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Five Points, Vol. 4 No. 1

Fall 2000

From 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
  • 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

Interview

  • Yusef Komunyakaa / An Interview by Ernest Suarez
  • Tim O’Brien / An Interview by Anthony Tambakis

Art

  • John Rosenthal / New York Photographs