New Letters, Volume 69 Number 2-3

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New Letters, Volume 69 Number 2-3
7 / Editor's Note, Robert Stewart

E S S A Y S

26 / On Rediscovering Vincent O. Carter, an introduction, Chip Fleischer
55 / Robert Stackhouse: Artist As Shapeshifter, an introduction, Elisabeth Kirsch
73 / Real Words, Paul Zimmer
101 / How Many of You Are There In the Quartet?, Brian Doyle
119 / Alice, Judy Ray
157 / Looking Out, Gary Gildner

P O E T R Y

8 / Six Poems, Naomi Shihab Nye
14 / Four Poems, Quincy Troupe
20 / Two Poems, Marilyn Hacker
93 / Tools, Joseph Millar
94 / Luminous Blue Variables, Michelle Boisseau
133 / When I Left, Vanessa Sooy
136 / On the Holy Friar Crossing a Suspension Bridge to Paradise, Joanna Goodman
138 / We are not Creatures of a Single Day, trans. by David McDuff, Pia Tafdrup
140 / Two Poems, Judith Berke
170 / Looking for the Man in the Moon, Suzanne Rhodenbaugh
210 / The Summer Carnival, Luisa Igloria
212 / Two Poems, Donald Junkins

F I C T I O N

33 / The Song of Evening, Vincent O. Carter
59 / Songs Without Words, Charlotte Holmes
65 / Kismet, Sarah A. Odishoo
79 / Amnesty Barracks, Daniel Woodrell
215 / The Pleasure of Man and Woman Together on Earth, Thomas E. Kennedy

I N T E R V I E W

142 / The Subject is Life, conducted, by Angela Elam, Naomi Shihab Nye

T H E L I T E R A R Y A W A R D S

172 / Awards, an introduction, Aleatha Ezra
173 / Stone or Water, first place, The Alexander Patterson Cappon Award for Fiction, Janet L. Thompson
189 / On the Edge of Ice, first place, The Dorothy Churchill Cappon award for creative nonfiction, Monica Devine
199 / Five Poems, first place, the New Letters poetry award, Ellen Bass

R E V I E W S

241 / H. L. Hix, "Modes of Sacred Speech": A review of poetry books by Grace Schulman, Miranda Field, Natasha Trethewey, Jacqueline Marcus, Linda Gregerson.
253 / Conger Beasley Jr., "Anything Could Occur": A review of Hart Crane: A Life, by Clive Fisher.

A R T W O R K

Robert Stackhouse, drawings, etching, lithographs, front cover & pages, 6, 53, 54, 58, 72, 78, 118, 131, 132, 156, 171, 188, 198, 209, 214. (Introductory essay by Elisabeth Kirsch, page 55.)
258 / Awards Honor Roll
260 / New Programs: New Letters on the Air
260 / Celebrations: News From Our Authors
261 / Visitors' Log: The New Letters Guest Book
262 / NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS


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How Many of You Are There in the Quartet? (Brian Doyle)

The late saxophone player Paul Desmond, whose martini- dry sound was the engine behind the Dave Brubeck

Quartet, was reportedly working on a memoir up until he died in 1977. He never finished it. There are a number of theories as to why he never finished it. One story is that he would tear it up and start over whenever he got close to a finished manuscript. Another story is that he talked about it but never actually wrote any of it - a tale belied by the appearance, in 1973, of an ostensible chapter of the book in Punch. A third story is that he wrote only when he was not sipping Scotch, and so never wrote much.

Desmond himself liked to talk about the book, although he conceded to a reporter, "It's largely a fraud. That's my cover story. I had thought of writing a book before I began hanging out at Elaine's, and found that most of the heavy writers there had Walter Mitty dreams about being jazz players."

This cover story - that he didn't really work on the book - was itself a cover story, because perhaps he did work

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