No. 29

Summer 2005

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Fugue Fourth Annual Contest in Prose & Poetry Winners:

Nonfiction—Judged by Rebecca McClanahan

Iraj Isaac Rahmim, Memoirs of an Exile (1st Prize)
Will Jennings, How I Know Orion (2nd Prize)
Melita Schaum, Restraints(3rd Prize)

Poetry—Judged by Tony Hoagland

Michael Bassett, The Blackboard of His Eyelid (1st Prize)
Chris Ransick, How I Swam to the Bottom of the Ocean
        (2nd Prize)
Brandel France de Bravo, Apricot (3rd Prize)

W.S. Merwin: A Feature

Robert Wrigley

Jeffrey Greene

Betty Adcock

James Richardson
Judith Freeman

Ed Skoog


Marilyn Krysl
Willis Barnstone
Christopher Buckley
Ann Fisher-Wirth
Suzanne Paola
Tod Marshall


Tony Hoagland

John Balaban
Toi Derricotte
R.T. Smith

- An Amplitude of Stars: On W.S.   Merwin
-Read Seeds Not Twigs: A   Tribute to W.S. Merwin
- Surprised by Merwin: A   Personal Appreciation
- On W.S. Merwin
-Everything Takes   Me by   Surprise
-“When you look at things in   rows, how do you feel?”: An   Appreciation of W.S. Merwin
-Let There Be Praise
-W.S. Merwin, Prince
-Seen from Afterward
-W.S. Merwin's The Folding Cliffs
-A Tribute for W.S. Merwin
-“There is no loneliness like   theirs”: Solitude and Otherness   in Early Merwin
-Tireless Traveller: My W.S.   Merwin
-A Life in Letters
-Two Poems for W.S. Merwin
-Merwin's Arrows

 

Fiction

Karen Gettert Shoemaker
Jody Lisberger
Chad Willenborg
Molly Lewis
J. David Stevens
Justin Courter
Rajeev Balasubramanyam
Katherine Taylor
Robert Boswell

- Cain's Sister
- In The Mercy of Water
- Plowing the Stars
- Centavos Like Stone
- Dragon
- You Can Have the Jam
- The Story
 
- We Will Go On Like This
- Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards

Essay

Susanna Lippóczy Rich

- [Confess] Caress the Dragon:   [Writhing] Writing Memoir
 

Poetry

Reginald Shepherd

Dean Young  
 
 
 
Anselm Berrigan
George Higgins
 
Sandy Longhorn
Sonja Livingston
F. D aniel Rzicznek
Joanna Osborne
John Gibler
Jacqueline Jones LaMon

- Cold Pastoral
  In Bloom
  Some Dreams He Forgot
-Space Is Not Consistent Increment nor Continuous
  Condo Rat Lab
  Rookie Nookie
-Gesticulating bestiary summit
-Chops
  Furred Cup
-In Her Mother's Country
-Mendicant

-Primer
-Biography
-The Anthropologist
-Going for this It

Interview

W.S. Merwin      - An interview by Ben George

Cover Art

Julie Langsam--Eisenman Landscape (Frank House)