No. 164 (Summer 1990)

Contents

Fiction
5        Eugene McNamara: This Is Just To Say
25      Margaret Dyment: Owl Girl
49      Leo McKay Jr.: Like This
63      Anne Montagnes: Across the Circle at 9.00
83      Carolyn Struthers: Cars

Poetry
14      Robert Hilles: Necessary Fictions
16      Quiet Rage
18      Spring Canto
20      David P. Reiter: At Ainsworth Hot Springs
21      Sandon Now
23      Alfred G. Bailey: Armageddon
37      Nadine McInnis: blasting river ice
42      Yvonne Trainer: Vancouver Children's Hospital, May 1988
44      Richard The World is a Nighmare
53      Wayne Tompkins: Small Town confessions
56      April MacCormack: A Cat Considers Classical Music
57      At Twelve
58      What We Would Like
59      Nathan Cervo: Difficulties in Dying
60      The Wop
71      Todd Swift: Smoke and Candyglass
74      Naomi Rachel: Alpha / Omega
76      Process of Elimination
78      Anne Kelly: Quilting
79      Graveyard Walk
80      Gary Atlin: Tornado Skies over Ames, Iowa: June 1, 1985
81      Amblyopia: Right Eye

Review Articles
91      Bruce Whiteman: Part-Time Work
          Kinetic Mustache, Arthur Clark
          Sky Falling Sunny Tomorrow, Rod Anderson
93      Gregor Campbell: Poems and Things
          Upper Cape Poems, Douglas Lochhead
          In the Beginning was the Word, David Andrus
97      M. Travis Lane: "Heart on Fist": Three Translations
          Selected Poems, Anne Hébert
          Bee-Buzz, Salmon-Leap, Knut Ødegård
          Selected Poems, Tarjei Vesaas
103    Harold Barratt: In Search of the Caribbean Demotic
          She Tries Her Tongue, Her SIlence Softly Breaks, Marlene Nourbese Philip

107    Contributors

Art
William Goodridge Roberts
Cover
Reclining Nude, 1961
oil on masonite 40 x 48" 

Toby Graser
acrylic and mixed media 
24      Oriental Etude 1
62      Oriental Etude 7
82      Oriental Etude 5