11.2 | SPRING 1985
MASTHEAD
EDITOR: Gabby Hyman MANAGING EDITOR: Thomas Alan Holmes
FICTION EDITOR: Kim Anne Thomas POETRY EDITOR: Lynn Domina
PRODUCTION MANAGER: Jackie Solomon MANUSCRIPT EDITOR: Terrie Byrne
EDITORIAL STAFF: Mort Ames, Thomas Chiarella, Mary Anne Ellis, John Engels, Jr., Bill Flowers, Michael L. Hall, Paul Johnson, Janet McAdams, Lynn Pruett, Bill Reid, Rick Shelton, Kenna Simmons, Michael Taylor
EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS: Shannon Hurt, Rachel Ward
FICTION
Jonathan Hershey: Looking for Brown Dog
Peter LaSalle: Port-Au-Prince
Valerie Martin: Sea Lovers
Nancy Zafris: The People I Know
POETRY
John Blair: Pig Days
Jeffrey Greene: Fishing over Birds
Albert Goldbarth: The Poem of the Praises
Jay Griswold: Landscape with Train
Gordon Henry: Pine Point: Her Breath | Pine Point: After Rain
Frannie Lindsay: Coming Awake Together
Liza Nelson: Wild Salad
Charlie Smith: Doctor Auchincloss Bids Goodbye to His Wife | Monkey Bridge | Jehovah’s Witness | Kings | Red Roads | The New World
James Ulmer:
FEATURE
The Contemporary Essay
Hal Crowther: Surviving Cynicism
Leon Edel: Myth and Media: The Fractured Imagination
John Irving: The Narrative Voice
William Matthews: A Poet’s Alphabet
Al Young: A Little Homemade Greed: American Style
ART
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, University of Alabama: photograph of Elbert J. Boozer (cover)
Greg Pio: Three Urban Studies