Fifty Contemporary Writers
Spring 2008
Edited by Bradford Morrow
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Edwidge Danticat, The Port-au-Prince Marriage Special
Ben Marcus, On Not Growing Up
Joyce Carol Oates, The Beating
Peter Cole, Why Does the World Out There Seem
Charles McLeod, Edge Boys
Cole Swensen, Two Poems
Sandra Cisneros, Natural Daughter
Richard Powers, Modulation
Shelley Jackson, King Cow
Charles Bernstein, Three Poems
Paul La Farge, Contact
Lyn Hejinian, A Bit of Nocturnal History
Stephen O’Connor, Man in the Moon
Julia Elliott, The Raven
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Animal Communication
Reginald Shepherd, Three Poems
Rick Moody, The Problem of Impairment
Edie Meidav, Beef
Rae Armantrout, Three Poems
Brian Booker, Gumbo Limbo
Martine Bellen, Two Poems Inspired by the Dreams of Emily Dickinson
Frederic Tuten, Self-Portrait with Sicily
Can Xue, Moonlight Dance
Christopher Sorrentino, The Photographer Upstairs
Joan Retallack, Archimedes’ New Light
Carole Maso, From Mother and Child
William H. Gass, The Man Who Spoke With His Hands
Bradford Morrow, From The Prague Sonatas
Rikki Ducornet, Because His Youth or The Parrot’s Spanish
Andrew Mossin, Trestle
Eduardo Galeano, Women
James Morrow, From The Philosopher’s Apprentice
Diane Williams, A Helpful Study, A Devious Storm, The Weird Directions …
Nam Le, The Boat
Donald Revell, The Rabbits
Joanna Scott, Sally Werner
Robert Kelly, From Fire Exit
Matthew Hamity, Refugees
Thalia Field, Hospice
Robert Antoni, The Historic Voyage of the Rosalind
Mary Caponegro, The Translator
Jonathan Carroll, Nothing to Declare
Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Draft 82: Hinge
Brian Evenson, Angel of Death
Valerie Martin, Secrets and Lies
Peter Orner, Aquarium of the Dead: Chicago Stories
Robert Coover, Red-Hot Ruby
John Ashbery, Some Silly Thing
Ann Lauterbach, Elegy: Or to Begin Again