From the Book - 1985-86 ed.
Introduction / George Plimpton
Quantum Jumps / Tim O'Brien
Hemingway's wound, and its consequences for American literature / Malcolm Cowley
Fundamental project of technology / Galway Kinnell
Sorrow and rapture / Maura Stanton
The art of seeing with one's own eyes / Sharon Doubiago
Turning out / Gayle Whittier
Shooting / August Klenzaher
Dinosaurs of the Hollywood Delta / Gerald Costanzo
Whiskey, whiskey, gin, gin, gin / Gordon Weaver
The secret lion / Alberto Alvaro Rios
The circumcision rites of the Toronto Stock Exchange / Crad Kilodney
Big brother is you, watching / Mark Crispin Miller
Child's grave, Hale County, Alabama / Jim Simmerman
The librarian of Alexandria / Barry Goldensohn
The consolation of touch / Bin Ramke
The Hector Quesadilla story / T. Coraghessan Boyle
Agriculture / William Kittredge
Cloud painter / Jane Flanders
Birthday star atlas / Charles Simic
Heaven and earth / Antonio Benitez-Rojo
The Easter we lived in Detroit / Janet Kauffman
Kodiak widow / Sheila Nickerson
Dog fight / Charles Bukowski
from The great pretender / James Atlas
Dickinson / Martha Collins
A Setting / Donald Revell
Greenbaum, O'Reilly & Stephens / Kenneth Gangemi
Under another name / Doris Lessing
Rain country / John Haines
Where we are / Stephen Dobyns
from The Cripple Liberation Front Marching Band blues / Lorenzo Wilson Milam
Hot day on the Gold Coast / Bob Shacochis
The meal / Suzanne E. Berger
Why I'm in favor of a nuclear freeze / Christopher Buckley
Sarah Cole : a type of love story / Russell Banks
The objects of immortality / Pattiann Rogers
For Starr Atkinson, who designed books / Jared Carter
Bohemia revisited : Malcolm Cowley, Jack Kerouac and On the road / Adam Gussow
A poem with no ending / Philip Levine
Death's midwives / Margareta Ekstrom
Season's greetings / Leonard Nathan
Vesper sparrows / Deborah Digges
Wilderness / Vern Rutsala
To future Eleanors / Eleanor Ross Taylor
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