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17:1 Latin American Supplement: Jorge Luis Borges, Pablo Neruda, César Vallejo, José Marti, Nicolás Guillén and others; pop art by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, and Robert Indiana; writing by William S. Burroughs, Yves Bonnefoy, A. R. Ammons, Kenneth Rexroth.
17:2&3 Chicago Writing and Art: fiction by Eugene Wildman and Judith Grossman; poetry by Elder Olson, Jerome Rothenberg, Paul Carroll, Lucien Stryk, and Marvin Bell; visual art by Ivan Albright and Leon Golub; and contributions from 36 others.
17:4 Ivan Turgenev on Hamlet and Don Quixote; poetry by Joan Brossa, Pierre Reverdy, and Gerald Butler; drawings by Virgil Burnett.
18:1 Three Hungarian Poets: Attila József, Dezsö Kosztolányi, and Miklós Radnóti; poetry by Christian Morgenstern; essay by Heinrich Böll.
18:2 Simone Weil on The Iliad; three stories by Akutagawa Ryunosuke; poetry by Dennis Schmitz.
18:3&4 Four Chilean Poets: Efrain Barquero, Nicanor Parra, Alberto Rubio, Jorge Teillier; fiction by Isaac Bashevis Singer, Denise Levertov, and Max Jacob; poetry by James Wright, Richard Hugo, Denise Levertov, Galway Kinnell, Paul Carroll, Donald Hall, and David Wagoner; essays by Denise Levertov, Hugh Kenner, and Northrop Frye; drama by Joan Brossa; interview with Richard Stern.
19:1 Fiction by Rabindranath Tagore, Masuji Ibuse, and Alain Arias-Misson; poetry by David Ray, Sergio Mondragon, and Luis Garcia; translations of Ibn Hazm, René Char, and Guillaume Apollonaire by Robert Bly.
19:2 Poetry by Charles Simic; fiction by Alain Arias-Misson; Mary Ellman on Anaïs Nin and Richard Kostelanetz on Invisible Man.
19:3 Poetry by Lawson Inada, John Logan, and Konstantinos Lardas.
19:4 International Anthology of Concretism.
20:1 Fiction by Dazai Osamu; Henri Michaux's journal; poetry by A. K. Ramanujan, Ron Silliman, Gerard Malanga, and Lucien Stryk; visual art by Karen Stern.
20:2 Fiction by Nancy Willard and Kenji Miyazawa; more of Henri Michaux's journal; poetry by Peter Wild and James Tate.
20:3 Fiction by Kenji Miyazawa and Shouri Ramanujan; poetry by Yannis Ritsos and Ron Silliman.
20:4/21:1 Fantastic Art and Literature: Drama by Vladimir Mayakovsky and Tristan Tzara; poetry by Georg Trakl, Yannis Ritsos, Stephen Dobyns, and Manuel Bandeira.
21:2 Eighteen Postwar Greek Poets: eighteen poets in translation, plus a drama, essay, and reviews.
21:3 Fiction by Nancy Willard and Kenji Miyazawa; poetry by James Tate, André Breton, Rene Daumal, Takis Sinopolous, and Marge Piercy.
21:4 Fifteen Bay Area Poets (edited by David Melnick and Ron Silliman); poetry by Mary Oliver; Frank Triplett on Jesse James.
22:1 Drama by Daryl Hine; poetry by David Ray, Jeremy Bentham, George Starbuck, and Charles Bukowski; essays by Nancy Willard, Adrienne Rich, and James Atlas.
22:2&3 Juanita Casey, Murray Ross, Michael Ryan, John Knoepfle, Nathanial Tarn, Louis Ginsberg, Nancy Willard, John Engels, David Ray.
22:4 Poetry by Ron Silliman, Michael S. Harper, Diane DiPrima, David Ray, and Nathanial Tarn; prose by Juanita Casey.
23:1 Jeriann Badanes on street theater; poetry by James Tate, Charles Simic, Eugene Wildman, and Peter Wild; fiction by Alain Arias-Misson.
23:2 Poetry by Jayanta Mahapatra; fiction by Alain Arias-Misson and Eugene Wildman.
23:3 Poetry by Nathanial Tarn and Coralia Theotoka; special feature on Ronald Sukenick.
