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The Paris Review No. 52, Summer 1971

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“That ragged Christ, that sufferer, performed the greatest act of confession, and I mean with his body. I try to do that with words”: An interview with Anne Sexton.

James Blake's prison letters to Nelson Algren.

Stories by Paul West and Joyce Carol Oates. Poems by Jim Dine and John Koethe.

Table of Contents

Fiction

Michael Brownstein, Three Stories

Keith Cohen, Phenomenal Feelings

Harry Mathews, The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium

Joyce Carol Oates, Plot

Paul West, Caliban's Filibuster

Interview

Anne Sexton, The Art of Poetry No. 15

Poetry

Ted Berrigan, Things To Do In Providence

Scott Cohen, Two Poems

Jack Collom, Two Poems

Jim Dine, Two Poems

David Henderson, Canticle

Anselm Hollo, To Be Born Again

John Koethe, A Sunday Drive

Frank Lima, Two Poems

Harris Schiff, Pure Poison

Lewis Warsh, Two Poems

Feature

James Blake, The Happy Islanders