Fall & Winter 1995

VOLUME 14 - NO. 1 & 2

Fall & Winter 1995

TABLE OF CONTENTS

	SPECIAL SECTION: Patricia Hampl
	First Person Singular: An Interview wIth Patricia Hampl
	Look at a Teacup
	From*Virgin Time:* Faith
	From the"Afterword"ofA Romantic Education
	From*Woman Before An Aquarium:* Dream After Travel: Prague
	Elegy for the Burned
	From*Resort:* VII
	The Moment
	Summer Sublet
	Solo
	The White Gate
	Six Chapters from*Spillville:*
	Arrows
	Laughing Water
	Big Moon
	Departure
	Minnehaha
	The Wave
	The Need to Say It
	Memory and Imagination

	PATRICIA HAMPL is the highly acclaimed author of five books and a body of uncollected stories, poems, essays, and reviews. Her books include: A Romantic Education, a memoir about her Czech heritage; Spillville, a meditation on Antonin Dvorak’s summer in Iowa; Virgin Time, a memoir about her Catholic upbringing and an inquiry into contemplative life; and two collections of poetry, Woman Before an Aquarium and Resort and Other Poems. Her uncollected stories, poems, and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including The New Yorker, Ms., and The Best American Short Stories. Hampl is also the editor of The Houghton Mifflin Anthology of Short Fiction and Burning Bright: A Daybook of Sacred Poetry. The Los Angeles Times states, "Hampl’s ideas are grounded in the instincts and experience of a wise and full heart." She also has the special ability to reveal the magic in the commonplace. As The New York Times Book Review observed: "Under Miss Hampl’s loving scrutiny, the smallest details take their place in a universe where everything is luminous with memory and its astonishing connections." Hampl has received fellowhips from the Guggenheim Foundation, Bush Foundation, Ingram Merrill Foundation, Djerassi Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts, and in 1990 she was awarded a five-year MacArthur Fellowship. She is currently a 1995 Fulbright Fellow and a Professor of English at the University of Minnesota.

	FICTION

	Oh Yeah	Peter Finch
	Peter Finch is a Welsh writer living in Cardiff. He has published one collection of short fiction, Between 35 and 42 (Alun Books), and numerous volumes of poetry. Finch currently runs the Oriel Bookshop for the Arts Council of Wales.

	Vaulting	Patricia Fitzgerald
	Patricia Fitzgerald's stories have appeared in The Emerson Review and Calliope II.

	Guys	Rick Barba
	Rick Barba has published stories from his recently completed collection in Black Warrior Review, The Quarterly, Quarry West, Chicago Review, Kansas Quarterly, and other journals. "Guys" is the title story from the collection.

	His Chorus	Christine Schutt
	Christine Schutt has won a Pushcart prize and published stories in The Quarterly, The American Voice, and several anthologies including The Unmade Bed, edited by Laura Chester and published by HarperCollins. "His Chorus" is part of her collection of stories, Nightwork, to be published by Knopf.

	Sick Leave	Karen Heuler
	Karen Heuler's stories have appeared in TriQuarterly, Ms Magazine, Carolina Quarterly, Massachusetts Review, and other journals. She works as a computer systems manager for a magazine in New York City.

	The Artist in the House of Ham	Beth Kephart Sulit
	Beth Kephart Sulit has recent stories in Seattle Review, Laurel Review, and Iris.

	Count Baldi's Letter	Frank Michel
	Frank Michel's stories have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Indiana Review, Glimmer Train Stories, and Confrontation.

	POETRY Guest Editor: Stuart Dybek

	In Daylight	Stuart Dischell
	Sunday Dinner
	The Spider
	Stuart Dischell is the author of Good Hope Road (Viking Penguin), a 1991 National Poetry Series Selection, and Evenings & Avenues forthcoming from Penguin.

	No Moon	Nancy Eimers
	A Night Without Stars
	Nancy Eimers' book of poetry, Destroying Angel, was published by Wesleyan University Press. She has recent poems in The Paris Review, TriQuarterly, and Poetry Northwest.

