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The Paris Review No. 127, Summer 1993

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Christopher Logue on Homer, the Left Bank, and the Art of Poetry.

A Humorist at Work: An interview with Fran Leibowitz.

Stories by Donald Antrim, Jim Carroll, Melissa Pritchard, and Jim Shepard. Poems by Rafael Campo, Christopher Merrill, and May Swenson.

Table of Contents

Fiction

Donald Antrim, Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World  Full Text

Jim Carroll, Curtis's Charm

Ralph Lombreglia, Piltdown Man, Later Proved to Be a Hoax

Melissa Pritchard, The Good and Faithful Widow

Jim Shepard, Batting Against Castro

Interview

Christopher Logue, The Art of Poetry No. 66  Full Text

James Salter, The Art of Fiction No. 133  Full Text

Poetry

A. R. Ammons, Three Poems

David Bergman, Two Poems

Judith Berke, Two Poems

Rafael Campo, Two Poems

Nicholas Christopher, 5°

Nancy Eimers, Two Poems

Irving Feldman, Variations on a Theme by May Swenson

Donald Finkel, Waiting for a Heart

Robert Hahn, Four Poems

Paul Kane, Three Poems

Cynthia Kraman, Four Poems

David Lehman, Five Poems

Sandra McPherson, Three Poems

Christopher Merrill, Two Poems

Lynn Powell, Two Poems

Burton Raffel, Six Poems

Lloyd Schwartz, Pornography

Shawn Sturgeon, Two Poems

May Swenson, Daffodildo

Feature

Fran Lebowitz, A Humorist at Work  Full Text

Erwin Pfrang, Circe Drawings

Art

Peter Campus, Rupture

Roberto Juarez, Studies for Days of the Year

Gary Simmons, Blackboard Series