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The Paris Review No. 65, Spring 1976

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“At times, a certain amount of alcohol helps”: James Dickey on the Art of Poetry.

Stories by Alice Adams, Pati Hill, and George Stiles. Prose Poems by Robert Bly

Table of Contents

Fiction

Alice Adams, Flying

Pati Hill, The Falcon

George Stiles, I'll Always Remember Lavender

Interview

James Dickey, The Art of Poetry No. 20  Full Text

Poetry

Cathy Arden, The Missionary

Laurel Blossom, Plea to a Potential Lover

Maxine Chernoff, Two Poems

Nancy Condee, Four Poems

Richard Elman, Second Rumination

Gary Fincke, Two Poems

Siv Cedering Fox, Talking to Ann on the Telephone

James Galvin, Two Poems

Patricia Goedicke, Though It Looks Like a Throat It Is Not

Jill Grossman, Two Poems

Jim Gustavson, Homage

Marjorie Hawksworth, Wooden Legs

Gunter Kunert, The Central Station

Adam LeFevre, Facts About Nature I-II

Tom Luhrmann, The Approach of Winter

Robert Lundquist, A Place for Us to Sit Until Morning

Adrienne Marcus, Two Poems

Anne S. Perlman, Family Reunion

Albert Stainton, Two Poems

F. Keith Wahle, Sonnet

Jeffrey Wells-Powers, Two Poems

Paul Wilner, Serious Business

David Young, The Poem Against the Horizon

Feature

Robert Bly, Going Out to Check the Ewes, Walking Swiftly, The Left Hand, A Dream About Tiles on the Floor, The Large Animals

Art

William Anthony, Raid on a Whorehouse

Heinz Emigholz, A Portfolio