12.2 | SPRING 1986

MASTHEAD

EDITOR: Lynn Domina                      MANAGING EDITOR: Thomas Alan Holmes

FICTION EDITOR: Tom Chiarella      POETRY EDITOR: Janet McAdams

PRODUCTION MANAGER: Ed Howard

EDITORIAL STAFF: Jon Brooks, Mary Anne Ellis, Richard Giles, Laura Hendrie, Paul Johnson, Jane Kuenz, Nancy Loeb, Jeff Mock, Rob Trucks, Amber Vogel, Ken Walters

OFFICE MANAGERS: Melissa Hamilton, Amber Vogel

FICTION

Francois Camoin: American Literature

Kent Nussey: In Christ There Is No East or West

Marjorie Sandor: A Night of Music

Gerald Shapiro: At the Restaurant, Waiting, for Betty

Robert Whitaker: Tribal Dues

POETRY

Stephen M. Gibson: Arsenic 

Albert Goldbarth: Human Time  |  Fossil Music  |  Zenbu

Stephanie Hallgren: The Mekong River Poem

Lynne McMahon: The New Days

Barbara Molloy: Force

Elizabeth A. Price: Life of Crime

Pattiann Rogers: The Way of Creation

Kenneth Schexnayder: Departure

Peggy Shumaker: the Circle of Totems

Maurya Simon: Vermeer’s Women

Sandra Sprayberry: Year’s End

Richard Weaver: Rain 

Rex Wilder: Lonely Man Confronts the World’s Problems from His Living Room

Cooley Windsor: Saving Lot

FEATURE

Interview

Enid Shomer: An Interview with Bobbie Ann Mason

Reviews

Stephen Haven  |  Gabby Hyman  |  Kay A. Murphy  |  Louie Skipper  |  Allen Wier

ART

Gay Burke: Untitled (cover)