Five Points, Vol. 5 No. 3
Summer 2001From David St. John, “I think that one of the great dilemmas of contemporary poetry is that there’s a kind of reliance on reportage. Whether it’s domestic or political, there’s a sense that the illusion of truth, the illusion of a particular journalistic truth necessarily occasions great consequence, and that’s just not so.”
Table of Contents
POETRY
- David Baker
- Mr. Whitman’s Book
- No One Said
- White Heron Pond
- T.R. Hummer
- Little Epic of Oblivion
- Sunrise Raga with Cat Motif and Continental Drift
- Elizabeth Seydel Morgan
- The Birthday
- Mary Oliver
- Tree Sparrows
- Walking to Oak-Head Pond, and Thinking of the Ponds I Will Visit in the Next Days and Weeks
- David St. John
- Aperture
- Hope
- Duty & Lust
- Love
- Kim Addonizio
- Body and Soul
- Ex-boyfriends
- The Way of the World
- Linda Pastan
- Grace
- Fibula
- Potsy
- Thomas Lux
- Breakbone Fever
FICTION
- Sheila Kohler / Youth
- Stephen Gibson / Dooley’s Grill and Tavern
- Doug Dorst / Black Roses
- Elizabeth Stuckey-French / Where the Bad Guys Are
ESSAY
- Janet Burroway / I Didn’t Know Sylvia Plath
INTERVIEW
- David St. John / An Interview with Tod Marshall
REDISCOVERIES
- R.W.B. Lewis / Introduction
- Robert Penn Warren / Role of the Writer in Society
PORTFOLIO
- T.W. Meyer / Cultural Detritus