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The Paris Review No. 107, Summer 1988

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An Art of Fiction interview with Jim Harrison.

“I worked for Cadillac, in their transmission factory, and for Chevrolet. You could recite poems aloud in there. The noise was so stupendous”: Phillip Levine on the Art of Poetry.

Stories by Rick Bass, John Hersey, and Bobbie Ann Mason. Poems by Jonathan Galassi, Brenda Hillman, and Wole Soyinka.

Table of Contents

Fiction

Rick Bass, Wild Horses

Robert Cohen, A Flight of Sparks

John Hersey, Requiescat

Bobbie Ann Mason, Sorghum

Interview

Jim Harrison, The Art of Fiction No. 104  Full Text

Philip Levine, The Art of Poetry No. 39  Full Text

Poetry

Agha Shahid Ali, Snow on the Desert

Nathalie Anderson, Four Poems

John Ash, Four Poems

S. Ben-Tov, Pauses in Indian Flute Music

Robert Bensen, Caprice

Mary Campbell, Two Poems

Michael Covino, In The Poor Part of Town

Jonathan Galassi, The Lake

Marilyn Hacker, Dear Jool, I Miss You in St. Saturnin

Miguel Hernandez, Lullaby of the Onion

Brenda Hillman, Meridian Plinth

Andrew Hudgins, Mostly My Nightmares Are Dull

Karl Kirchwey, House Lights Down

David Mamet, Untitled

Tom Sleigh, Two Poems

Charlie Smith, Two Poems

Wole Soyinka, Your Logic Frightens Me Mandela

Bruce Weigl, Elegy

Art

Michael Byron, Monotypes