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)

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interesting to note that a number of his songs are women's names: Audrey, Mili, Susie, Wendy.) He went to hear musicians he admired: Zoot Sims, Al Cohn, Blossom Dearie, Lee Konitz, Bill Evans. Many times the musicians he admired, who admired him, asked him to sit in with their shows, and he would gently decline - even though, as Doug Ramsey notes, Desmond loved to play "anything, with anyone, at a moment's notice."

Money was no particular worry, what with royalties from his songs and recordings. He entertained offers for his book, and met with publishers and agents here and there, but no contracts were signed.

How he filled his days no one knows, not even Brubeck. Perhaps they were dark days. "There's an area in Paul that he hasn't been able to realize yet," said the alto sax player Lee Konitz in 1960. "That's why he gets so depressed - he needs more time to know himself, so that he will get to like himself better. I don't think he has enough time for reflection and thought. I feel that Paul has experienced greatness, and once this feeling of playing what you really hear has been felt by a player, it's difficult to settle for less than this."

"If you knew the story, you could forgive Paul anything," Brubeck has famously and mysteriously remarked about his friend - a remark he has never elucidated, and never will, he says. "A deeply private man," says Iola Brubeck. "Charming and funny, and he had many friends, but he depart-mentalized or compartmentalized his friends, in a sense - he had drinking friends, musical friends, literary friends, romantic friends, and the circles rarely if ever overlapped."

"He was the loneliest man I ever met," says his friend Gene Lees. "Astonishingly selfish, in that he was totally focused on himself, not one to give of his inner feelings, although he was very generous and not at all greedy. He just did what he did and that was his focus. I adored the man. He was brilliant beyond belief in person and as a

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