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Read the winning piece of our 2025 Nonfiction Contest “Through the Mirror” by Jessie Cato selected by Lucy Ives.

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Autumn 1982

Vol. IV No. 4

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- Editorial
  - Frederick Turner
    Editorial: The Uses of Vulgarity
- Nonfiction
  - London Ganning
    From a Dictionary of Bad Manners
  - Steven Kovács
    The Manure Inspector
  - John Vernon
    Reading, Writing, and Eavesdropping: Some Thoughts on the Nature of Realistic Fiction
  - Thomas Frick
    Ghost Texts: Film about Writing/Writing about Film
- Fiction
  - Robert Pinsky
    Mr. Mintser
  - Philip Schultz
    Upstart Crows: An Excerpt from the Novel
  - Janet Lindquist Black
    Loyal Opposites
  - Melissa Brown Pritchard
    A Private Landscape
- Poetry
  - Tom Disch
    Delaunay’s “La Tour Eiffel”
  - John Woods
    Repeal of the Leash Laws
  - Carl Dennis
    Why Your Numbers Do Not Increase
  - Carl Dennis
    Shakespeare in Delaware Park
  - Joseph M. Ditta
    The Book of Friends #5 (R L)
  - László Nagy
    Hurrah for Trees!
  - Diane Ackerman
    Zoë
  - Charles Edward Eaton
    The Barge
  - Charles Edward Eaton
    The Hammer Thrower
  - Charles Edward Eaton
    Blue Snapper Blues
Summer 1982

Vol. IV No. 3

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- Contemporary American Poetry
  - Amy Clampitt
    The Reedbeds of the Hackensack
  - Amy Clampitt
    Rain at Bellagio
  - Amy Clampitt
    Olympia
  - Amy Clampitt
    Imago
  - Jordan Smith
    A Sad Pavan for These Distracted Times
  - Philip Schultz
    Ode to Desire
  - Philip Schultz
    For My Mother
  - Philip Schultz
    A Guide for the Perplexed
  - Michael S. Harper
    Memorial Meetings
  - Michael S. Harper
    Horse-Trading
  - Michael S. Harper
    For My Father
  - Irving Feldman
    In Old San Juan
  - Irving Feldman
    A Crone’s Tale
  - Rita Dove
    Grape Sherbet
  - Andrew Hudgins
    One of Solomon’s Concubines, Dying, Exults in Her Virginity
  - Andrew Hudgins
    Bolus
  - Anne Halley
    Our Journey to Ghent
  - Frederick Feirstein
    To My Younger Self
  - Frederick Feirstein
    The Abortion
  - Frederick Feirstein
    The Eyes
  - John Matthias
    To V V: On Our Translation of the Kossovo Fragments
  - From the Kossovo Fragments: The Mother of the Jugovici
  - Emily Grosholz
    The Dissolution of the Rainbow
  - Emily Grosholz
    Marathon
  - Dick Allen
    From the Space Sonnets
  - James Merrill
    Caesarion
- Nonfiction
  - John Eaton
    Stories That Break into Song: Choosing Plots for Opera
  - Robert Cantwell
    Bill Monroe at Capitol Center
- Fiction
  - Jewell Smith
    How It Had to Be
  - Lynda Sexson
    Margaret of the Imperfections
Spring 1982

Vol. IV No. 2

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- Editorial
  - Frederick Turner
    Editorial: On Translation
- Nonfiction
  - George Steiner
    On an Exact Art (Again)
  - Emery George
    Translating Poetry: Notes on a Solitary Craft
  - Robert Bly
    The Eight Stages of Translation
  - David Finkelstein
    Coherence and Possibility: The Logic of the Innermost Universe
- Mexican Poems
  - Conrad Hilberry
    The Monkey
  - Conrad Hilberry
    Toads
  - Conrad Hilberry
    The Cur
- Poetry
  - Wolfgang Bauer
    Language, You Wretch
  - László Nagy
    The Bells Are Calling for Me
  - Robert Fagles
    From Sophocles’ “Oedipus the King”
  - Judith Moffett
    The Missing Link
Winter 1982

Vol. IV No. 1

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- Fiction
  - Robert Hemenway
    A Picture on the Wall
  - Susan Engberg
    The Lap of Peace
- Nonfiction
  - Michael Tobias
    On Thinking about Oneself
  - Rockwell Gray
    Autobiography Now
  - John J. MacAloon
    Double Visions: Olympic Games and American Culture
- Poetry
  - James Dickey
    Deborah in Ancient Lingerie, in Thin Oak over Creek
  - James Dickey
    Ray-Flowers: I
  - James Dickey
    Ray-Flowers: II
  - James Dickey
    Doorstep, Lightning, Waif-Dreaming
  - James Dickey
    Deborah in Mountain Sound: Bell, Glacier, Rose
  - James Dickey
    The Lode
  - James Moore
    Winter Smoke
  - James Moore
    Snow
  - James Moore
    On My Birthday
  - Margaret Benbow
    Scarlet Fever: 1948
  - Margaret Benbow
    Burlesque Night at Le Cave
  - Brad Leithauser
    The Ghost of a Ghost
  - Galway Kinnell
    The Luna Park Ghost Train
  - Galway Kinnell
    Coinaliste
  - Amy Clampitt
    Triptych
Autumn 1981