23:4/24:1 Interview with Saul Bellow; short short story anthology: Eugene Wildman, Nancy Willard, James Tate, and Larry Tyler; poetry by Peter Wild, Jayanta Mahapatra; comic strips by Bill Bergeron.
24:2 The War in Vietnam: five essays, fiction, poetry, and a photo supplement; interview with Anaïs Nin.
24:3 Poetry by A. R. Ammons, Robert Bly, Charles Bukowski, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Howard Nemerov, and Lucien Stryk; essays by Harold Bloom and Chogyam Trungpa.
24:4 Poetry by Colette Inez, W. S. Merwin, and Leslie Silko; fiction by Raymond Carver; essay by Richard Eberhart; photo and art supplement.
25:1 Italian Futurist Poets: Ardengo Soffici, Luciano Folgore, and Paolo Buzzi; poetry by Duane Niatum and Ed Ochester; interview with John Rechy.
25:2 Anthology of Modern Japanese Poets: translations of fourteen poets by Hiroaki Sato; plus a photographic supplement.
25:3 Poetry by Ray DiPalma, Duane BigEagle; fiction by Gilbert Sorrentino and Blaise Cendrars.
25:4 Poetry by John Ashbery, Diane Ackerman, Andrei Codrescu; fiction by John Mella.
26:1 Fiction by Leslie Silko and Robert Creeley; poetry by Jayanta Mahapatra, Anna Akhmatova, Frank O'Hara, Anselm Hollo, John Wieners, and Yannis Ritsos; interview with John Wieners.
26:2 Heimito von Doderer section; poetry by Carolyn Forché.
26:3 Poesia Visiva: Alain Arias-Misson, Sarenco, Luciano Ori, Juri Valoch, Richard Kostelanetz; fiction by Robert Hellenga; poetry by Diane Ackerman and Dave Smith; graphics section.
26:4 Fiction by Joyce Carol Oates and Raymond Federman; poetry by Annie Dillard, Jerome McGann, and Anselm Hollo; interview with James McMichael.
27:1 Talking American Poetry: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Nikki Giovanni, Jim Barnes, Dave Smith, David Wagoner, Thomas McGrath, Donald Finkel, Howard Nemerov, Richad Hugo, Charles Wright, Philip Levine, Richard Eberhart, Galway Kinnell, Thom Gunn, William Stafford, Robert Pinsky; interviews with Allen Ginsberg and Louis Simpson.
27:2 Bilingual Latin American Anthology: Jorge Luis Borges, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, Ernesto Cardenal, and fifteen others, with essays by Ricardo Gullon, Rene de Costa, and Agnes Gullon.
27:3 Fiction by Gilbert Sorrentino and Vladimir Maramzin; poetry by Constantine Cavafy, Yannis Ritsos, Guillermo Carnero, and Hillel Schwartz; essay by Rebecca West.
27:4 Poetry by Jorge Luis Borges, Colette Inez, John Ashbery, and Lucien Stryk; interview with Margaret Atwood.
28:1 Fiction by Stuart Dybek and Alain Robbe-Grillet; poetry by Charles Simic, Jayanta Mahapatra, W. S. Merwin, and Joao Cabral de Melo Neto; essays by Françoise Meltzer, W. S. DiPiero, Stephen Melville, Robert von Hallberg.
28:2 Fiction by Bo Ball and Beth Tashery Shannon; poetry by Peter Wild, David Wagoner, Kenneth Rexroth, and Ray A. Young Bear; interview with John Hawkes.
28:3 Chicago Now: Angela Jackson, Paul Carroll, Lisel Mueller, Albert Goldbarth, David Ray; Ihab Hassan, Jorge Luis Borges, and Nathalie Sarraute.
28:4 Poetry by A. R. Ammons, Andrei Codrescu, Jim Barnes; prose by Yves Bonnefoy and Christopher Middleton; fiction by Joyce Carol Oates and Raymond Federman; interview with Mark Strand.
29:1 Poetry by David Wagoner and Maxine Kumin; interview with Diane Wakoski; essays by Jay Parini, Paul Metcalf, and Larry McCaffery; letters by Franz Kafka.
