Fables, Yarns, Fairy Tales
Edited by Bradford Morrow

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
Norman Manea, Tale of the Enchanted Pig
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