Vol. III No. 4

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- Fiction
  - Joyce Carol Oates
    My Warszawa
- Nonfiction
  - Denis Corish
    Confessions of a Solipsist
  - Richard Schechner
    Performers and Spectators Transported and Transformed
- Poetry
  - Rainer Maria Rilke
    Ariel
  - Frederick Turner
    The Multicolored Man
  - Frederick Turner
    A Valediction
  - Frederick Turner
    High May
  - Frederick Turner
    Heroes
  - John Tagliabue
    If you look at this tapestry, if you read this poem, you always want to give gifts
  - John Tagliabue
    Guardians of the Faith
  - Diane Ackerman
    A Red Carillon Whose Berries Are Bells
  - Diane Ackerman
    Sleeping Beauty of the Bronx
  - Llewellyn McKernan
    Mountain Idyll
  - Llewellyn McKernan
    Swimming
  - Brian Swann
    Heron
  - Paul Smyth
    Beginner’s Guide
Summer 1981

Vol. III No. 3

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- Nonfiction
  - Harold Pinter
    Letter to Peter Wood
  - Robert Langbaum
    Freud and Sociobiology: Reflections on the Nature of Genius
- Fiction
  - Janet Lindquist Black
    A Liberal Education
  - David Ives
    Homo Obliteratus
- Contemporary English and Irish Poetry
  - George Steiner
    Contemporary English and Irish Poetry: An Introduction
  - Michael Schmidt
    The Time and the Place
  - Calvin Bedient
    The Thick and the Thin of It: Contemporary British and Irish Poetry
  - Elaine Feinstein
    At Seven a Son
  - Elaine Feinstein
    Coastline
  - Elaine Feinstein
    From “Ten Poems from a City Calendar”
  - Elaine Feinstein
    Our Vegetable Love Shall Grow
  - Elaine Feinstein
    The Celebrants
  - Rodney Pybus
    Loveless Times
  - Rodney Pybus
    Loveless Leaving
  - Rodney Pybus
    Parting Present
  - Christopher Reid
    Three Sacred Places in Japan
  - Craig Raine
    Circus
- Three Young Hungarian Poets
  - Kenneth McRobbie
    Three Young Hungarian Poets: An Introduction
  - Lajos Pintér
    Every Day Something Different
  - Lajos Pintér
    Ballad of When the Going’s Rough
  - Lajos Pintér
    Instead of a Flag
  - György Petri
    Gratitude
  - György Petri
    Onion Speaking
  - Dezső Tandori
    The Rooms
- Poetry
  - Milton Kessler
    Everyone Loves Children
  - Brad Leithauser
    Old Hat
  - Jim Gauer
    The Other Takes the Morning Off
Spring 1981

Vol. III No. 2

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- Fiction
  - Italo Calvino
    “If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler”: An Excerpt from the Novel
  - Günter Grass
    “The Meeting at Telgte”: An Excerpt from the Novel
  - Czeslaw Milosz
    “The Issa Valley”: An Excerpt from the Novel
- Nonfiction
  - D. S. Carne-Ross
    The Beastly House of Atreus
  - Claude Lévi-Strauss
    Structuralism and Myth
- Poetry
  - Philip Schultz
    Dante in Exile
  - Philip Schultz
    Shane
  - Philip Schultz
    Pumpernickel
  - Philip Schultz
    Interior with Arches: After Piranesi
  - Carol Frost
    The Haircut
  - Mary Jo Salter
    Refrain
  - Emily Grosholz
    Reflections on the Transfinite
  - Carl Dennis
    What Has Become of Them
  - Irving Feldman
    They
  - Emery George
    Face
  - Nicholas Kilmer
    The Imagined Garden
Winter 1981

Vol. III No. 1

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- Nonfiction
  - Patricia Hampl
    The Beauty Disease: From “A Romantic Education”
  - Virgil Nemoianu
    Symptoms
- Fiction
  - Stephen Schmidt
    The End of the Week
  - Amy Herrick
    Outerspace
  - Junzo Shono
    A Shoal of Brine Shrimp
  - Albert Goldbarth
    Ellen’s
- Poetry
  - James Moore
    The Valley Called Curve
  - Sharon Olds
    The Call
  - T. Carmi
    At the Stone of Losses
  - Robert Pack
    Trillium
  - Robert Pack
    The Cracked Apple Tree
  - Charles Edward Eaton
    Two Poems: The Woman in Black
  - Charles Edward Eaton
    Two Poems: Sentimental Education
  - David Citino
    The Retired Pastor’s Creed: He Believes
  - Amy Clampitt
    Marginal Employment
  - Gloria Fuertes
    The Camel: The Chevy of the Magi
  - Derek Walcott
    Snow
  - Derek Walcott
    Beach Head
  - Derek Walcott
    Map of the New World
Autumn 1980

