New Directions 54

New Directions 54

Fiction

John Allman: THE TOWER Bei Dao: SIX POEMS Maclin Bocock: THE BAKER’S DAUGHTER Edwin Brock: FIVE POEMS Yves Broussard: INCISIONS ON BARK Andrei Codrescu: OUTINGS Lydia Davis: FIVE STORIES Clayton Eshleman: PAN’S SIGNAL TOWER Judy Gahagan: DID GUSTAV MAHLER SKI? Allen Grossman: SPRING SONG OF THE BEHEMOTH Mary Karr: AN INTERVIEW WITH CRAIG RAINE James Laughlin: SIX POEMS Taban Lo Liyong: CALENDAR OF WISDOMS Jill Marion Maney: FIVE POEMS Bradford Morrow: A BESTIARY Michael Moynihan: THE PRICE OF BICYCLES Tony Quagliano: WHAT TO DO WITH SCENERY Craig Raine: TWO POEMS Gonzalo Rojas: EIGHT POEMS Henry H. Roth: OMENS Richard Sieburth: ELEGY FOR A SPONGE Anthony Tripi: THE DEATH OF ANATOLY MARCHENKO Niccolo Tucci: STRONG MAN Marjorie Welish: CROSSING DISAPPEARING BEHIND THEM