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The Paris Review No. 169, Spring 2004

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An Art of Poetry interview with Paul Muldoon: “Humility is a requisite and I fear Yeats was not strong in the humility department.”

An oral biography of Dylan Thomas: “That boy was always there, the one who shocked the girls in the Mumbles by whistling at them and saying, ‘That’s a pretty pair of knockers.’”

Stories by Melvin Jules Bukiet and Melanie Rae Thon. Poems by Peter Nickowitz, Linda Pastan, and Karen Volkman.

Table of Contents

Fiction

Melvin Jules Bukiet, Manhattan Reverie

Rick Moody, Savasana

Melanie Rae Thon, Heavenly Creatures

Interview

Richard Howard, The Art of Poetry No. 86  Full Text

Paul Muldoon, The Art of Poetry No. 87  Full Text

Poetry

David Baker, Melancholy Man

Maureen Bloomfield, Two Poems

Betsy Bonner, Three Poems

David Bottoms, Andalusia Visit

Douglas Browne, Two Poems

Cassandra Cleghorn, Three Poems

Martha Collins, Two Poems

Robert Cording, Much Laughter

Steven Cramer, Two Poems

Cynthia Cruz, Two Poems

Fred Dings, The Migrant Couple

Margaret Funkhouser, Two Poems

David Goldstein, Two Poems

Debora Greger, Sleeping Beauty in Florida

Daniel Groves, Portrait

Jared Hayley, Two Poems

Paul Kane, Two Poems

Lance Larsen, Two Poems

Richard Lyons, Two Poems

Cynthia Macdonald, Wait in the Chair

Sarah Manguso, The Haunted Igloo

Molly McQuade, Two Poems

Michael Mendonsa, Two Poems

Christian Nagle, Two Poems

Peter Nickowitz, Cinema Vernacular

Linda Pastan, Geography

Lucia Perillo, Two Poems

Joanna Smith Rakoff, Two Poems

Robert Richman, Evil

Arthur Rimbaud, Idol

Paul Ruffin, The Leopard Muses on His Spots

Margaret Ryan, Two Poems

Grace Schulman, The Footbridge

Patty Seyburn, Where Were You, Nymphs?

Ravi Shankar, Three Poems

Phillip Sterling, Criteria

Alexandra Teague, Cave Tours

Daniel Tiffany, Sappho's Tantrum

Nance Van Winckel, Threshold

Karen Volkman, Two Poems

Sarah White, Two Poems

Rebecca Wolff, Bell Ringer for Weather

Feature

Paul Ferris, Ink Is Wanted by Raving Brother: Dylan Thomas's Swansea Years

Art

Lee Friedlander, Sticks & Stones

Chris Gallagher, Fly-By (II)