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The Paris Review No. 53, Winter 1972

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“So I gave him a Craven-A and then lit it for him, and I thought ‘Immortality is mine! From now on it’s just a question of reaping the fruits of my efforts’”: John Berryman gives a cigarette to William Butler Yeats.

Stories by John Ashbery and Glen Baxter. Poems by Ted Berrigan, Lou Reed, and Anne Waldman.

Table of Contents

Fiction

John Ashbery, The System

Glen Baxter, Stories

Kenneth Bernard, For Irving: A Conversation

Harry Mathews, The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium

Interview

John Berryman, The Art of Poetry No. 16  Full Text

Poetry

Bruce Andrews, Poem

Ted Berrigan, Three Sonnets

Larry Fagin, Poems (1970)

Allen Ginsberg, Elegy for Neal Cassidy

M. S. Lazarchuk, Johnny

Alice Notley, Four Sonnets

Sarah Plimpton, Poem

Lou Reed, The Murder Mystery

David Rosenberg, Afternoon

Aram Saroyan, Poems

James Schuyler, Seven Poems

David Shapiro, Ode

John Thorpe, I Just Lost My Tension Again

Anne Waldman, Curt Flood

Art

Joe Brainard, Amazing But True