	The Difference	Hayden Carruth
	In the Long Hall
	Hayden Carruth has published 29 books (chiefly poetry), a novel, four books of criticism, and two anthologies. His most recent books are Suicides and Jazzers (1992), The Collected Shorter Poems, 1946-1991 (1992), and The Collected Longer Poems (1994). His Selected Essays will be published in fall 1995. He has been editor of Poetry, poetry editor of Harper’s, and for 20 years an advisory editor of The Hudson Review.

	Six Poems by Luxorius	Translations by Art Beck
	Art Beck has published two books of poetry and two books of translations, one a selection of Rilke and the other a selection of Luxorius, entitled Simply to See. Ongoing projects include translation of all 90 extant Luxorius poems.

	Ancient Teaching	Stephen Dobyns
	What They Do Always
	Homeric Offering
	Sketching Hector's Eye
	Stephen Dobyns' most recent book of poems is Velocities: New and Selected Poems, 1966-1992, published by Viking in 1994. In January 1996, Viking will publish his ninth book of poems, Common Carnage. His most recent novels include The Wrestler’s Cruel Study (Norton, 1993) and Saratoga Backtalk, a mystery novel (Norton 1994). Saratoga Fleshpot will appear in July 1995.

	*Sleeping Beauty:*An Alternative Reading	Paulette Roeske
	Paulette Roeske's second book of poems, Divine Attention, was published by Louisiana State University Press. Her poems have appeared in recent issues of Poetry East, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Poetry Northwest.

	Miasma	Amy Gerstler
	Dog World
	Blur
	Amy Gerstler is a writer of poetry, fiction, and journalism. Her most recent book of poems is Nerve Storm (Viking Penguin, 1993). Her book Bitter Angel, won the Book Critics’ Circle Award for Poetry in 1990.

	The Laughter of Women	Lisel Mueller
	Lisel Mueller is the author of five volumes of poetry, including The Need to Hold Still, which won the National Book Award. Her New and Selected Poems is forthcoming from Louisiana State University Press.

	Rage	Reginald Gibbons
	Reginald Gibbons is the author of four books of poems and most recently a novel, Sweetbitter (Broken Moon Press). He is the editor of TriQuarterly magazine.

	Khartoum Dinner Light	Terese Svoboda
	Terese Svoboda's third book of poems, Mere Mortals, was published by the University of Georgia. Her first novel, Cannibal, won the Bobst Award and was selected as one of the top ten books of the year by SPIN magazine.

	Library	D.C. Berry
	D.C. Berry's poems have appeared in Poetry, The Chicago Review, and The New England Review.

	Youths Adrift in a New Germany Turn to Neo-Nazis	David Breskin
	A Small Boy, Your Son
	David Breskin's poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, TriQuarterly, Salmagundi, Harvard magazine, and Poetry East.

	Two Preludes	James McManus
	James McManus' poems have appeared in the 1991 and 1994 editions of The Best American Poetry. "Two Preludes" is from an in-progress sequence. Five other poems from this sequence appeared in The Paris Review. McManus’s fourth novel, Going to the Sun, will be published by HarperCollins early in 1996.

	This Dance	John Rybicki
	John Rybicki's poems have appeared in The Quarterly, Poetry East, Yankee, New York Quarterly, and other journals.

	Aliens	Kim Addonizio
	Tell Me
	Flood
	Salmon
	Target
	Kim Addonizio is the author of a book of poems, The Philosopher’s Clue (BOA Editions, 1994), which received the Great Lakes Colleges Association Award. Her other awards include two NEA fellowships. Recent work can be found in American Poetry Review, Gettysburg Review, and Threepenny Review. She is a contributing editor of ZIPZAP, an e-zine on the World Wide Web.

	Anna Akhmatova Spends the Night on Miami Beach	John Balaban
	John Balaban is the author of several books of prose and poetry, including Words For My Daughter, selected for the National Poetry Series.