Volume 39, Issue 3
FRONT COVER: Scottie Parsons
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Table of Contents
The Woman in the Pub, a story by Vern Rutsala
Robinson Crusoe’s Hair, a poem by Carol Frost
Autumn, No Answer, a poem by Herman Fong
The Black Horse, a story by Ly Lan, Translated from the Vietnamese by the author with Kevin Bowen
Imperial Cities and One More: Casablanca, a poem by John Frazier
Thoreau’s Radical Consistency, by Shawn St. Jean
Nights in the Constellation of the Twin-Hearted Prisoner; Dialogue: Memory and Forgetting, poems by Beckian Fritz Goldberg
The Impressments of Billy Budd, by Jeff Westover
India, a poem by Tony Hoagland
Say Something, a story by Castle Freeman
Jameleh, a story by Emily Cerf
Kas Buvo-Tai Nebus, a poem by David Avidan, Translated from the Hebrew by Michael Taub and Dror Abend
Sunday Still Life–With Table, With Knife, a poem by Sandor Csoori, Translated from the Hungarian by Len Roberts and Maria Szende
Waiting for the Caríllon, by David Masello
Feminist Poem Number One, a poem by Elizabeth Alexander
Four Corners, a story by David Yoo
Partial Detachment, a poem by Cortney Davis
Where Stoned Men Talk God in the Early Sun, by Robert Fredrickson
Au Pair A Green, a poem by Liz Waldner
Contributors
Dror Abend was born in Israel and writes on Israeli poetry; his own poems have appeared in various journals.
Elizabeth Alexander is the author of two books of poetry, The Venus Hottentot and Body of Life. She is the Grace Hazard Conkling Poet-in-Residence at Smith College.
Israeli poet David Avidan (1934-1995) has work forthcoming in Kenyon Review and Prairie Schooner.
Kevin Bowen is the author of a book of poetry, Playing Basketball with the Viet Cong. He directs The William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences at U.Mass., Boston.
Emily Cerf‘s stories have appeared in The Quarterly, Story, Fiction and other journals.
Sandor Csoori, one of Hungary’s foremost poets, is the author of Swans, In Cannon Fire.
Poems by Cortney Davis have appeared in The Hudson Review and Crazyhorse. She is the author of Details of Flesh and the recipient of an NEA poetry fellowship in 1994.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Herman Fong‘s poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 1997, Ploughshares and other places.
Work by John Frazier has appeared in Beyond the Frontier, The Widener Review, The Boston Book Review and other publications.
Robert Fredrickson is Chair of the English Department at Gettysburg College. His critical articles have appeared in Modern Language Quarterly, Papers on Language and Literature, and The Journal of African Travel Writing.
Castle Freeman, Jr.‘s most recent novel is Judgment Hill.
A teacher at Hartwick College, Carol Frost is the author of Venus and Don Juan, Pure; her book New and Selected is forthcoming.
Beckian Fritz Goldberg‘s books include Body Betrayer and In the Badlands. Her poems have appeared in APR, The Gettysburg Review, The Best American Poetry 1995 and other journals and anthologies.
Tony Hoagland‘s second book, Donkey Gospel (Graywoll Press), won the 1997 Laughlin Prize. He teaches at New Mexico State University and in the Warren Wilson MFA program.
One of the most popular post-war writers in Vietnam, Ly Lan teaches at the Ho Chi Minh City Open University and is on the editorial staff of several literary journals.
David Masello is the author of Architecture Without Rules: The Houses of Marcel Breuer and Herbert Beckhard (W.W. Norton). He has contributed essays and reviews to the New York Times, Art News and other magazines and journals.
Len Roberts‘s two most recent books of poetry are Counting the Black Angels and The Trouble-Making Finch. His translations have appeared in Translation, APR, Partisan Review and other journals.
The two most recent books by Vern Rutsala are Little Known Sports (awarded the Juniper Prize) and Selected Poems. His poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, Chelsea, Southwest Review and other journals.
A Teaching Fellow at Kent State University, Shawn St. Jean‘s work has appeared and is forthcoming in, among others, Pulp Fiction Studies in the Humanities and Studies in Short Fiction.
Maria Szende teaches English language and literature at Janus Pannonius Univ. in Peć.
Michael Taub was born in Romania and has lived in Israel and the U.S. He has written extensively about Israeli drama.
Liz Waldner is the author of a collection of poetry, Homing Devices, and two chapbooks, With the Tongues of Angels and Bus Stop.
Jeff Westover‘s essays have appeared in Style and Critical Essays on James Merrill.
Recipient of the 1997 Zora Neale Hurston Fellowship, David Yoo is completing his MA in Creative Writing in Colorado.