Lucky indeed is the young writer who has a background like Josip Novaikovich. No shortage of something to write about. Listen. He grew up in Yugoslavia, the son of a clog-maker in a mountain town. Matters got complicated, seeing that his family was of a small group of Baptists in a Communist country that was…
Mrs. Chow heard the widow. She tried reading faster but kept stumbling over the same lines. She thought perhaps she was misreading them: "There comes, then, finally, the prospect of atomic war. If the war is ever to be carried to China, common sense tells us only atomic weapons could promise maximum loss with minimum…
Emma's tongue woke him, wending a slow trail downward from his chest and making his hair stand on end. "Mmmm, salty," she said, smacking her lips as his eyes fluttered open, and then the trail of moistness, cool against the morning air, continued down, while Flaubert, the cat, observed with oriental and detached curiosity, and…
MASTHEAD Directors DeWitt Henry Peter O'Malley Coordinating Editor for This Issue Maxine Kumin Managing Editor Jennifer Rose Office Manager Don Lee Thanks this issue to: Roland Kelts, Mary Ellen Beveridge, Sharon Bogue, Kathleen Bowden, Catherine Creegan, Kirsten Czupryna, Emilia Dubicki, Beth Elion, Carol Feingold, Anne Friedman, Kahtryn Herold, Doina Iliescu, Jean Kane, Naomi Kent, Tom…
Craig Raine's new kind of poetry has yet to reach a substantial audience in the United States. But, if the reviews can be believed, Raine's reputation in Britain exceeds that of any contemporary poet on this side of the Atlantic. Raine's four books- The Onion, Memory, A Martian Sends a Post Card Home, Rich, and…
MASTHEAD Directors DeWitt Henry Peter O'Malley Coordinating Editor for This Issue Bill Knott Prose Editor Mary Karr Managing Editor Jennifer Rose Office Manager Don Lee Thanks this issue to: Louisa Solano, Becky Shipp, Claudia Keelan, Bethanne T. Elion, and Kathleen Bowden. CONTRIBUTORS Ai's latest book, Sin, was published in 1986 by Houghton Mifflin. This fall,…
MASTHEAD Directors DeWitt Henry Peter O'Malley Coordinating Editor for This Issue DeWitt Henry Associate Fiction Editor Don Lee Managing Editor Jennifer Rose Office Manager Jessica Dineen Thanks this issue to: Susan Whitmore, Catherine Creegan, Sharon Bogue, Bethanne T. Elion, Robert Arnay, Sydney Fadner, Sandi Tyler, Melanie Rae Thon, Mariette Lippo, Eileen Pollack, Carol Magun Feingold,…
Nights in the barn, the clean astringence of urine steaming into the tendrils of a dungfire, the cattle sleeping their own way, and me mine, despite the puppies tied to the housepost, their lean mother snapping, the only window stuffed with straw. To keep out snakes? No. Reic shifts at watch. To block the cuckold's…
Thirty-seven years after publication of the first Selected Poems of William Carlos Williams, New Directions has given us a new one. In 1949 Williams himself did the selecting, and Randall Jarrell was called upon to provide an introduction. Charles Tomlinson, an Englishman who did not "seriously begin to read Williams until 1956-his Desert Music and…
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