29:2 Poetry by Michael Palmer and Lucien Stryk; fiction by Vladimir Voinovich; essays and reviews by Calvin Bedient, John Callahan, and Stephen Melville.
29:3 Contemporary Literature in German: Thomas Bernhard, Ernst Jandl, Paul Celan, Günter Grass, Emmanuel Levinas, and 22 others.
29:4 Poetry by Ai and Yves Bonnefoy; prose by Reginald Gibbons; photography section.
30:1 Fiction by Julio Cortazar and Edmund White; poetry by Maxine Chernoff, Turner Cassity, and William Stafford.
30:2 The Art of Translating Poetry: Rumi, Miklos Radnoti, Sandor Csoori, Mario Lunetta, and others; poetry by Robert Pinsky.
30:3 Black Mountain and Since: Objectivist Writing in America: essays by Charles Altieri, Charles Olson, Denise Levertov, Robert Duncan, Fielding Dawson, Edward Dorn, and Paul Metcalf; poetry by Carl Rakosi, Edward Dorn, Jackson MacLow, David Ignatow, William Stafford, Denise Levertov, Todd Gitlin, and others.
30:4 Fiction by Lynn Sharon Schwartz and Elizabeth Harris; poetry by Paul Hoover, Todd Gitlin, and Hans Carl Artmann.
31:1 Poetry by Sandra McPherson, Lisel Mueller, and Alvin Greenberg; fiction by Peter Handke and Bo Ball; Buzz Spector on Documenta, with art by Walter DeMaria, Richard Nonas, and Cy Twombly; Mas'ud Zavarzadeh on the critic as riot police.
31:2 Poetry by Peter Wild, Amy Clampitt, and Andrew Schelling; prose by W. S. Di Piero; art supplement.
31:3 Poetry by Aliki Barnstone, Alamgir Hashmi, and Richard Grossman; fiction by Stephen Dixon; interviews with Jorge Luis Borges and Richard Stern; art supplement.
31:4 Recent Fiction Et Cetera: Eric Basso, Richard Burgin, Larry McCaffery; poetry by David Wagoner, Miguel Hernandez, Andrew Schelling, and Willis Barnstone.
32:1 Fiction: Beth Tashery Shannon, Eric Basso, Frederick Barthelme; poetry by Paul Hoover; art supplement; more fiction et cetera.
32:2 Fiction by Stephen Dixon; poetry by Robert Benajoun, Jan ·stergren, and Philippe Denis.
32:3 The French New Philosophers: Guy Lardreau, Jean-Paul Dollé, Christian Jambet; essays by Sherry Turkle and Raymond Aron.
32:4 Poetry by Peter Wild, Alan Shapiro, and Catullus; fiction by Bo Ball; interview with Robert Hass.
33:1 Fiction by Beverly Brown and Harold Jaffe; poetry by Jim Powell, Brian Swann, Turner Cassity, and Anna Akhmatova.
33:2 In/Re/novative Fiction: Samuel Beckett, Charles Krance, Beth Tashery Shannon; poetry by Alan Shapiro, Patiann Rogers, W. S. DiPiero, and Turner Cassity; interview with Tim O'Brien.
33:3 In/Re/novative Fiction, Part II: Beverly Brown, Gilbert Sorrentino; poetry by Jim Powell, Raymond Oliver, and Patiann Rogers; Alan Shapiro on Robert Hass.
33:4 Fiction by Stephen Dixon and Frederick Barthelme; poetry by W. S. Di Piero and Alan Shapiro.
34:1 Donald Davie on Turner Cassity; poetry by Turner Cassity, Colette Inez, and Mary Kinzie; fiction by Catherine Scherer.
34:2 Poetry and Politics: essays by Gerald Bruns, Hugh Kenner, and Marjorie Perloff; poetry by Jim Powell, Turner Cassity, and Jerome McGann.
34:3 Poetry by Jared Carter, Donald Finkel, Andrew Hudgins, Eleanor Wilner, and Patiann Rogers.
34:4 Poetry by Eleanor Wilner, Tom Disch, and Hillel Schwartz; fiction by Bo Ball; essays by James Redfield, Saul Yurkievich, and Andre Levinson.
