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Five Points, Vol. 15 No 1&2

Spring 2013

From James Dickey, “I meant to write about the universal need for contact that runs through all sentient beings and will be served, even if it creates monsters. It’s too strong for everything.”

Table of Contents

POETRY

  • SHARON OLDS
  •  THOMAS LUX
    • For My Sister
    • Frank Stafford at 63
    • A Man’s Little Heart’s Short Fever Fit
  • Philip Schultz
    • Goodbye to Buckets
    • The Names
  • Anya Silver
  • Taije Silverman & Marina Della Putta Johnston
    • Translations from the Italian: Giovanni Pascoli
  • Jane Hirshfield
    • A Cottage Cheese Sandwich
    • Old Love
    • A Well Runs Out of  Thirst
    • Ordinary Rain. Every Leaf Is Wet
    • In Praise of Being Peripheral
  •  Barbara Hamby
    • On the Street of Divine Love
    • I’m Eating Walt Whitman Soup
  • Billy Collins
    • American Airlines
    • Upstate
    • Death Valley
  • Tracey Knapp
    • Stealing
    • To the New Moon
  •  Gregory Fraser
    • At the Degas Exhibit
  • Edward Hirsch
    • Fencer
    • Red Rambler
  • David Kirby
    • A House Not Made by Hands
    • The Juniper Tree
  • James May
    • The Sap Gone Out
  • Elizabeth Spires
    • After You Died
    • The Amiable Child
  • Moya Cannon
    • The Tube-Case Makers
  • Chelsea Rathburn
    • The Rescue
  • Laurence Lieberman
    • Unguent
    • Prankster Spirits of the Salt Ponds
  • Kevin Cantwell
    • This Golden Thread
    • Syllables on the Problem of Cremation at East Point, Florida
    • Instructions to the Coast   

Fiction

  • Alice Hoffman / How to Eat a Pie
  • Michael Parker / Typing Pool
  • Elizabeth Spencer / Thirty Years from Somewhere
  • Brock Clarke / The Happiest People in the World
  • Lauren Groff / At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners
  • Tom Perrotta / Grade My Teacher
  • Madison Smartt Bell / Behind the Moon
  • Kim Addonizio / Beautiful Lady of the Snow
  • Pamela Painter / Road Trip
  • Lauren Watel / Cul-de-Sac
  • Alix Ohlin / Nights Back Then
  • Celia Dovell Bell / Without
  • Jennifer Haigh / What Remains

Essays

  • Edward Hirsch / Thirty Years from Somewhere
  • Melanie Rae Thon / Galaxies Beyond Violet
  • Edward Hower / Gratitude
  • Dave Smith / Why Do You Do Me the Way You Do: Beginnings and Endings in Lyric Poems

Interview

  • Daren Wang / An Interview with James Dickey

Special Feature

  • Reflections on James Dickey
  • Christopher Dickey
  • Ward Briggs
  • Ernest Suarez

Portfolio

  • Deborah Luster / Bring It on Down

 Endpapers

  • Michael Schall / High Security River Valley
  • Digging the Largest Hole on Earth