Antaeus #75/76, Autumn, 1994: The Final Issue

by Daniel Halpern (Editor), Margaret Atwood (Contributor), Paul Auster (Contributor)

Fiction
Simple Murders by Margaret Atwood
Last Days by Paul Auster
Canadians by Russell Banks
The Infamous Fall of Howell the Clown by Ann Beattie
Afternoon with Antaeus by Paul Bowles
I Would Love You Like a Jacaranda by Sandra Cisneros
Videotape by Don DeLillo
Middlewest by Richard Ford
Pavel Hudak, the Poet, Is Talking by Gary Gildner
Visiting Oupa by Nadine Gordimer
Longing by Shirley Hazzard
Trophy by William Hoffman
Macedonia: Days of 1944 by Edmund Keeley
Blind Willie by Stephen King
Oft in the Stilly Night by Colleen McCullough
The People Next Door by Mary Morris
Parrots, Ltd. by R. K Narayan
Mark of Satan by Joyce Carol Oates
A Case for Political Inspectors by Josef Skvorecky
The Life of the Body by Jane Smiley
The Potato Dealer by William Trevor
Two Boys and a Girl by Tobias Wolff


Poetry
Dangerous moonlight by John Ashberry
A coin for Joe, with the image of a horse; c. 350-325 BC by Frank Bidart
Evangelical by Lucie Brock-Broido
Anti-Shenandoah: two skits and a chorus of Going east by Joseph Brodsky
Between the earthquake, the volcano and the leopard by Charles Bukowski
The ships by C. P. Cavafy
Rune for the parable of despair by Deborah Digges
Pastoral by Annie Dillard
Painful fingers by Stephen Dobyns
The living by Stephen Dunn
Apocalypse of Les Halles by Allen Ginsberg
Symposium by Louise Gluck Flood by Jorie Graham
Sonoran radio by Jim Harrison
Dragonflies mating by Robert Hass
Damson by Seamus Heaney
The unbeginning by Brenda Hillman
Days of 1968 by Edward Hirsch
Imitations of immortality by Michael Hofmann
Homage to Antonio Canaletto by Richard Howard
The locket by Ted Hughes
The music of poetry by Galway Kinnell
Reunion by Carolyn Kizer
Children who fall off the edge of the world by Cynthia MacDonald
Cancer talk by William Matthews
Elegy for three by Robert Mazzocco
The first trimester by Campbell McGrath
Scrapping the computer by James Merrill
Posessions by W.S. Merwin
This world by Czeslaw Milosz
Music by Susan Mitchell
Sunday night by Sharon Olds
Night fever by Michael Ondaatje
Poem with refrains by Robert Pinsky
Panegyric for Gee by Stanley Plumly
The figure You by David St. John
Expulsion by Grace Shulman
Relaxing in a madhouse by Charles Simic
Daconstruction by Gary Snyder
A missed opportunity by James Tate
Recorded birds by Chase Twitchell
From the house on Nguyen Du by Bruce Weigl
Secrets by C. K. Williams
Omaggio a Montale by Charles Wright


Documents
There once was a lady who did ... by Roy Blount Jr.
The birds of Paolo Uccello by Italo Calvino
Notebook by President Bill Clinton
Ten poems by Hart Crane
Life with daughters: an essay on proportionality by Gerald Early
Finding a form by William H. Gass
Serious life: a locket by Edward Gorey
The unpublished opening of The sun also rises by Ernest Hemingway
Letter to Ernest Hemingway on The sun also rises by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A reviewer's beginnings by Helen Vendler
An open letter by Paul Bowles
Airborne Antaeus by Ed Koren

410 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1994

Reviews

[Seon Ji (Dawn)]

Putting this aside for now. Not grabbing me. Will come back another day to finish.




1. Margaret Atwood "Simple Murders. (2 pages). A few paragraphs describing several murders and motives. Written poetically. Nice.

2. Paul Auster "Last Days" (6 pages) Mr. Bones' "dogs eye view" as he watches his master Willie live his final day. Willie was an aspirant writer who's muse was a High school teacher he was infatuated with. Willie has two things to do before he passes. Good. Open ending.

3. Russell Banks "Canadians" (6 pages) A 15 year old boy/punk rocker/biker has a bizarre encounter with a man and a little girl at the local mall. Written in the first person. It was ok. Nothing more than "an hour in the life of..."

4. Ann Beattie "The infamous fall of Howell the Clown" (9 pages). Ok. Howell dies in a strange manner. A woman's view of her childhood and current life centering around that event of her past.

5. Paul Bowles "Afternoon with Antaus" (currently reading 3 pages)

6. Sandra Cisneros "I Would Love You Like A Jacaranda (1 page) Interesting. My interpretation is that of awakening a soul to love and the dangers of greed , desire and the identity of the body. Told poetically and symbolically.

7. Don DeLillo "Videotape: (3 pages)

8. Richard Ford "Middlewest" (10 pages)




Bought for S. Kings Unedited version of Blind Willie. Read that one first.

Here's the review of that short story.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I will be reading the others slowly and update as I continue.