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Five Points, Vol. 1 No. 1

Fall 1996

From Louis Simpson: “When you’re writing, you really don’t know what you’re doing. You don’t know how it’s going to come out. If you think you know, you may write a bad poem.”

Table of Contents

Poetry

  • Yosano Akiko
    • Translations from the Japanese by Sam Hamill & Keiko Matsui Gibson
  • Daniel Halpern
  • Charles Wright
  • Stephen Dunn
    • This Far Out in the Country
  • Andrew Hudgins
    • Edge
    • Poem
  • Katherine Soniat
    • Stick
  • Louis Simpson
    • The Fence
    • The Floor Lamp
    • Homeless Men
  • Charles Smith
    • The Sprinters
    • Life on Earth
  • Edward Hirsch
    • At Sixteen
  • Marvin Bell
    • The Book of the Dead Man (#79)
  • Peter Davison
    • Phantom Pain
  • Dave Smith
    • The Holy Mother of Connecticut Avenue

Fiction

  • Frederick Busch / Are We Pleasing You Tonight?
  • Tess Gallagher / A Glimpse of the Buddha
  • Fred Chappell / The Shooting Woman
  • Carol Lee Lorenzo / Drowning

Creative Nonfiction

  • John Rosenthal / Mulberry Street: The Story of a Photograph
  • Rick Bass / The Perfect Day

Interview

  • Ronald Moran / An Interview with Louis Simpson