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Five Points, Vol. 5 No. 1

Fall 2000

From Ha Jin, “I only write about failure. I never write about success. I never write about important people. I never write about the brighter side.”

Table of Contents

Poetry

  • Robert Bly
    • Nikos and His Donkey
  • Kim Addonizio
  • Mark Jarman
    • Epistle
    • Epistle
    • Over the River and through the Woods
  • Billy Collins
    • Ice Fishing
  • Alice Fulton
    • Duty Free Spirits
  • James Rioux
  • Robert Wrigley
    • Mother Stone
  • David Kirby
    • Raised by Gorillas
    • Public Idiot
  • David Baker
    • Ars Commedia
    • Some Shames
    • Separations
  • David Lehman
    • October 16
    • November 6
    • November 30

Fiction

  • Madison Smartt Bell / The Prisoner in Fort de Joux
  • Cary Holladay / The Broken Lake
  • David Michael Kaplan / The El
  • Ron Carlson / At Copper View

Essays

  • Paul Steinberg / The Life and Death of Phillipe
  • John Rosenthal / Getting Lost

Interview

  • Ha Jin / An Interview by Liza Nelson

Portfolio

  • Mark Steinmetz / Knoxville