Twenty-Five - Fall 2003
In 1908 the first automobile arrived in town, driven along the sandy King's Highway, with the horn honking so loudly that sea foul and hunting dogs took up the racket until the
whole town was vibrating. Things shook and rattled and fell apart in a matter of minutes.
Alice Hoffman, from "Lionheart"
| Fiction | |
|---|---|
| ALICE HOFFMAN | Lionheart |
| MIRANDA JULY | It Was Romance |
| WILLIAM TYREE | Tokyo Story |
| YI-PING ONG | Marriages Are Made in Heaven |
| CAMILLA GIBB | When She Was Small |
| Special Feature: Richard Yates | |
|---|---|
| MICHAEL SHINAGEL | Richard Yates: An Introduction |
| BLAKE BAILEY | Poor Dick |
| RICHARD YATES | Correspondence, 1960-61 |
| KURT VONNEGUT | Remarks at the Yates Memorial Service |
| Poetry | |
|---|---|
| W. D. SNODGRASS | Song Slam Lady!— from In Flower |
| MAUREEN N. McLANE | The Reconstruction of the Mind... |
| BENJAMIN PALOFF | Letter to the Editor Diet of Worms |
| J. S. A. LOWE | snow |
| PAM BROWN | Death by Droning |
| CHRIS HOSEA | The Mute Nephew |
| ANTRANIG GARABEDIAN | Close the Door |
| MEENA ALEXANDER | Triptych in a Time of War |
| SUSAN BULLOCK | Barbarian |
| HARRIS GARDNER | Comma |
| BRUCE BEASLEY | Aphasic Echolalia |
| PHILIP SCHULTZ | from Living in the Past |
| MICHAEL SALCMAN | Small Bones |
| BETH ANN FENNELLY | Three Months after Giving Birth... Night Game |
| Special Feature: Robert Lowell | |
|---|---|
| FANNY HOWE | Past Present |
| ROBERT CREELEY | Thinking of Robert Lowell |
| PAUL MULDOON | "George III" by Robert Lowell |
| DAVID GEWANTER | Lowell's Collected Poems |
| SASKIA HAMILTON | "I Was Naked without My Line-Ends" |
| ROBERT LOWELL | Letter to W. F. van Leeuwen, 1952 |
| HEATHER McHUGH | Robert Lowell: Of Two Minds |
| Essays | |
|---|---|
| CHARLES SIMIC | The Life of Images The Singing Simics |
| WILLIAM DORESKI | Scissor-Clips in the Dark |
| DAVID GESSNER | Trickster in the City: A Coyote Journal |
| Graphics | |
|---|---|
| DUANE SLICK | Black Mask |
| WILLIAM KENTRIDGE | Reading Chamber's Encyclopedia Zeno Writing (Acanthus) Zeno Writing (I Promise) |
| ALEX KATZ | Impatients Landscape Portfolio (8 of 8) |
| BRICE MARDEN | The Fungoid Rock |
| TERRY WINTERS | Cameo |
| Book Reviews | |
|---|---|
| Agha Shahid Ali, Call Me Ishmael Tonight | Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr. |
| Stephen Burt, Randall Jarrell and His Age | Kathleen Rooney |
| Ciaran Carson, Breaking News | Thomas O'Grady |
| John d'Agata, ed., The Next American Essay | Jacquelyn Pope |
| Patricia Dienstfrey and Brenda Hillman, eds., The Grand Permission | Jacquelyn Pope |
| Nick Flynn, Blind Huber | Kurt Brown |
| Cynthia Huntington, The Radiant |
James Sitar |
| Joe LeSueur, Digressions on Some Poems | Andrew DuBois |
| Kate Light, Open Slowly | Gabriel Welsch |
| Grace Dane Mazur, Trespass | Prudence Steiner |
| Carol Moldaw, The Lightning Field | Christina Pugh |
| Les Murray, Poems the Size of Photographs | Andrew DuBois |
| Joseph Parisi, et al, eds., The Poetry Anthology | C. Wallace-Crabbe |
| Marie Ponsot, Springing | Maggie Dietz |
| Tom Raworth, Collected Poems | Tony Baker |
| Nate Dorward, ed., Removed for Further Study | Tony Baker |
| Mary Ruefle, Among the Musk Ox People | Cecily Iddings |
| Sam Shepard, Great Dream of Heaven | David Athey |
| Tom Sleigh, Far Side of the Earth | Peter Campion |
| Graham Swift, The Light of Day | Daphne Abeel |
| Patricia Sarrafian Ward, The Bullet Collection | Chuck Leddy |
