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The Paris Review No. 113, Winter II 1989

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“Talk is cheap and proves nothing. Poetry is dear and difficult to come by. But it poles us across the river and puts a music in our ears”: Charles Wright on the Art of Poetry.

Malcolm Cowley: From The Editor’s Desk.

Fiction by John Banville, Nadine Gordimer, and Josip Novakovich. Poems by Hayden Carruth, Jorie Graham, and Barbara Jordan.

Table of Contents

Fiction

John Banville, from The Book of Evidence

Nadine Gordimer, Across the Veld

Josip Novakovich, Rust

Interview

Max Frisch, The Art of Fiction No. 113  Full Text

Manuel Puig, The Art of Fiction No. 114  Full Text

Charles Wright, The Art of Poetry No. 41  Full Text

Poetry

Bruce Bawer, Sixty-fifth Street Poems

S. Ben-Tov, Clouds Over Jerusalem, in Winter

Laurence Breiner, Sonettina: At the Murano Glassworks

Hayden Carruth, Clearing

Marc Cohen, Blue Lonely Dreams ,Violets in Mapland

Gabrielle Glancy, The Way the World Appears

Jorie Graham, The Phase After History

Gerrit Henry, The Watchers

Edward Hirsch, Art Pepper

Martha Hollander, When We Ride Off

Andrew Hudgins, Two Poems

Jerzy Jarniewicz, Two Poems

Barbara Jordan, A Skull Enwalled Garden

Paul Lake, The Century Killer

Joseph Lease, Crystal Rock

William Logan, Florida Pest Control

Feature

Malcolm Cowley, From The Editor's Desk

Art

Richard Prince, Joke Paintings