ISSUES | fall 1986
9.3 (Fall 1986)
Featuring work by Kent Nelson, William Blythe, John Deming, Kevin Desinger, Steve Yarbrough, Edward Falco, George Collazo, James McMichael, Susan Wood, Marnie Prange, Maura High, Edward Bryne, Ira Sadoff, Sandra Gilbert, Lisa Lewis, Michael Waters, Robert Cording, Patricia Clark, Tom Andrews, Mark Jarman, Ralph Angel, Denis Johnson, James Frazee, Walt McDonald, David Bottoms, Larry Kramer, C.K. Williams, Sandra Gilbert, Garrett Hongo, Catherine Park, Carrie Young, Mark Crispin Miller, David Wojahn… and an essay by W.L. Rathje.
CONTENT FROM THIS ISSUE
Nonfiction
Sep 01 1986
A Decent Burial for the American Dream
Our American dedication to the concept of a decent burial has led to some surprising methods of interment.
Nonfiction
Sep 01 1986
The Intricately Layered Story
This essay is not currently available online.
Nonfiction
Sep 01 1986
The End of Genre in Television
The Spectacle of television today is, more than ever, always advertising its own extreme and vivid urban realism. TV would have us see it as a window, not merely on “the world,” but on the world’s tawdiest precincts, its nastiest relationships, its most unwholesome practices.
Nonfiction
Sep 01 1986
The Education of a Family
My pioneer mother was wild for education. She fervently believed that any young person given enough schooling and using the brains he was born with could rise above himself as far as he wanted to go, the sky was the limit.
Interviews
Sep 01 1986
A Conversation with Sandra M. Gilbert
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Poetry
Sep 01 1986
Ice
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Sep 01 1986
From A Book of Hours
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Sep 01 1986
Poetry Feature: David Bottoms
“Awake”
“The Offering”
Poetry
Sep 01 1986
Old Men Fishing at Brownwood
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Sep 01 1986
The Pickpocket of Torre Bermeja
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Sep 01 1986
Poetry Feature: Denis Johnson
“Grey Day in Miami”
“The Risen”
“The Heavens”
Poetry
Sep 01 1986
Poetry Feature: Ralph Angel
“Waves”
“Long Shadows, Many Footsteps”
Poetry
Sep 01 1986
The Mystic
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Sep 01 1986
May I Read You a Few Lines from Pepy's Diary?
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Sep 01 1986
Poetry Feature: Patricia Clark
“The Lodge Meadow”
“Commencement Bay”
Poetry
Sep 01 1986
Evening in Cromane
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Sep 01 1986
Snakes
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Sep 01 1986
Poetry Feature: Lisa Lewis
“Red Ribbon”
“Winter Wheat”
“Cloud Light”
“The Innocent Embrace”
Poetry
Sep 01 1986
Poetry Feature: Sandra Gilbert
“Gull”
“Hooked Rug”
“For Beethoven”
Poetry
Sep 01 1986
The Pink Gardenia
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Sep 01 1986
Poetry Feature: Edward Bryne
“Homecoming”
“Aubade for a Dancer”
Poetry
Sep 01 1986
Poetry Feature: Maura High
“The Four Corners”
“The Bird Called Halcyon”
Poetry
Sep 01 1986
I Want Back In
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Sep 01 1986
Campo Santo
This poem is not currently available online.
Poetry
Sep 01 1986
Five Poems
This poem is not currently available online.
Fiction
Sep 01 1986
1" Neoprene
Allen Ramos came up from California wearing haruche sandals and a peacoat with a tear in the lining. The coat he took off when the weather grew too warm, which in Seattle is not uncommon during the summer, notwithstanding the big storms that come in from the west every few weeks.
Fiction
Sep 01 1986
Gifts
Storm-blue clouds, a circle of slate-blue mountains, a ridge I could barely make out between the mountains and the clouds–that’s what it looked like from the bedroom window.
Fiction
Sep 01 1986
Some Glad Morning
“Moody,” he heard Rae Holler. “Tim’s waiting.”
He balanced the guitar case on the arms of his chair, shouted “bye” to Rae in the kitchen and wheeled himself out.
Fiction
Sep 01 1986
Mrs. Dawson
It was after father came in from the gooseyard Friday evening, telling me to return the varmit pistol to his closet, that I first spotted the box of letters shoved beneath his lowest closet shelf, partially hidden by his Mother’s clothing.
Fiction
Sep 01 1986
Saigon Tea
There was a record player, a bartender, and a girl behind the bar. The girl was young, not more than sixteen, and wore the long white tunic and silk trousers of a student.
Fiction
Sep 01 1986
Stoics
In September of 1964, when my younger sister Sarah and I were already on the way to learning stoicism in the face of the unexpected, we were taken like the orphans we had become to Hoover Hansen’s farm in the tobacco country outside of Danville, Virginia.
Fiction
Sep 01 1986
The Rangold Consortium
At Gardner’s Labor Day barbecue in Cos Cob, Rangold suggested, after a few gin and tonics, that we form a consortium.