Volume 22, Issue 4
Entries
poetry
Introduction: Festivity & Invention in Comedy
By Fred Miller Robinson
poetry
The Tinkerer
By Robert Coover
nonfiction
An Amorous Bestiary
By John Hawkes
nonfiction
Frontispiece for "Hawkes' An Amorous Bestiary"
By Hui Ming Wang
poetry
Charity; Elephant Tears; A Dog's Tail; The Restaurant Explosions; The Park Bench
By Russell Edson
poetry
Autochthonous; The Mink Cemetery
By James Tate
nonfiction
Slow Men Working in Trees; DaVinci Crashes in Joy Dawson's Hog Farm
By Annie Bromley
poetry
After the Usual
By Lawrence Raab
poetry
Cubism as a Comic Style
By David Summers
art
An Interview with the Oracle
By Jack Flavin
nonfiction
Some Principles of Clowning
By Adriane Despot
poetry
Doing the Town in Cleveland, Ohio; Ho-Hum
By Mary A. Koncel
fiction
Etchings & Drawings 1977-1981
By Abigail Rorer
poetry
Rolling Dogs; Emergency Cannibals
By Lee Upton
poetry
To the Point of Folly: Touchstone's Function in "As You Like It"
By David Frail
fiction
Postcard of Child Peeking Out from Under Its Mother's Skirt; Supplanting the Beloved; Degrees of Pen/Man/Ship
By Cynthia MacDonald
poetry
The Jokes at the Wake
By Hugh Kenner
nonfiction
Poem for a Refrigerator Door
By Alison Luterman
poetry
Late Late Fiction
By Ladislav Jerga
poetry
Instruments of American-Jewish Humor
By Sanford Pinsker
nonfiction
Tattoo
By Clarence Major
poetry
Speaking Seriously About Humor
By Peter Farb
nonfiction
Light Verse: Drawing
By Hui Ming Wang
poetry
Light Verse: Some Differences
By Richard Wilbur
nonfiction
Light Verse: Conland - Gold Bought Here
By X.J. Kennedy
poetry
Light Verse: Shirley, Good Mrs. Murphy
By Sarah Provost
poetry
Light Verse: Hopkins: The Bedspring; Wordsworth: The Moose Flayer
By David Lenson
poetry
Female Wits
By Emily Toth
nonfiction
The Coat Song
By Barbara Reisner
nonfiction
Variations on the Edible Tuber
By Madeline DeFrees
fiction
Volatile Matter: Humor in Our Poetry
By M.L. Rosenthal
fiction
Lust; Death, as Described by the Living
By Gillian Conoley
Table of Contents
Introduction: Festivity & Invention in Comedy, Non-Fiction by Fred Miller Robinson
The Tinkerer, Fiction by Robert Coover
An Amorous Bestiary, Fiction by John Hawkes, drawing by Wang Hui-Ming
Frontispiece for "Hawkes' An Amorous Bestiary",
Non-Fiction by Hui Ming Wang
Charity; Elephant Tears; A Dog's Tail; The Restaurant
Explosions; The Park Bench, Poetry by Russell Edson
Autochthonous; The Mink Cemetery, Poetry by James Tate
Slow Men Working in Trees; DaVinci Crashes in Joy
Dawson's Hog Farm, Poetry by Annie Bromley
After the Usual, Fiction by Lawrence Raab
Cubism as a Comic Style, Non-Fiction by
David Summers
An Interview with the Oracle, Poetry by Jack Flavin
Some Principles of Clowning, Non-Fiction by Adriane Despot
Doing the Town in Cleveland, Ohio; Ho-Hum,
Poetry by Mary A. Koncel
Etchings & Drawings 1977-1981, Non-Fiction by
Abigail Rorer, 10 Reproductions and an Afterword
by the Artist
Rolling Dogs; Emergency Cannibals,
Poetry by Lee Upton
To the Point of Folly: Touchstone's Function in
"As You Like It", Non-Fiction by David Frail
Postcard of Child Peeking Out from Under Its Mother's
Skirt; Supplanting the Beloved; Degrees of Pen/Man/Ship,
Poetry by Cynthia MacDonald
The Jokes at the Wake, Non-Fiction by Hugh Kenner
Poem for a Refrigerator Door, Poetry by Alison Luterman
Late Late Fiction, Fiction by Ladislav Jerga
Instruments of American-Jewish Humor,
Non-Fiction by Sanford Pinsker
Tattoo, Fiction by Clarence Major
Speaking Seriously About Humor,
Non-Fiction by Peter Farb
Light Verse: Drawing, Art by Hui Ming Wang
Light Verse: Some Differences,
Poetry by Richard Wilbur
Light Verse: Conland - Gold Bought Here,
Poetry by X.J. Kennedy
Light Verse: Shirley, Good Mrs. Murphy,
Poetry by Sarah Provost
Light Verse: Hopkins: The Bedspring; Wordsworth:
The Moose Flayer, Poetry by David Lenson
Female Wits, Non-Fiction by Emily Toth
The Coat Song, Fiction by Barbara Reisner
Variations on the Edible Tuber,
Poetry by Madeline DeFrees
Volatile Matter: Humor in Our Poetry,
Non-Fiction by M.L. Rosenthal
Lust; Death, as Described by the Living,
Poetry by Gillian Conoley