ISSUE 9.1 – WINTER/SPRING 1997

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FICTION
Baptism Under Fire by Abraham Rodriguez, Jr.
How to Conduct a Courtship by Gordon C. Wilson
Lunar Landings by Natalia Rachel Singer
Night of the Harness, Day of the Truss by Gordon Lish
The Waiter by Matti Megged

INTERVIEW
What the Woods Would Expect of You: An Interview with Rick Bass
A Ghostly Sort of Afterimage: An Interview with Sandra Gilbert

POETRY
Epithalamion and New Zealand Fern Tree by Sandra Gilbert
A Poem About Blue Gills and Chalcedony by David Dodd Lee
Vigil by Joshua McKinney
Mermaids by Kathleen McGookey
The Collectors and Crop Circles by Jem Poster
Spam Haiku Found Epic and A Beaker by Caroline Knox
Abandoned Farmhouse, Southeastern Iowa by Brad Richard
Unhappy Endings by Charles H. Webb
Bewitched: Mother’s Spell, Bewitched: Witch Hunt, and The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Ninth Episode by Michele Pizaro
Wharf at Sunset by Edward Byrne
Rainer Maria Rilke: The Unicorn by Paul Muldoon
Eddie’s Parrot by Michael Waters
Beginnings by Sarah Miller
Rembrandt’s Light by Joel Peckham, Jr.
The Man Who Said He Had Danced With Twyla Tharp by Selima Hill
The Mermaid Double by Michael Goodman
Celebration and Touching You by Hugh Ogden
The Sensitive Boxer by David Starkey

ESSAY
What You Take for the Enemy by Bob Cowser, Jr.

REVIEWS
Sapphire’s American Dreams
Lee Upton’s Approximate Darling
William O’Rourke’s Notts