The Southern California Anthology, v. 15 (1998)

The Southern California Anthology (1998) volume 15. Published annually. CONTENTS: A New Day / Madla Hruza -- The Artist in an Era of Intellectual Recession / James Ragan -- Kissing the Aborigines / Philip Appleman -- The City of New Ark: A Poem of Destiny / Amiri Baraka -- Meditation on Dust / Marvin Bell -- Nature and Thought / Robert Bly -- Pedestrian Song / Don Bogen -- When I'm: Where You / Philip Booth -- Poem Catching Up with an Idea / Hayden Carruth -- Remote Control / John Ciardi -- somewhere in another country / Ruth Daigon -- Panic: A Short Story / Nicholas Delbanco -- Mole Man / Stuart Dybek -- The Wound of Desire / Russell Edson -- Even in Eden / Irving Feldman -- The Sea is Calm Tonight / Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- Crowfoot / George Garrett -- Dream Record, June 9, 1955 / Allen Ginsberg -- Eight Variations on a Familiar Theme / Doris Grumbach -- Pastoral / Donald Hall -- The Story of "The Geese"; The Geese / Larry Heinemann -- Antique Fragments / John Hollander -- Scene with Fiddlers / Miroslav Holub -- And Run / David Ignatow -- Reuben Farr / X.J. Kennedy -- Election Day, 1984 / Carolyn Kizer -- Ode to a Drum / Yusuf Komenyakaa -- Hey Dude / Maxine Kumin -- Variation on a Theme by Rilke / Denise Levertov -- The Girl on the Flagpole / Jack Matthews -- Housecooling / William Matthews -- Whom I Miss / Heather McHugh -- Rescue / James Merrill -- P.M. / Lisel Mueller -- Asbestos / Carol Muske -- Palinode / John Frederick Nims -- Area Man Found Crucified / Joyce Carol Oates -- Death of a Potter / Linda Pastan -- From a Poem / Boris Pasternak -- A penetrating cold / Marge Piercy -- One Country: 1991 / Holly Prado -- The Rivers of Paris / James Ragan -- From Autobiography: A Novel / John Rechy -- What is Lost / Fernando Garcia Roman -- Foliage / Susan Fromberg Schaeffer -- Un-Spring-Like Thoughts on the First Day of Spring / Budd Schulberg -- Tomorrow / Hubert Selby Jr. -- The Clouds / Charles Simic -- The Dental Assistant / Louis Simpson -- Sitting Bull in Serbia / William Jay Smith -- Leaving the Islands / David St. John -- When it Comes / William Stafford -- The Birds and Columbus / Ann Stanford -- The Midnight Club / Mark Strand -- This Time / Gerald Stern -- The Flood / Gladys Swan -- Iron Currycomb / Anna Swir -- Iron Currycomb / Czeslaw Milosz -- Iron Currycomb / Leonard Nathan -- Ali in Havana / Gay Talese -- Flying Over Peoria / Henry Taylor -- Pasha's Daughter, 1914 / Richard Tillinghast -- Envy of Others Lives / Constance Urdang -- After Consciousness of This Big Form / Jean Valentine -- The Eskimos We Tracked Slept Six to A blanket / William F. Van Wert -- Window Light / Peter Viereck -- A Man is Changing His Skin / Andrei Voznesensky -- Cannon Beach / Diane Wakoski -- A Catch / Theodore Weiss -- The Thousand-and-Second Night / Robley Wilson -- Cold Spring Harbor / Richard Yates -- Siberian Wooing / Yevgeny Yevtushenko -- Went into a Red Wall / Gozo Yoshimasu.