Five Points, Vol. 15 No. 3

Fall 2013

From Lydia Davis, “I suppose obsession is something many or most of us are prone to at least from time to time.”

Table of Contents

Poetry

  • Billy Collins
    • Species
    • Fire
    • Poetry
  • Maurice Manning
  • Anya Silver
  • John Kinsella
    • Phenomenological Spheres at Jam Tree Gully  
    • Dry Lightning at Night—apprehension
    • Roots
  • Shawn Delgado
    • Honey
  • Laurence Lieberman
    • Lives Thump into Your Hands
  • Denise Duhamel
    • Dogs  
    • After the Divorce 
  • Linda Pastan
    • At Maho Bay
  • Kathleen Kraft
    • Sometimes Late in the Evening

 Fiction

  • Lydia Davis
    • The Magic of the Train
    • Her Birthday  
    • Letter to the U.S. Postal Service Concerning a Poster 
    • How Sad?  
    • A Note from the Paper Boy 
  • A.L. Snijders
    • Ukiyo-e  
    • Baldur 
    • Story 
    • Flapsour 
  • Jane Delury / Stitch  
  • Pamela Painter / Prodigal Sister
  • Isabelle Deconinck / Road Trip With a Dead Therapist
  • Eric Sasson/ Please

Essays

  • Philip Levine /My Lost Poets
  • John Skoyles/ A Stay at  Yaddo
  • Joshua Harmon / The Annotated Mixtape, #33
  • Jessica Handler/ Transformed by Loss

Interview

  • Sarah Winterfield / An Interview with Lydia Davis

Portfolio

  • Rosella Mamoli Zorzi / Hemingway in Venice

Special Feature: Hot Rocks

  • Mike Mattison & Ernest Suarez / “You Say You Want a Revolution”: the Blues, Poetry and Rock
  • Kim Addonizio
    • Radio Blues
    • The Women
  • Charles Jones
    • Son House
    • Big Mama Thornton
  • Michael Kimmage / “Goin’ to Dallas”: The Art of Lightnin’ Hopkins
  • T.R. Hummer & Billy Cioffi / Call and Response: How Humans Live, Love, Create, Get Ten Dollars for a Cup of Coffee, and by Extension How We Wrote Highminded