Five Points, Vol. 17 No. 2

Spring 2016

From Sindiwe Magona: "I do believe that writing is always about self. Because even when you propose to write something that is not self, you are still tapping into who you are."

Table of Contents

POETRY

  • Philip Levine
    • Postcards
    • Sicilian Voices
  • Billy Collins
    • The Night of the Fallen Limb
  • Kim Addonizio
    • from The Sonnets
    • Lost in Translation
    • Love Poem (Assembled from Fragments)
  • Mark Jarman
    • Iona The Way You Went
  • Berwyn Moore
    • A Reprimand of Crows
    • The Space Between 4:00 a.m.
    • Dirty Talk: A Marriage Poem
  • Rodney Jones Cold Springs Apostrophe
    • The Breaker
    • The Age of Accountability
  • Wyn Cooper
    • Lifeboat
  • Dominika Wrozynski
  • Anne Marie Macari
    • Florida Atlantic
  • Rick Bursky
    • Perfecting the Dog Paddle
  • Bruce McEver
    • November Sunset: Maid Stone Island
  • Carl Dennis
    • At the Graveyard
  • John Kinsella
    • Charolais
  • Cynthia Huntington
    • When I Had Died

FICTION

  • Jennifer Haigh
  • Sindiwe Magona
    • Chasing the Tails of My Father’s Cattle
  • Ron Carlson
    • Dark Desert Highway

ESSAYS

  • Andre Dubus III
  • Beth Ann Fennelly
    • A Little Recognition Would Be Nice
    • 1994
    • What I Think When Someone Uses “Pussy” as a Synonym for “Weak”
    • Why I’m So Well Read
    • Another Reason I Love My Mother
    • Bad Break

INTERVIEW

  • Renée Schatteman
    • An Interview with Sindiwe Magona

PORTFOLIO

  • Cara Weston
    • Eight Photographs

SPECIAL FEATURE: HOT ROCKS #6

  • Mike Mattison & Ernest Suarez
    • Introduction
  • Mike Mattison
    • An Interview with Ashley Kahn
  • Thomas Hill Schaub
    • Is It Him? Playing Bridge with Thomas Pynchon
  • Billy Cioffi
    • (Slight Return)
  • George Kalogeris
    • Pulp Fiction
    • Aubade
  • T. R. Hummer
    • Cheap Glass Vase at the Jazz Singer’s Grave
    • What Music Is