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Volume 22, Issue 4

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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

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