New Letters, Volume 69 Number 2-3

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

S T A F F

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

I'd like to study some more. I'm going to try to go to Europe to study. I had the pleasure to meet one Edgar Varese recently. He's a classical composer from France, very nice fellow, and he wants to teach me. I might have the chance to go to the Academy of Music in Paris and study, you know. My prime interest still is learning to play music, you know.

How did you meet Miles Davis?

I met Miles in 1944, in St. Louis, when he was a youngster and was still going to school. This was when Billy Eckstine had formed his own organization. Dizzy was in that band, and a lot of other fellows, and last and least, yours truly.

Modesty will get you nowhere, Charlie.

Solo

Dave Brubeck broke up the Dave Brubeck Quartet on the day after Christmas in 1967. He had given everyone a year's notice, but no one believed him until the very last set. The band played in a hotel ballroom in Pittsburgh and then retreated upstairs and had a terrific party complete with a box of apples sent up by the musician Paul Winter and his mother.

It was an amicable parting, as such things go: Brubeck wanted to compose and be with his family; all four of the members were tired of the ferocious schedule, and all four were still friends, even after many thousands of miles and performances and car rides and planes and buses and sticky summer mornings in small towns with bad food and no toothbrush and a sound system borrowed from the high school audio-visual department.

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