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The Paris Review No. 139, Summer 1996

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Camilo Jose Cela on the Art of Fiction. A. R. Ammons on the Art of Poetry.

The Tangier Diaries of John Hopkins.

James Lord recalls the reunion of Picasso and Cocteau in the south of France.

Stories by Guy Davenport, Jonathan Franze, and Ben Sonnenberg. Poems by A. R. Ammons, Carolyn Kizer, and James Laughlin.

Table of Contents

Fiction

Carolyn Cooke, Bob Darling

Guy Davenport, Dinner at the Bank of England

Jonathan Franzen, Chez Lambert

Ben Sonnenberg, Two Stories

Interview

A. R. Ammons, The Art of Poetry No. 73  Full Text

William F. Buckley Jr., The Art of Fiction No. 146  Full Text

Camilo José Cela, The Art of Fiction No. 145  Full Text

Poetry

A. R. Ammons, Strip

Claes Andersson, Two Poems

Ansie Baird, Three Poems

Katherine Beasley, The Plea Bargain

George Bradley, Opus

Fred Dings, Dido

Mark Doty, Visitation

Serena J. Fox, Two Poems

Joel Friederich, Two Poems

Philip Hodgins, Two Poems

Rob House, Ballad of an Amateur

Paul Kane, Three Poems

Carolyn Kizer, Anniversaries: Claremont Avenue, from 1945

James Laughlin, Two Poems

David Lehman, Three Poems

Robin Magowan, Looking for Binoculars

Gary Mitchner, Three Poems

Jacqueline Osherow, Two Poems

Eric Pankey, A Basket of Apricots

Alan Shapiro, Two Poems

Phillip Sterling, Two Poems

John Voiklis, The Princeling's Apology

Liam Weitz, Cats

David Yezzi, Two Poems

Feature

John Hopkins, The Tangier Diaries 1962–1979

James Lord, A Reunion: Cocteau and Picasso

Art

Leona Christie, Contents Illustration

Philip Smith, Four Drawings