35:1 Tribute to J. V. Cunningham: Robert Pinsky, W. S. DiPiero, Thom Gunn, Raymond Oliver, Alan Shapiro, and Kenneth Fields; poetry by Turner Cassity, Andrew Hudgins, and Pindar; interview with Paul Muldoon.
35:2 Poetry by Mary Kinzie, Willis Barnstone, and Andrew Hudgins; essays by Ulla Dydo, Tony Mendoza, and Emma Kafalenos.
35:3 Poetry by Eavan Boland, Nance Van Winckel, and J. B. Goodenough; fiction by Catherine Scherer.
35:4 Postmodernism: Charles Jencks, Jean Franco, Gianni Vattimo, and John Keane; poetry by Vladimir Nabokov, Anna Akhmatova, Cesare Pavese, Jay Parini, and Turner Cassity.
36:1 Poetry by Jim Powell, Michael Donaghy, and Keith Tuma.
36:2 Interview with Raymond Carver; poetry by Kathleen Norris, Michael Donaghy, and Eugene Dubnov.
36:3&4 Poetry by Martha Vertreace, Kathleen Norris, and Susan Schultz; essays by Peter Bertolette and Keith Tuma.
37:1 Neglected Poets: Essays by Jim Powell, W. S. DiPiero, Jared Carter, Turner Cassity, Janet Lewis, Ronald Johnson, Andrew Hudgins, Lisa Steinman, and Jerry Rosco on forgotten poets.
37:2&3 Interviews with T. Coraghessan Boyle and Greil Marcus; poetry by Jonah Winter, Jeff Worley, and Kathleen Spivack; fiction by Chuck Rosenthal, Catherine Scherer, Ian MacMillan, Rikki Ducornet, and Michael Collins.
37:4 Poetry by Jonah Winter, Adrian C. Louis, Marilyn Krysl, and Donald Finkel; fiction by Craig Curtis and Jay Monath; essays by Tom Jay and Kenneth King.
38:3 Poetry by Juan Carlos Vargas and Cesare Pavese; fiction by Barry Hannah, Morteza Miraftabi, and Thomas Barbash; essay by William Olsen.
38:4 On Los Angeles: Luis J. Rodriquez, Mike Davis interview; On Donald Harington: an interview, three essays, and an excerpt from Ekaterina; On John Cage: Charles Junkerman and Richard Kostelanetz; poetry by Gabriel Spera, Jonah Winter, David Harsent, Adrian C. Louis, William Olsen, and Cesare Pavese; fiction by Anna Esaki-Smith and Joan Frank.
39:1 An interview with Edward Dorn; poetry by Billy Collins, Nance Van Winckel, Jeff Worley, Reginald Gibbons, and Susan Firer; fiction by Jack Butler and Michael David Brown.
39:2 Letters of the Marquis de Sade, with an essay by Paul Weidmann; poetry by David Wojahn, Susan Sink, and Catherine Hammond; Croatian travelogue by Josip Novakovich; fiction by Morteza Miraftabi and Ernesto Cardenal.
40:1 On Bruno Schulz: essays by David Jarrett, Tadeusz Rachwal, and Andrew Lakritz, plus a translation of Schulz's "The Republic of Dreams"; poetry by Alice Fulton and Paul Lindholdt; fiction by Mathew Chacko and Ian McGuire.
40:2&3 Poetry and Mass Culture: poetry by Reginald Shepherd, Yusef Komunyakaa, Albert Goldbarth, David Wojahn, Mark Halliday, Elizabeth Alexander, and 30 others; interviews with David Wojahn and John Giorno; a libretto by Robert Daly; plus essays on "poetry slams," both real and virtual.
40:4 Poetry by Jane Miller and Steve Langan; fiction by Stepan Chapman and Moniroo Ravanipoor; essays by William Olsen and Zhou Xiaojing; and an interview with John Barth.
41:1 Poetry by Mark Halliday, Edward Hirsch, Charles Simic, and Maura Stanton; fiction by Robert Hildt and Wayne Dixon; and an interview with Edward Hirsch.
41:2&3 From Chicago: Poetry by Paul Hoover, Elizabeth Alexander, and 12 others; fiction by Maxine Chernoff and Ronica Bhattacharya; interviews with Leon Forrest and Charles Simic; David Ray's memoir of Nelson Algren; plus reviews of Chicago authors.
