Five Points, Vol. 8 No. 2
Spring 2004From Hayden Carruth, “I preferred independence, and I emphasized that in my poetry, in my prose too, I think, and in my life.”
Table of Contents
Poetry
- Philip Levine
- On a Photograph of Simon Karaday
- Linda Pastan
- March Snow
- Billy Collins
- Why I Could Never Be a Buddhist
- The Revenant
- Charlie Smith
- I Speak to Fewer People
- Ancient Ladies
- The State Poet
- Hayden Carruth
- Small Ode
- Fanfare for the Common Man, No. 2
- On Being Marginalized
- Mark Jarman
- Vistors
- John Stone
- Processional: A Follow Up
- Andrea Hollander Budy
- For Weeks After the Funeral
- Ann Townsend
- Early Days
- T.R. Hummer
- Lives of the Angels
- Barbara Hamby
- Ode to the Bride of Frankenstein
- Enid Shomer
- Driving through the Animal
- Lucyna Prostko
Fiction
- Madison Smartt Bell / Parallel Lines
- Nancy Reisman / The Cold Blue of Delaware Park
- Alice Hoffman / The Wedding and Snow and Ice
- Emily Harrison Foster / Before and After That Summer
- Brad Vice / Tuscaloosa Knights
Essay
- Shannon Ravenel /Wild with Discovery
Interview
- Steven Huff / An Interview with Hayden Carruth
Art
- Fernando La Rosa / Still, Life