Five Points, Vol. 13 No. 1
Spring 2009From 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
- Goleta Winter Solstice
- Article of Faith
- Not Death But Sleep
- Heaven
- 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