9.2 | SPRING 1983

MASTHEAD

EDITOR: Dev Hathaway                              PRODUCTION MANAGER: Lynn Rollings

BUSINESS MANAGER: Peter Huggins       OFFICE MANAGER: Rachel Ward

FICTION EDITOR: Rick Shelton                  POETRY EDITOR: Elizabeth Thomas

EDITORIAL STAFF: Michael Alley, Will Blythe, Ron Carroll, Jim Davis, Kelly Dobyns, Lynn Domina, Jon Hershey, Mitch McClure, John C. Morrison, Jeanne Perry, Sandra Sprayberry, Elizabeth Stronge, John Dean Wagner, Martha Wickelhaus

EDITORIAL ASSISTANT: Diane Ridley

COPY EDITOR: Susan Jones

FICTION

François Camoin: Cheerful Wisdom

Alan Cheuse: Garden of the Gods

Jonathan Penner: Highway Robbery

Sharon Sheehe Stark: Heart of the Dutch Country

Allen Wier: from Departing as Air

POETRY

Nancy Esposito: Breakfast Piece

Stephanie Hallgren: The Orbit of Forgot

Jayanta Mahapatra: Dust  |  Sunday

William Matthews: from A Happy Childhood

Greg Pape: Who Was Antonio Azul?  |  Put Your Mother on the Ceiling

Dennis Sampson: Joy of Living Alone

Thomas Swiss: August Outing

James Tate: To a Bunch of Rotten Bananas

Eric Trethewey: Snowbound

Robley Wilson Jr.: Ice

FEATURE

Andrew Dubus: A Father’s Story  |  A Conversation  |  A Laurel for Richard Hugo

Reviews

Michael Pettit  |  David Wojahn

ART

from the University of Alabama Library: The Black Warrior River at flood stage, 1900 (cover)