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Volume 6 (1997)

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Last Gifts
Kim Addonizio

Poems

Life In Usonia
Bert Almon

Adolescence
Nin Andrews

The Day Auntie Lou Saw God
Nin Andrews

Gunung Bromo
Javant Biaruja

Lawant (Hotel Niagara)
Javant Biaruja

The Photograph Of The Man Who Looked Like My Father
Robert Bly

Practicum
Michael Chitwood

Narcissus
Robert Clinton

The Goldilocks Compulsion
Russell Edson

The Babies
Russell Edson

Famous Night . . .
Odysseus Elytis

Depth
Odysseus Elytis

Constrictor
Clayton Eshleman

Home Remedies
Amy S. Fisher

The City
Nick Foster

His Wife, Folded
Richard Garcia

Days Of 1952
Gary Gildner

Pendulum Of Feeling
Egito Gonçalves

A Report On How It's Gotta Be Hard
James Grabill

Light
Bob Heman

The Invitation
Brian Henry

Art
Susan Holahan

The Problem
David Ignatow

Bus Ride
David Ignatow

The Preparation Of Bone Glue
George Kalamaras

Tohu
Paol Keineg

To snap the signpost . . .
Julius Keleras

Black Box
David Lazar

A Balkan Odyssey
P.H. Liotta

The Weir
P.H. Liotta

When In Rome
Gian Lombardo

On A String
Gian Lombardo

The Stone Flowers
Morton Marcus

The People We Never Heard Of
Morton Marcus

The Prodigal Son: Amnesty
Dionisio D. Martinez

The Prodigal Son Is Spotted On The Grassy Knoll
Dionisio D. Martinez

A Village
Michael Martone

A Resort
Michael Martone

The Body
Gabriela Mistral

The Fig
Gabriela Mistral

Self Portrait As My Father
Kristy Nielsen

All day long . . .
Cees Nooteboom

War Stories
Nina Nyhart

Ars Vox
William Olsen

Bachelorhood
Robert Perchan

Ahead And Behind
Francis Picabia

It is no use reminding myself . . .
Jacques Réda

All sorts of rubbish . . .
Jacques Réda

The fair starts . . .
Jacques Réda

The sole aim of the world . . .
Jacques Réda

Midstream Pantomime, Rio Grande
Daryl Scroggins

Saved
Barry Silesky

Knit-Wit Or, The Thread Of The Story
Jacques Sternberg

The Ball
Brian Swann

My Name
Carine Topal

Max In Egypt
Carine Topal

Not 'Why Build' But 'Which Tools'
Chris Volpe

Bridge
Chris Volpe

What Perhaps You Don't Understand
Diane Wald

Trivial Pursuit
Charles H. Webb

Charlemagne Sends A Proposal Of Marriage To The Empress Irene Of Byzantium
Gail White

Connemara
M.L. Williams

Looking Is A Faulty Glue
Peter Wortsman

Here in Missouri . . .
Gary Young

My mother wouldn't ride . . .
Gary Young

Incognito
Andrew Zawacki

Terry-Cloth Mother, Wire Mother
Gwyn McVay

After Hearing Several Minnesota Women Describe Their Grandmothers
Joan Wolf Prefontaine

Book Reviews

David Ignatow's Against The Evidence: Selected Poems 1934-1994
Donald L. Soucy

The Party Train: A Collection Of North American Prose Poetry, edited by Robert Alexander, Mark Vinz, and C.W. Truesdale; A Curious Architecture: A Selection Of Contemporary Prose Poems, edited by Rupert Loydell and David Miller; Models Of The Universe: An Anthology Of The Prose Poem, edited by Stuart Friebert and David Young
John Bradley

Jacques Réda's The Ruins Of Paris
John Taylor

Ken Smith's A Book Of Chinese Whispers
John Taylor

Kenneth Koch's Hotel Lambosa; Jessica Treat's A Robber In The House; Nin Andrews's The Book Of Orgasms
Elizabeth Willis

Gian Lombardo's Sky Open Again
Brian Henry

Other Material

Selected Bibliography

Editors

Editor: Peter Johnson
Assistant Editors: Brian Johnson; Karen Klingon
Advisory Editor: Donald L. Soucy
Contributing Editors: Robert Bly, Russell Edson, David Ignatow, Sibyl James, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Charles Simic
Staff: James Carroll, Sherri Dupuis, Betsy Duryea, Jean Hopkinson, Kurt Johnson, and Cathy Walsh