Volume 30, Issue 2
FRONT COVER: Leonard Baskin
A Sibyl, from A Book of Twelve Sibyls
WOODCUT
Table of Contents
Crimes Against the Lyric; Anatomy; Mimi; Certain Nuances, Certain Gestures; Haunted Aquarium; Consolations After an Affair, Poetry by James Tate
The Whale, Fiction by Philip Simmons
The Garden of Botanical Delights; Dialogue Partly Platonic, Poetry by Madeline DeFrees
Heat Wave, Fiction by Tom Ruane
Olana, Summer, 1872, Poetry by Herbert Morris
Tabula Rasa, Poetry by Edward Kleinschmidt
Born Again at the Golden Nozzle; The Color of Jungle Birds, Poetry by Margaret Szumowski
How to Survive Childhood, Fiction by Castle Freeman
The Rotting of the Playhouse; The Jeweled Christ; The Virgin General, Poetry by Robin Mary Boswell
Three Illuminations from the Afterlife of Lytton Swain, Fiction by Stephen O’Connor
Letter to Jonathon From Missoula, Poetry by Patricia Goedicke
Story of a Prodigal Son, Poetry by Jorge Teillier, Translated By Carolyne Wright
Violetta, Fiction by Roshni Rustomji-Kerns
Bodywash; News, Poetry by John Hodgen
Hair Cut Like Gabriela Mistral’s; El Mundo Machimbre, Poetry by Zoe Anglesey
Beds, Fiction by Tricia Bauer
The Sixties; Betty’s Silence; Nothing Beautiful Except in Things, Poetry by Terese Svoboda
Pieces of Night: Poems from Prison, Poetry by Paul N. Silas
Contributors
ZOE ANGLESEY has translated six volumes of poetry by Central American and Argentine Authors.
TRICIA BAUER‘s poems and stories have appeared in a number of literary magazines, most recently in Fiction Network where she was named a winner in that magazine’s annual fiction competition.
ROBIN MARY BOSWELL is working on two collections of poems.
A collector’s limited edition of The Light Station on Tillamook Rock, by MADELINE DEFREES, will appear this year.
CASTLE FREEMAN‘s collection of stories, The Bride of Ambrose, was published in 1987 by Soho Press.
Currently teaching in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Montana, PATRICIA GOEDICKE has published nine books of poems; her most recent volume, The Tongues We Speak, was just published by Milkweed Editions.
The poems of JOHN HODGEN have appeared in many literary magazines, and have received several awards including the Grolier Prize and an Arvon Foundation Award.
EDWARD KLEINSCHMIDT, whose poems have recently appeared in Poetry, APR, et al., teaches creative writing at Santa Clara University.
HERBERT MORRIS has published two collections of poems, Peru (1983) and Dream Palace (1986).
STEPHEN O’CONNOR, whose stories have appeared in Partisan Review and Fiction International, has just published a collection, Rescue (Harmony Books).
TOM RUANE‘s fiction has appeared in various reviews, including the Carolina Quarterly and Yale Review.
Born in Bombay, ROSHNI RUSTOMJI KERNS has contributed fiction and articles to various journals; she teaches at Sonoma State University.
PAUL N. SILAS, currently an inmate at a federal prison, has chosen to use this name while incarcerated; his poems have also appeared in a number of other literary magazines, including Triquarterly and Beloit Poetry Journal.
Currently a National Graduate Fellow at the University of Michigan, PHILIP SIMMONS has published stories in Playboy, Ploughshares and Alaska Quarterly Review.
TERESE SVOBODA published two books of poems in 1985: All Aberration (Univ. of Georgia) and Cleaned the Crocodile’s Teeth (Greenfield Review Press).
MARGARET SZUMOWSKI‘s work has appeared in various journals and anthologies, including Concert at Chopin’s House: an Anthology of Polish-American Writing (New Rivers).
JAMES TATE has two collections of poems forthcoming from Wesleyan University Press: Distance from Loved Ones and Selected Poems. He is at present a visiting Poet at the Iowa Writers Workshop.
The Chilean poet JORGE TEILLIER was born in 1935. He has spent much of his life in Santiago and Victoria, working as a reviewer and journalist. He has published eight collections of poems. His translator, CAROLYNE WRIGHT, spent 1971-72 in Chile on a Fulbright and began translating Teillier’s work at that time.