Five Points, Vol. 1 No. 1
Fall 1996From 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
- Stray Paragraphs in February
- Poem on My Sixtieth Birthday, Six Months Late
- 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