41:4 Poetry by Mark Halliday, August Kleinzahler, Mekeel McBride, Nathaniel Mackey, Jim Daniels; fiction by Jiri Kajanë, Ha Jin, and Ira Sher's "The Man in the Well."
42:1 On Ronald Johnson's ARK: selections from ARK, essays, and an interview with the poet; Poetry by William Bronk, Peter Gizzi, Fanny Howe, and Peyton Houston; fiction by Fernando Arrojo.
42:2 Poetry by Norma Cole, John Taggart, Ray DiPalma, Carl Rakosi; fiction by Greg Johnson, Tomás Filer; essay by Rick Zollo.
42:3&4 Fifty Years: A Retrospective Issue: Works by Kenneth Patchen, Tennessee Williams, Galway Kinnell, William Carlos Williams, Henry Miller, Conald Hall, Philip Roth, Paul Carroll, Philip Booth, John Hollander, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jack Kerouqc, Robert Duncan, William S. Burroughs, Alan Watts, Allen Ginsberg, Anaïs Nin, Ronald Tavel, Denise Levertov, and others. THIS ISSUE IS OUT OF STOCK
43:1 On Nathaniel Mackey: selections from Atet A.D. and an interview with the poet; poetry by Phillip Foss, Barbara Guest, Medbh McGuckian, Hilda Morley, Robert Bly; fiction by Mario Benedetti.
43:2 On Ron Padgett: new poems, translation, collaborative artwork, essay by Clayton Eshleman; poetry by Pamela Lu, Larry Price, Ted Pearson; fiction by Tricia Wang; interviews with Peter Carey and Harry Mathews.
43:3 Poetry by Peter Russell, Peter Riley, Emmanuel Hocquard, Simon Cutts, and Kathleen Fraser; fiction by Doris Dörrie; essays by Keith Tuma and Jonathan Williams. THIS ISSUE IS OUT OF STOCK
43:4 Contemporary Poetry and Poetics Works by Paul Hoover, Susan Howe, Alan Golding, Jed Rasula, John Shoptaw, Lewis Ellingham & Kevin Killian, Barbara Jordan, Michael Heller, Brenda Hillman, Mark Halliday, Amiri Baraka, Derek Mahon, Keith Tuma, Ann Carson, and others.
44:1 On Paul Carroll: late poems, criticism, and an essay by Paul Hoover. Poetry by Tom Pickard and Julianna Spahr; fiction by Tom House; essay by Alice Notley; interview with Robert Duncan.
44:2 Poetry by Martin Corless-Smith, Linh Dinh, Paul Vangelisti, John Koethe, Colin Simms; fiction by Hollis Seamon and John Kawano; an essay by John Taggart on George Oppen.
44:3&4 On Peter Dale Scott: new poems, and essays by David Gewanter, Alan Williamson, Daria Donnelly and others; On Basil Bunting: essays by Tom Pickard, Colin Simms, Bill Griffiths, and John Seed; poems by Hank Lazer, Tomaz Salamun, Ciaran Carson, Eleanor Wilner, Cole Swenson, and others; fiction by Rachel Harper and Andre Carpentier.
45:1 Poems by Laton Carter, Michael Longley, John Taggart, Eleni Sikelianos; fiction by Wendell Mayo; essays by Clayton Eshleman, Alice Notley, and Mark Halliday.
45:2 On Robert Duncan: chapter from Lisa Jarnot's biography, Duncan's Introductions to readings at the Poetry Center; poems by John Matthias, Arthur Sze, Ed Dorn, Jeff Clark, Claire Malroux, Elizabeth Willis, Robert Adamson and Allen Grossman; fiction by Neil Durando and Rebecca Brown; essays by Mark Halliday and Paul Green.
45:3&4 Peter Blegvad: Writings and Cartoons; poems by Ciaran Carson, Ray DiPalma, David Gewanter, Anselm Hollo, Lucia Perillo, Alan Williamson, Jesper Svenbro, Marcin Sendecki, Chelsey Minnis, Frank Samperi, John Seed; fiction by Robert Walser, Dennis Barone, Martha Ronk, Christina Milletti; interviews with Richard Stern and Ciaran Carson; essays by Paul Hoover and Mark Halliday.
