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The Paris Review No. 77, Winter-Spring 1980

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“The most common fault of experienced poets is that they acquire facility which reduces tension in their art”: Stephen Spender on the Art of Poetry.

Stories by John Domini, William Reese Hamilton, and Mark Strand. Poems by Ai, David Bottroms, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, and David St. John.

Table of Contents

Fiction

Prudence Crowther, Frozen Assets

John Domini, Laugh Kookaberry, Laugh Kookaberry, Gay Your Life Must Be

William Reese Hamilton, Family Album

David Ohle, The Flocculus

Roger Salloch, Nightrise

Mark Strand, The Gift

Interview

Stephen Spender, The Art of Poetry No. 25  Full Text

Poetry

Ai, Two Poems

David Bottoms, The Tent Astronomer

Joseph Brodsky, Lagoon

Jane Cooper, House Poem

Alfred Corn, Two Poems

Jim Daniels, Going Up and Down

Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Two Poems

Reginald Gibbons, Two Poems

Celia Gilbert, Eurydice's Song

Diana O Hehir, Sleeping Pill

David St. John, Of the Remembered

Lawrence Kearney, Jacob and the Angel

Philip Levine, She's Not Gone

Alice Mattison, Breastfeeding

James McMichael, from Four Good Things

Gregory Orr, Four Poems

Katha Pollitt, Two Poems

Ira Sadoff, February: Pemaquid Point

Jonathan Sisson, Movable Type

David Smith, Three Poems

William Stafford, Two Poems

Stephen Tapscott, Oats

Alan Williamson, House Moving from Tournon to Bescancon

Art

Marsha Burns, Snowgoose