15.2 | SPRING/SUMMER 1989

MASTHEAD

EDITOR: Jeff Mock                                          MANAGING EDITOR: Mark Dawson

FICTION EDITOR: Thomas Alan Holmes     POETRY EDITOR: Michelle Elise

PRODUCTION MANAGER: Amanda Crowell

EDITORIAL STAFF: Brenda Bryant, Mark Dawson, Danny Gamble, Alicia Griswold, Betsy Hanzimanolis, Jennifer Horne, J.R. Jones, Matthew Kopka, Charles Laster, Juliella Parsons, Dale Prince, Chris Wiewel

PRODUCTION STAFF: David O. Benson, Susie K. Brooks, Danny Gamble, Dale Prince

FICTION

Tricia Bauer: Pot o’ Gold

Paul Mandelbaum: Tropics

Renée Manfredi: Truants

Frances Hoekstra: Folkloric Dancing and Other Desperate Acts

Cornelia Nixon: Death Angel

NONFICTION

Tony Hoagland: Breaking Down: Lyric Discontinuity in the Poetry of Jane Miller

James Ulmer: Air and Earth: Recent Books by Jorie Graham

POETRY

Eugenio de Andrade: On Japanese Poetry  |  Porto

Ian Ganassi: Dolores

Michael Klein: More Light

Lyn Lifshin: Oh Yes     He Wants to Feel    Happier    Help People

George Looney: Songs I Know by Heart and Love

Stephen McNally: Heavenly

Anurādhā Mahāpātra: Engraving  |  You

Anita Noble: and then  |  like this

Olga Orozco: After Days

Allan Peterson: Talking with Clothes  |  Dressing for Dreams  |  Multiple Lives

Carol J. Pierman: How the World Has Changed  |  Visiting the Shrine  |  Perestroika  |  More Light

Margaret Renkl: Out from the Dark of Trees at Night

Nabaneetā Dev Sen: Beginning and End  |  Return

Nance Van Winckel: Irregular Moons Over the Metro

FEATURE

The Contemporary Art of the American Literary Anecdote

Rick Bass  |  Andre Dubus  |  Billy Field  |  George Garrett  |  Christopher Howell  |  Marcel Smith  |  Laurel Speer  |  Amber Vogel  |  Allen Wier

ART

Jean Buescher & Sharon Long: cover art

CHAPBOOK

Jane Miller: New Body