietz, James Paul, David Ray, Andrew Gent, Mary Ruefle, an interview with Marvin Bell, and criticism by Owen Barfield, and John Harrington.
CONTENT FROM THIS ISSUE
Criticism
Jun 01 1982
Pynchon, Beckett, and Entropy: Uses of Metaphor
Thomas Pynchon’s work is extraordinary eclectic in its interests, but his use of entropy as a metaphor has emerged, over the past ten years or so, as the pre-eminent single concern of critics of his work.
Poetry
Jun 01 1982
Wiedersehen
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Jun 01 1982
Poetry Feature: Robert Lietz
“Thanksgiving Weekend: The Last Touch Football For the Twenty-fifth Season”
“Women Drinking Beer”
Fiction
Jun 01 1982
Early Murphy: Eight Sketches
A place of shouts, swats, suet and saurkraut, Murphy’s neighborhood was pure German. All up and down the block the mothers were fat, loud and from Milwaukee. In aprons, rolled-down hose and shoes with powerful heels, they were porch stompers, lawn shakers, Wiener schnitzel screamers. But their husbands were not.
Poetry
Jun 01 1982
Poetry Feature: Mary Ruefle
“True To Life Also”
“The Least Sequence of Flesh”
Poetry
Jun 01 1982
Cardinal
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Jun 01 1982
A Human Donkey
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Jun 01 1982
Epitaph for Bice Donetti
This poem is not currently available online.
Fiction
Jun 01 1982
In The Icebound Hothouse
It is true that I have not been able to utter more than a madman’s sound since my eyes beheld the sight. I’ve lost speech. And so they have asked me to write. Since you are a poet, write, they told me. Little do they know what they might get. Little, even, do I.
Poetry
Jun 01 1982
Poetry Feature: Cathryn Hankla
“Flight Luck”
“Lighting The Dark Side of the Moon”
Poetry
Jun 01 1982
The Serenade
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Jun 01 1982
Spinner
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Jun 01 1982
Drink
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Jun 01 1982
While You Are Watching
This poem is not currently available online.
Fiction
Jun 01 1982
From "Elizabeth and James"
Why do I persist in playing this part? Why pull on boots & buckle on sword & mount my too costly horse & ride like a proper gent over to Essex House there to swagger about the courtyard? To swap lies & fables with others who, whoever they may be, have no more business or good purpose here than myself.
Poetry
Jun 01 1982
An Interview With Marvin Bell
This interview is not currently available online.
Criticism
Jun 01 1982
Meaning, Revelation and Tradition in Language and Religion
Paul Ricoeur, in his book The Symbolism of Evil, referring to a certain sentence on which he is about to expatiate, begins: “That sentence, which enchants me…” Well, there is a sentence which enchants, and has always enchanted me.
Poetry
Jun 01 1982
Angel
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Jun 01 1982
The Painter
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Jun 01 1982
Wiedersehen
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Jun 01 1982
The Medium
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Jun 01 1982
Poetry Feature: Albert Goldbarth
“Stretch”
“He is Convinced That”