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The Paris Review No. 55, Fall 1972

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“I suddenly see my words with the eyes of the cold public. It gives me a terrible sense of exposure, as if I’d gotten sunburned”: Eudora Welty on the Art of Fiction.

Stories by Walter Abish, James Salter, and James Schuyler. Poems by Edward Dorn, Jim Gustafson, and Michael McClure.

Table of Contents

Fiction

Walter Abish, The Second Leg

Don Asher, Ambassador

Hampton Hawes, Ambassador

Judith Rascoe, Meter, Measure

James Salter, Via Negativa  Full Text

James Schuyler, Life Death and Other Dreams

Interview

Eudora Welty, The Art of Fiction No. 47  Full Text

Poetry

Jim Brodey, Two Poems

Stephen A. Canada, Two Poems

Loren Paul Caplin, Charlie's Eye

Edward Dorn, The Poet

John Giorno, Guru Rinpoche

Jim Gustafson, Two Poems

Lou Horvath, Not Here

Dennis Jarrett, Summer Night

Michael McClure, Two Poems

George Pitts, Scars

Charles Plymell, At a Gas Station in Kansas

Lorenzo Thomas, Two Poems

Charlie Vermont, Poem

Art

Denise Green, Rialto Phosphenes