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