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The Paris Review No. 163, Fall 2002

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Philosophy, academia, Diogenes, collage, utopia, Mike Leigh, and the world “full of rhymes”: An interview with Guy Davenport.

“Yr letters are life preservers”: The correspondence of Ernest Hemingway and Ezra Pound.

Stories by Benjamin Anastas, John Haskell, and Nani Power. Poems by John Ashbery and Dan Chiasson.

Table of Contents

Fiction

Benjamin Anastas, Falstaff, 193-

John Haskell, Capucine

Paul Maliszewski, After the Mailman  Full Text

Nani Power, The Milqueiest Piece of Toast

José Saramago, The Cave

Interview

Guy Davenport, The Art of Fiction No. 174  Full Text

J. D. McClatchy, The Art of Poetry No. 84  Full Text

Poetry

John Ashbery, Obsidian House  Full Text

Molly Bendall, Two Poems

Joel Brouwer, Two Poems

Dan Chiasson, Dream of the End of Reading

Katharine Coles, Three Poems

Patricia Corbus, Retro in Orange

Averill Curdy, Two Poems

Susan Davis, The Endless Story

B. H. Fairchild, Two Poems

Carol Vanderveer Hamilton, Delirium

Karl Kirchwey, Two Poems

Eric LeMay, The Loneliness of God

James Longenbach, Close Up

Randall Mann, Four Poems

Thomas Pfau, Three Poems

John Poch, The Starlet

Kenneth Rosen, The Accursed

Michael J. Rosen, Two Poems

Robin Scofield, Epistle to Rilke's Angel

David Semanki, East River

Don Share, Grit

Reginald Shepard, At Weep

Alison Stine, Fall Burning

Elizabeth Brewster Thomas, Two Poems

Roderick Townley, Paula and Clara

Feature

Ezra Pound, "Yr Letters Are Life Preservers"

John Hall Wheelock, Literary Sketches

Art

Annie Coggan, Love Seats for Virginia Woolf