Other Worlds
Guest-edited by Peter Cole

With works ranging from lyric to polemic to elegy to exegesis to spoof, this issue is proof of Milton's notion that the earth was an Other World in the mind of its maker.

Peter Reading, From Perduta Gente
John Ashbery, It Must Be Sophisticated
Fanny Howe, On Saving History
James Purdy, From Out With the Stars
Eliot Weinberger, The River
Freidrich Holderlin, Columbus
Elaine Equi, Two Poems
Ewa Kuryluk, Conrad and Lowry in Mexico
David Antin, Determination, Suspension,
      Diversion, Digression, Destruction
Aleksei Parshchikov, Money
John Weiners, From 707 Scott Street
Adam Thorpe, Friends: 1689
Carl Rakosi, Three Poems
Dennis Silk, James' Games
Melissa Townsend, Three Poems
Thom Gunn, Herculaneaum
Pat Califia, Fix Me Up
Novalis, From Posthumous Fragments of
      1798 (translated from the German by
      Alexander Gelley)
John Adams, An Interview with Aaron Jay
      Kernis
Martin Earl, Two Poems
Donald Baechler, Eight Collages
Barbara Guest, The Glass Mountain
Henry Green, Impenetrability
John Barth, The Novel in the Next Century
Forrest Gander, The Faculty for Hearing
      the Silence of Jesus
Christopher Middleton, The Bugbear of
      Experimentalism
Jim Powell, Beauty and the Cripple
Marjorie Welish, Grace's Tree, I
Iain Sinclair, From Horse Spittle
Tom Clark, Three Poems
Phillip Lopate, Two Sketches
Charles Stein, They Take the Car Away
Cid Corman, Two Poems
Barbara Einzig, The Sight of the Lion That
      Appeared to Me and Seemed to be
      Coming at Me
James Laughlin, Two Poems
Eli Gottlieb, Fad's Eye
Adonis, Poetry and Apoetical Culture
David Shapiro, Dido to Aeneas
Arthur A. Cohen, Jepthah's Vow and
      Marginality
William Corbett, Last Words

In Memoriam, John Cage (1912-1992)