Five Points, Vol. 3 No. 2
Winter 1999From Philip Levine: “I loved the way Neruda could let almost anything fly into a poem. If you put your hand over the poem you have no idea what’s going to appear in the next line, but somehow he can make it belong.”
Table of Contents
Poetry
- Billy Collins
- Pavilion
- To My Reader Again
- Death Again
- Philip Levine
- Pasadena Elegy
- Sundays with Lungo
- Little Houses, Detroit, 1936
- Novella
- Dave Smith
- Allegheny Happiness
- Red Dress at the Goodwill Store
- Naomi Shihab Nye
- Job
- I Was Thinking of Poems
- Shade
- Christine Stewart
- Pilgrimage
- Eamon Grennan
- Truth
- Manna
- Josie Raney
- Sluts
- Ruth Fainlight
- Stuart Dybek
- Thunk
- Nap
- Charlie Smith
- Greeks
- One-Eyed Man
- Cathy Song
- A Poet in the House
- Louis Simpson
- A Walk in Romania
- Edward Hirsch
- The Magic Mirror
Fiction
- Cary Holladay / The Lost Pony
- Richard Bausch / Riches
- Travis Holland / Rust Belt
- Laurel McKee Ranger / Deadly Shift
- Peter Lasalle / Jumping Ship
Essay
- Frederick Busch / My Father’s War
Interview
- Philip Levine / An Interview by Ernest Suarez
Art
- John McWilliams / Venice