Fables, Yarns, Fairy Tales
Spring 1992
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Dwarfs, giants, grotesques, argumentative animals—the whole imaginative menagerie of creatures common to the fairy tale are reinvented in this international gathering of 80 contemporary fables.
Rosario Ferre, Three Tales from Puerto Rico
James Purdy, Kitty Blue
Lydia Davis, Five Dark Tales
Can Xue, Two Stories
John Ash, Zho-jan
Grozdana Olujic, The Bewitched Burr and Other
Tales
Diana Hartog, A Fish Story
Bradford Morrow, The Channah Tales
Jacques Roubaud, Three Tales from the Tale Known
as the Princess Hoppy or the Labrador Tale
Gary Indiana, The Black Angel
Diane Ackerman, Complaint on Her Cat
David Rattray, How I Became One of the Invisible
Three Folktales from India (collected and translated
from the Tamil and the Malyalam by A. K. Ramanujan)
Kurt Schwitters, Four Bear Songs
Forrest Gander, Kuzma and the Worm
Joanna Scott, Convicta et Combusta
Scott Bradfield, The Parakeet and the Cat
Fanny Howe, The Reduction of the Nativity
Liudmila Petrushevskaya, The Rose and other Fairy
Tales
James Laughlin, Eight Parables and Poems
Lynne Tillman, Madame Realism: A Fairy Tale
Sally Pont, Ich Liebe Dich and Other Lies Too
Hideous to Utter
Jerome Rothenberg, The Lorca Variations:
“Lunar Grapefruits”
Dennis Tedlock, Three Maidens at the Bath
O. V. de L. Milosz, Two Lithuanian Fairy Tales
Wendy Walker, The Children of Montjoie
Mary Egan, Two Tales
Paola Capriola, The Woman of Stone
Patrick McGrath, O’Malley and Schwartz
William T. Vollmann, The Butterfly Girl
Paul West, Rupert Killamarsh’s Other Life
Russell Edson, The Pig Story
Yannick Murphy, Snowbird and Other Tales
Robert Antoni, My Grandmother’s Story of the Buried Treasure and How She Defeated the King of
Chacachacari and the Entire American Army with Her
Venus Fly-Traps
Theodore Enslin, Mete
Armand Schwerner, The
Four Folktales from Nigeria collected and
translated from the Igbo by Romanus Egudu
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Daughter
Charles Wartts, Jr., Papa Will
Patricia Eakins, R’ha-l’a R’a-H’oum