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The Paris Review No. 84, Summer 1982

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“One doesn’t study poets! You read them and think, That’s marvelous, how is it done? Could I do it?” Philip Larkin on the Art of Poetry.

James Merrill on getting to know Auden “not in this world” and the “misplaced religion” of Ouija.

Stories by T. Coraghessan Boyle, Norman Rush, and Edmund White. Poems by David Lehman and Charles Simic.

Table of Contents

Fiction

T. Coraghessan Boyle, Greasy Lake

William Ferguson, A Summer at Estabrook

Norman Rush, Lying Presences

Edmund White, The Secret Order of Joy

Interview

Philip Larkin, The Art of Poetry No. 30  Full Text

James Merrill, The Art of Poetry No. 31  Full Text

Poetry

George Bradley, Two Poems

Michel Deguy, Three Poems

Tom Disch, Two Poems

Charles Fowler, Fust

Mark Halliday, Ballplayer at Midnight

Daniel Halpern, On a Little Theme

Daniel Halpern, Passing

Adam LeFevre, Nocturne with Cows

David Lehman, Love and Destiny

James Merrill, Five Poems

John Morgan, The Inlet

Lisel Mueller, Monet Refuses the Operation

Robert Phillips, The Land: A Love Letter

Wendy Salinger, The Eternal Boy

Stephen Sandy, Two Poems

Hugh Seidman, Kaddish

Harvey Shapiro, On a Saturday

Charles Simic, Two Poems

Feature

Archibald MacLeish, The Selected Letters of Archibald MacLeish

Art

Jennifer Bartlett, In the Garden

Jenny Holzer, Living Series

Peter Nadin, Living Series

William T. Wiley, Graphics

Joe Zucker, Left and Right Hand Devils