From the Book - 1986-87 ed.
Introduction / Cynthia Ozick
Not-knowing / Donald Barthelme
Off Port Townsend, one month before the arrival of the U.S.S. Ohio / Henry Carlile
The throne of the third heaven of the nations millennium general assembly / Denis Johnson
Other lives / Francine Prose
Lyrics for Puerto Rican salsa and three soneos by request / Ana Lydia Vega
Property, patriotism and national defense / Wendell Berry
Sunday at St. Christine's in Budapest and a fruitstand nearby / Antonio Cisneros
Mid-plains tornado / Linda Bierds
Eating together / Li-young Lee
Jury selection / Lucia Perillo
Tide of voices / Lynda Hull
The flowers of Bermuda / D.R. MacDonald
Friends and fortunes / Linda Hogan
In a Polish home for the aged (Chicago, 1983) / Edward Hirsch
Morro Rock / Garrett Kaoru Hongo
Delfina Flores and her niece Modesta / Herbert Morris
Don't go to the barn / Tom Sleigh
The island of Ven / Gina Berriault
Today will be a quiet day / Amy Hempel
Quarter to six / Dorianne Laux
I send Mama home / Marilyn Waniek
Plain song / Hayden Carruth
Writing in the cold / Ted Solotaroff
Elegy on Independence Day / Arthur Smith
The biblical garden / John Drury
Amaryllis / Daniel Halpern
The paperboys / John Logan
Somewhere geese are flying / Gary Gildner
The merry chase / Gordon Lish
In the country of last things / Paul Auster
The victims / Richard Burgin
At the death of Kenneth Rexroth / Eliot Weinberger
The foundry garden / Stanley Plumly
The poet at seventeen / Larry Levis
Molly's dog / Alice Adams
Something good for Ginnie / Mary Hood
The noise the hairless make / Stevens Dobyns
What are the days / Colette Inez
The theme of the three caskets / William Matthews
Maria Mitchell in the great beyond with Marilyn Monroe / Carole Oles
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