Five Points, Vol. 13 No. 1

Spring 2009

From Thomas Mallon, “For some people who become actual writers, diary writing is like small-town vaudeville. It’s a place you can learn, a place you can be bad; it’s a place where you can fail without any consequence.”

Table of Contents

Poetry

  • Mark Jarman
  • Susan Wood
    • A Short History of Women in the 19th Century
    • The Old Testament
  • Jason Shinder
    • Untitled
    • First Time
    • Smoke
    • Killing Frost
  • Edward Hirsch
    • Forebodings
    • Last Saturday
    • Dark Tour
  • Linda Zisquit
    • Ship
  • Barbara Ras
    • Voices from the Corners of the Sky
  • Linda Pastan
    • March
  • Edip Cansever
    • Translations from the Turkish by Richard Tillinghast & Julia Clare Tillinghast-Akalin
  • Coleman Barks
    • Darling
  • Philip Schultz
    • Aging Egoists
    • The Opening
  • Dave Smith
    • Ode to Waffle House
  • Laurence Lieberman
    • Return of the River
  • Mike Carson
    • County Clare

Fiction

  • Elizabeth Spencer / Return Trip
  • Madison Smartt Bell / April 1863
  • Karen Brown / Swimming
  • Thomas Mallon / Work-in-Progress
  • Wolfe Martin / Home
  • Matthew Ducker / The Wilderness

Essays

  • Tony Hoagland / Introduction to Four Poems by Jason Shinder
  • Philip Levine / A History of My Befuddlement
  • David Kirby / Little Richard, Where Are You?

Interview

  • André Bernard / An Interview with Thomas Mallon

Portfolio

  • Lili Almog / Perfect Intimacy