Vol. II No. 4

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- Fiction
  - Graham Petrie
    The Frog Princess
  - Barry Hannah
    Ray: An Excerpt from the Novella
  - Michael Tobias
    Sinai
  - T E Holt
    Charybdis
  - Lynda Sexson
    Turning
- Nonfiction
  - Diane Middlebrook
    Making Visible the Common World: Walt Whitman and Feminist Poetry
  - Lewis Hyde
    Transformation & the Labor of Gratitude
- Poetry
  - Frederick Feirstein
    From Manhattan Carnival: A Dramatic Monologue
  - James Reiss
    Whole Hours of Us
  - Margaret Benbow
    Ross’s Eyes
  - Margaret Benbow
    Sauna
  - Margaret Benbow
    Kala
  - Joyce Carol Oates
    The Child-Bride
  - János Pilinszky
    Love’s Desert
  - David Ignatow
    With Horace
  - Michael S. Harper
    News from Fort Ancient
  - Anthony Hecht
    Poem without Anybody
  - Judith Moffett
    Reaching Around
Summer 1980

Vol. II No. 3

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- Editor's Notes
  - Frederick Turner
    Editorial: On the Fall
- Fiction
  - Woody Allen
    Retribution
  - Julio Cortázar
    Manuscript Found in a Pocket
  - Robert Thompson
    Briefing: New Clues to Saint Beatrice’s Early Years
- Nonfiction
  - Paul A. Cantor
    Byron’s “Cain”: A Romantic Version of the Fall
  - Albert Goldbarth
    Notebook
  - George Crumb
    Music: Does It Have a Future?
- Drama
  - Carol S. Lashof
    The Story
- Poetry
  - Amy Clampitt
    Or Consider Prometheus
  - Mykola Bazhan
    Nights of Hoffmann
  - Susan Snively
    Wolves
  - Peter Viereck
    Up
  - Kenneth Burke
    Out of Backwards Sidewise Towards Fromwards (An Attitudinizing Winter-Solstitially)
  - Edwin Watkins
    From Changes
  - William Burns
    Steeler
  - William Burns
    Miler
  - William Burns
    Bjorn
  - William Burns
    Bench Presser
Spring 1980

Vol. II No. 2

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- Editor's Notes
  - Ronald Sharp
    Editorial: Friendship
- Fiction
  - Max Apple
    Small Island Republics
  - Lynda Sexson
    Hamlet’s Planets: Parable 2:b
- Nonfiction
  - R. P. Blackmur
    The Revival: Henry Adams’ Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
  - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    From “The Oak and the Calf”: Memoirs of a Literary Life
  - Richard Sennett
    Authority and Freedom
  - Wayne C. Booth
    “The Way I Loved George Eliot”: Friendship with Books as a Neglected Critical Metaphor
- Poetry
  - Miklós Radnóti
    Rain Falls. It Dries….
  - Miklós Radnóti
    Elegy on the Death of a Hobo
  - Philip Schultz
    Mrs Applebaum’s Sunday Dance Class
  - Philip Schultz
    Ode
  - Miklós Radnóti
    19 April 1931 (Yesterday They Confiscated My New Book)
  - Miklós Radnóti
    Sunday in Summertime
  - Judith Moffett
    Scatsquall in Spring
  - James Dickey
    Purgation
Winter 1980

Vol. II No. 1

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- Fiction
  - Woody Allen
    The Shallowest Man
  - Osman Lins
    Roos and the Cities
  - Guy Davenport
    The Death of Picasso: Het Erewhonisch Schetsboek: Germinal, Floréal, Prairial 1973
  - Eugene Garber
    An Old Dance
  - Rosario Ferré
    The Youngest Doll
- Nonfiction
  - J. T. Fraser
    Out of Plato’s Cave: The Natural History of Time
- Drama
  - Mark Eisman
    Sightlines
- Poetry
  - August Kleinzahler
    The Sausage-Master of Minsk
  - Diane Ackerman
    A Fine, a Private Place
  - Derek Walcott
    Piano Practice
  - Derek Walcott
    A Separate Peace
  - Derek Walcott
    Credit Card
  - David Bergman
    Elective Surgery
  - James Richardson
    Patchwork
  - James Richardson
    An Afterthought
  - Christopher Logue
    GBH: The Fight over the Body of Patroclus: An Account of Books 17 and 18 of the Iliad