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The Paris Review No. 94, Winter 1984

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A sound metaphysic: Robert Fitzgerald on the Art of Translation.

“We just snap the pictures and hope for the best”: A Warhol Portrait Gallery, featuring Allen Ginsberg, James Baldwin, and Gore Vidal.

Stories by Michael Covino, Mary Morris, Ann Patchett, and Larry Woiwode. Poems by Ron Padgett and Sherod Santos.

Table of Contents

Fiction

Michael Covino, Monologue of the Movie Mogul

Mary Morris, Orphans of the Storm

Ann Patchett, All Little Colored Children Should Play the Harmonica

Larry Woiwode, Wanting an Orange

Interview

J. G. Ballard, The Art of Fiction No. 85  Full Text

Robert Fitzgerald, The Art of Translation No. 1  Full Text

Poetry

Robert Carnevale, Exemplary

Albert Goldbarth, Gardening

Rachel Hadas, Whether

Daniel Halpern, Loose

Horace, Snow Drifts

Hugh Kenner, Mixpoem: A Feature

James Laughlin, The Non-World

James Laughlin, Mixpoem: A Feature

Joseph Lease, Overshadowed by Colors

William Logan, August in the Straits

Robert Louthan, Something You Want

Ron Padgett, First Drift

Jim Powell, Two Poems

Michael J. Rosen, Refrigerium

L.M. Rosenberg, Two Poems

Sherod Santos, Photograph of My Father

John Updike, Ode to Fragmentation

Feature

Andy Warhol, A Warhol Portrait Gallery

Art

Auste, . . . Only twisted whims of Mist Through the Sleeves passed like Arms . . .

M. Louise Stanley, Drawings