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THE PARIS REVIEW No. 102
Spring 1987 |
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“For years, I’ve tried to stare at a piece of paper for a while every day. It tends to turn one into a kind of monster”: W. S. Merwin on the Art of Poetry.
Cynthia Ozick on why ego is boring, and fear of the large novel.
Stories by Alice Adams, Rick Bass, and Joan Silber. Poems by Charles Baxter, John Koethe, and William Matthews. |
| TABLE OF CONTENTS |
| INTERVIEW |
| W. S. Merwin, The Art of Poetry No. 38 | | Cynthia Ozick, The Art of Fiction No. 95 |
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| FICTION |
| Alice Adams, Ocracoke Island | | Rick Bass, Where the Sea Used to Be | | Jonathan Penner, Smoke | | Joan Silber, The City, Seen from the Water, 1924 |
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| POETRY |
| Charles Baxter, Four Poems | | Lavinia Blossom, Mr. Berg Waves to the Sky | | Douglas Crase, Dog Star Sale | | Tim Dlugos, Two Poems | | Ian Ganassi, Partial Explanation | | Peyton Houston, Ode | | Carolyn Kizer, Gerda | | John Koethe, Mistral | | J. Martin, My Friend, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and the Force of My Friendship with Wittgenstein the Young Man and Architect | | William Matthews, April in the Berkshires | | Laura Mullen, The Surface | | Eileen Myles, Mad Pepper | | Ron Padgett, Three Poems | | Molly Peacock, Three Poems | | Hugh Seidman, Four Poems | | Charles Simic, Two Poems | | Eleanor Ross Taylor, No | | Baron Wormser, Two Poems |
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| ART |
| Picasso, Picasso's Women | | Myron Stout, Untitled |
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