No. 177 (Autumn 1993)

Contents

Fiction
18      Paula Butler: Rending the Fabric 
39      J.M. Hull: Mac and Bessie
57      C.R. Crackel: Hanging out a Window in God's Clean Wind
77      André LaPalme: Customers
93      A. Colin Wright: A Pregnant Woman With Parcels . . .

Poetry
5        Don Domanski: Firedrake
32      Joan MacLeod: When I am Married and Portugese
43      Brian Bartlett: Trailing Juniper
51      J. Michael Yates: Slough: The Birds
72      Stan Rogal: Laughing Matter
73      Portrait of the Artist in a Flowered Hat
74      Matt Santateresa: For This Country
89      Janet Madsen: Every Skin of Brightness
91      Thick Light
98      Phyllis Gottlieb: What I Know . . .
99      Mothersuite 1&2
103    Bill Foxcroft: Once Again, The
104    Gigi Marks: Tree Cutting
105    Up to Date
106    Henry Israeli: Green Lines Across the Quiet Field
106    Hairshirt
107    Ritual Uncertainties 

Review Articles
108    Monty Reid: The Refractive Index of Mark Frutkin's Brain
          Acts of Light, Mark Frutkin
113    Don Hannah: Passion Play
          Democracy, John Murrell
119    Séamus Ceallaigh: The Mortar and Immortality of Imagination
          Chips and Gravy, William Gough
          The Miraculous Hand and other stories, J.J. Steinfield

122    Contributors

Art 
Phillip Iverson
Cover  
Roses and Bricks
acrylic on wood
6 x 5'

17
Woman and Black Dog
mixed media
44 x 30"

38
Blue Boy
mixed media
44 x 30"

56
Woman and Two Sunflowers 
mixed media 
44 x 30"

92
The Kiss
mixed media
44 x 30"