8.1 | FALL 1981

MASTHEAD

EDITOR: Michael Pettit                           BUSINESS MANAGER: Shelton Waldrep

FICTION EDITOR: Jon Hershey              POETRY EDITOR: Dev Hathaway

PRODUCTION MANAGER: Michael Quattrini

EDITORIAL STAFF: David Borofka, David Case, Janet Ellis, Clair Gilliland, Steve Howard, Mitch McClure, Rick Shelton, Lynne Davis Spies, Sandra Sprayberry, Elizabeth Thomas

EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS: Barbara Merchant, Honie Weinstein

FICTION

Eugene K. Garber: Death

Ellen Taylor Harwich: Big Bang

Jack Matthews: The Truth of Holcomb Street

Kurt Rheinheiemer: New Weather

Bienvenido N. Santos: Cardboard Lovers

NONFICTION

R.H.W. Dillard: Sailing on Solar Wind

POETRY

Barbara Anderson: Because All Boundaries Are Subject to Slow Change

David Bottoms: In a Pasture Under a Cradled Moon

Stephen Dunn: The Winter We Had to Get Away

Dennis Finnell: Oscar’s Pet Pig  |  Oscar’s Song  |  Oscar’s Whistle

Debora Greger: The Corner of Delicious and Jonathan Streets 

Stephanie Hallgren: Waking Before My Husband

Jonathan Holden: Shoe Store  |  Car Showroom

Garrett Kaoru Hongo: The Legend

William Howell: Handles

Daryl Jones: Triangulation

Greg Kuzma: The Pheasant

John Morgan: Robert Lowell in Juneau  |  The Snake Hunt: Gallup, New Mexico

David Rivard: Walking By  |  Autumn

Mariève Rugo: Red Bird in a White Tree

Vern Rutsala: Speaking Her Lonely Greek  |  A Little Night Music

Brian Swann: Scarlatti and the Black Stove  |  Afterimage

Eric Trethewey: Rabbits for Sale  |  Thinking of Them

James Ulmer: Play Dead

David Weiss: Untitled 

FEATURE

Reviews

Dev Hathaway  |  Jon Hershey

ART

Rebecca Nolin: cover art