Five Points, Vol. 12 No. 1

Spring 2008

From Philip Levine, “Shakespeare was never a king or a Roman, yet he can write about them.”

Table of Contents

POETRY

  • Philip Levine
    • The Story
  • Gerald Stern
    • Death by Wind
    • My Dear 
    • Rose in Your Teeth 
  • Margaret Gibson
    • Face to Face 
    • The Choice 
    • In the Poet’s House 
  • Linda Pastan
    • On Seeing An Old Photograph
    • Three Skulls on an Oriental Rug: Cezanne, Oil on Canvas
  • John Kinsella
    • Canto of the Patriots (Inferno) 
    • Re-echoing Canto of the Snake Being Run Over (Inferno) 
  • Moya Cannon
    • Hands
  • Richard Tillinghast
    • Cabbage
    • Hotel Room
  • Lauren Watel
    • Coasting
    • The Last Button
  • Sarah Gorham
    • Salon
  • Barbara Hamby
    • Ode on My 45s, Insomnia, and My Poststructuralist Superego  
  • David Kirby
  • Big Man’s Got the Blues
  • Mark Doty

FICTION

  • Lauren Groff / Amish in a Time of War
  • Daniel Wallace / The End
  • Paul Lisicky / The Boy and His Mother Are Stuck!
  • Anna Selver-Kassell / The Story of the Father
  • Lindsay Stuart Hill / Water Running on the Moon

ESSAYS

INTERVIEW

  • Jeff Rumiano / An Interview with Philip Levine

PORTFOLIO

  • Britta Jaschinski / Dark
  • Randy Malamud / Commentary