46:1 Poems by Heather McHugh, Tom Pickard, Thalia Field, James Taylor, Rosmarie Waldrop, Kelvin Corcoran, Elizabeth Alexander, Colin Simms, Sandor Csoori, and William Fuller; fiction by Stephen Beachy, Tom House, Devon Jackson, Ingeborg Bachmann, and Brian Evenson; a memoir by Tom Pickard; an essay by Hank Lazer on Armand Schwerner; and thirty pages of Reviews, Notes, and Comments.
46:2 Poems by Campbell McGrath, Laton Carter, Vona Groarke, Conor O'Callaghan, Bill Berkson, Forrest Gander, Jane Mead, and Laura Mullen; fiction by Christopher Middleton, Ben Miller, Daniela Fischerova, and Paul Maliszewski; essays by Maria Finn (on "Pigeon Mumbling") and Paul Naylor (on Ron Johnson); and fifty pages of Reviews, Notes, and Comments.
46:3&4 NEW POLISH WRITING This 400-page anthology is the first and most comprehensive survey in English of Polish writing since the end of Communist rule. Among the 50 poets included in this selection are the generation of poets born before World War II, such as Herbert, Milosz, and Szymborska, as well as the less visible but no less remarkable Jerzy Ficowski, Julia Hartwig, Ursula Koziol, and Tadeusz Rozewicz. The "Generation of 1968," a.k.a, the "New Wave"(which includes Stanislaw Baranczak, Julian Kornhauser, Ryszard Krynicki, Ewa Lipska, and Adam Zagajewski) is well represented, as are many other poets of the middle generation, like Piotr Sommer, Ewa Lipska, and Bronislaw Maj. And there is a substantial selection of work by younger poets like Andrzej Sosnowski, Marcin Swietlicki, Jacek Podsiadlo, Marcin Sendecki, and Marzanna Bogumila Kielar, as well as documents by the writers associated with the counter-culture journal bruLion, a school of poets sometimes known under the rubric of "[Frank] O'Harism." Literary prose by several generations of authors is amply represented as well. There are excerpts from the late Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski's Diary Written at Night, a short story by Henryk Grynberg, recent short prose by Slawomir Mrozek, feuilletons by Pawel Huelle, and novel excerpts by Aleksander Jurewicz and Stefan Chwin. Likewise, this issue contains work by some of Poland's most exciting younger prose writers, including Andrzej Stasiuk, Magdalena Tulli, Natasza Goerke, Olga Tokarczuk, and Piotr Szewc, to name a few. This issue costs $10.
47:1 Poems by Rae Armantrout, Elizabeth Arnold, David Blair, Caroline Crumpacker, Stacy Doris, Ted Enslin, Philip Jenks, Ronald Johnson, Catherine Kasper, Ralph J. Mills, Jr., Geoffrey Nutter, Pam Rehm, Dennis Schmitz, Juliana Spahr, Marjorie Welish, Anne Winters, and Mark Wunderlich. A story by Federigo Tozzi (trans. by Minna Proctor); essays by Nate Dorward (on Tom Raworth), Mark Halliday (on Allen Grossman), Nigel Wheale (on Peter Riley), and Andrew Yaphe (on John Koethe); and thirty-five pages of Reviews, Notes, and Comments.
47:2 Poems by Kenneth Fields, John Gallagher, Timothy Liu, Carol Moldaw, John O'Leary, Cole Swensen, John Taggart , Ko Un, David Ray Vance. Stories by Eugene Dubnov and J.M.G. Le Clézio. Reviews, Notes, and Comments.
47:3 Stories by Fanny Howe, Julian Kudritzki, and Harry Mathews; poems by Andrea Brady, Ray DiPalma, Alan Halsey, Christine Hume, Lisa Jarnot, Devin Johnston, John Latta, J.S.A. Lowe, Sarah Manguso, Reginald Shepherd, Joshua Wiener; interviews with Frank Bidart and Thalia Field; essays by Tony Frazer (on Tuma and Longley), and Scott MacDonald (on Peter Hutton). Reviews, Notes, and Comments.