Five Points, Vol. 5 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
- Robert Bly
- Nikos and His Donkey
 
 - Kim Addonizio
- Kisses
 - In Dreams
 
 - Mark Jarman
- Epistle
 - Epistle
 - Over the River and through the Woods
 
 - Billy Collins
- Ice Fishing
 
 - Alice Fulton
- Duty Free Spirits
 
 - James Rioux
 - Robert Wrigley
- Mother Stone
 
 - David Kirby
- Raised by Gorillas
 - Public Idiot
 
 - David Baker
- Ars Commedia
 - Some Shames
 - Separations
 
 - David Lehman
- October 16
 - November 6
 - November 30
 
 
Fiction
- Madison Smartt Bell / The Prisoner in Fort de Joux
 - Cary Holladay / The Broken Lake
 - David Michael Kaplan / The El
 - Ron Carlson / At Copper View
 
Essays
- Paul Steinberg / The Life and Death of Phillipe
 - John Rosenthal / Getting Lost
 
Interview
- Ha Jin / An Interview by Liza Nelson
 
Portfolio
- Mark Steinmetz / Knoxville
 
