THE PROSE POEM: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL

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1 THE PROSE POEM: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL Volume Frontmatter Providence College The author(s) permits users to copy, distribute, display, and perform this work under the following conditions: (1) the original author(s) must be given proper attribution; (2) this work may not be used for commercial purposes; (3) the users may not alter, transform, or build upon this work; (4) users must make the license terms of this work clearly known for any reuse or distribution of this work. Upon request, as holder of this work s copyright, the author(s) may waive any or all of these conditions. The Prose Poem: An International Journal is produced by The Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress) for the Providence College Digital Commons.

2 THE PROSE POEM: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL Volume 8/1999 Editor Peter Johnson Assistant Editor Brian Johnson Advisory Editor Donald L. Soucy Contributing Editors Michael Benedikt Robert Bly Russell Edson Sibyl James Morton Marcus Naomi Shihab Nye Charles Simic Staff Kurt Johnson Michael Kerns Chris Macli Janet Masso Kelly Spillane

3 Copyright 1999 by Providence College The Prose Poem: An International Journal is published annually by Providence College. Subscriptions: $8 per volume. Volume 9 will be a "Best of the Prose Poem" issue. Please make checks payable to Providence College. All correspondence and subscriptions should be directed to: Peter Johnson The Prose Poem: An International Journal English Department Providence College Providence, RI Manuscripts will be considered only between December 1 and March 1 of each reading period. Unsolicited work submitted before December 1 will be returned. Please include an SASE and a two-sentence biographical note. Please send no more than 3 to 5 poems. Note: we will not be reading again until December 1, Cover design by Robert Booth & Peter Johnson Layout & design by Robert Booth Printed by McNaughton & Gunn, Inc. Distributed in the United States by B. DeBoer, Inc., 113 E. Centre St., Rear,Nutley,NJ07110 Indexed by the Index of American Periodical Verse (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press). The Prose Poem: An International Journal's website can be found on Web Del Sol at Many thanks to Mike Neff for all of his work.

4 TABLE OF CONTENTS Zed Ander 6 Transegmentals Nin Andrews 7 In Grandma's Bathroom 8 My Aphrodisiac Rane Arroyo 9 Lucky, The Latin Lover Of Lombard, Illinois Dennis Barone 10 Fortunes Douglas Blazek 11 The Metaphor Robert Bly 12 The Mother's Son Shane Book 13 Voyeur Michael Bowden 14 If You're There Pick Up Elizabeth Brennan 15 Beyond Painting Joel Brouwer 16 Ignorance 17 Marked Christopher Buckley 18 Ignis Fatuus Maxine Chernoff 20 The Sound 22 The Method 25 Wearing Moe 27 Heavenly Bodies David Citino 29 The Land Of Liars Chard deniord 30 The Music Ray Dipalma 31 Dilation 32 Road Ray Gonzalez 33 Busy Cecil Helman 34 That UFO That Picked On Us Brian Henry 35 Inevitably, Perhaps Jennifer L. Holley 36 The Rubbing Gabe Hudson 37 I Had A Sister Named Table 38 Everything I Said Was A Punch Line Holly Iglesias 39 A Reading Christopher Buckley 40 The Lost Prose Poems of Larry Levis Larry Levis 44 The Leopard's Mouth Is Dry And Cold Inside 45 Toad, Hog, Assassin, Mirror 46 Schoolhouse 47 The Plains Alexander Long 48 Meditation On Suicide Robert Lunday 50 Durga* Morton Marcus 52 Three Heroes Christopher Merrill 53 From Necessities

5 Henri Michaux 56 Somebody Wants To Steal My Name 57 Simplicity 58 Plume Had A Sore Finger 60 Plume On The Ceiling Augusto Monterroso 61 Zorro Wises Up Nina Nyhart 62 Sleep Well 63 The Dwindlers Jane Lunin Perel 64 Blood Somewhere Constance Pultz 65 Lists Pierre Reverdy 66 Chance And The Lot Of Time 67 Combat Area 68 Behind The Eyelids Vern Rutsala 69 Hannelore Bruce Smith 71 Amerika J. David Stevens 72 Wild West 73 The Sign James Tate 75 To Each His Own 76 All Over The Lot 77 Her Silhouette Against The Alpenglow 78 Casting A Long Shadow Liz Waldner 79 Für Bowser Charles H. Webb 80 A Stockbroker Dreams A Story, Tom Whalen 82 Baseball David Young 83 Lullaby For The Elderly 84 Kitchen Ruckus Russell Edson 85 Interview The Art Of The Prose Poem Morton Marcus Nin Andrews Michael Benedikt Greg Boyd John Bradley Amy Gerstler Louis Jenkins Essay 101 The Fu: China And The Origins Of The Prose Poem Commentaries 110 Spontaneous Breasts 112 The Doorway Of Perception 114 Edouard 's Nose 116 Mortal Colors 118 Bitter Angel 120 Basketball

6 Mary A. Koncel RH. Liotta Jay Meek Robert Perchan Gary Young 122 After The Weather 124 The Blue Whale 127 Travel Notes 130 Neandertal Hotline 132 A Woman Leans Book Reviews Marjorie Perloff Michel Delville Elizabeth Gordon Brooke Horvath Elizabeth Willis Brian Johnson 134 Michel Delville's The American Prose Poem: Poetic Form and the Boundaries of Genre 139 Stephen Berg's Shaving Marie Harris' Weasel in the Turkey Pen 144 Linda Smukler's Home in three days. Don't wash. 147 Lissa McLaughlin's The Grouper Joseph Torra's Keep Watching the Sky Cecilia Woloch's Sacrifice 153 Killarney Clary's By Common Salt Laynie Browne's Rebecca Letters 156 Gian Lombardo's Who Lets Go First 159 Selected Bibliography 163 Contributors