Five Points, Vol. 4 No. 1
Fall 2000From Ha Jin, “I only write about failure. I never write about success. I never write about important people. I never write about the brighter side.”
Table of Contents
Poetry
- Donald Hall
- Tidying
 
 - Yusef Komunyakaa
- May
 - from Autobiography of My Alter Ego
 - Dear Mister Decoy
 
 - Kate Daniels
- Shampoo Girl
 - Crowns
 
 - Jane Lin
- The Secret Father
 
 - Michael McFee
- & Vicinity
 
 - Richard Bausch
- Waking
 - Two Handwritten Pages
 
 - Peter Davison
- Villa Dei Pini
 - The Rituals
 
 - Hsieh Ling-Yun
- Four Poems Translated from the Chinese by Sam Hamill
 
 - Charles Simic
- The Golden Age of Opera
 - Cherry Blossom Time
 
 - Turner Cassity
- If You Sell It, They Will Come
 
 - J.D. McClatchy
- Aden
 
 
Fiction
- Alyson Hagy / Semper Paratus
 - Quan Zhang / The Jaundice Ward
 - Alix Ohlin / The King of Kohlrabi
 - Alice Elliot Dark / Maniacs
 
Essays
- Steven Harvey / Bluing
 - Rick Bass / Eastern Washington
 
Interview
- Yusef Komunyakaa / An Interview by Ernest Suarez
 - Tim O’Brien / An Interview by Anthony Tambakis
 
Art
- John Rosenthal / New York Photographs
 
