New Letters magazine

By Subscription, Volume 84 No. 1 (Fall 2017)

• Editor's Note

• 9 /

  Resolute

  , Robert Stewart

• Essays & Articles

• 11 /

  Afternoon with Michelle

  , Lisa Dawes Stewart
• 23 /

  Between Sin and Sin: Border Crossings

  , Peter Chilson
• 57 /

  Shrink

  , Sheila Kohler
• 113 /

  The Mind

  , Kathrin Perutz
• 127 /

  The Debt I Owe to Tony Beasley

  , Patrick Dobson

• Poetry

• 17 /

  Gigantic Day

  , Michelle Boisseau
• 19 /

  A Gifted Woman

  , Thomas Stroik
• 20 /

  There will be no hospice

  , Max McBride
• 35 /

  Three Poems

  , Kelly Cherry
• 38 /

  Two Poems

  , H.C. Palmer
• 40 /

  Four Poems

  , Albert Goldbarth
• 63 /

  After

  , Hilma Wolitzer
• 64 /

  Two Poems

  , Cameron Morse
• 66 /

  Two Poems

  , James Ragan
• 73 /

  Two Poems

  , James Bargowski
• 73 /

  Three Poems, from The Mackinac Suite, with art by Stanley Bielecky

  , James Bogan
• 79 /

  The Skeptic Said, "All People Are Bad"

  , Gary Soto
• 80 /

  Two Poems

  , Charles Harper Webb
• 84 /

  The Hermit Speaks to His Dogs

  , Daniel Lusk
• 86 /

  Two Poems

  , Carl Dennis
• 95 /

  Walking All Night with Borges in Buenos Aires, a poem

  , Willis Barnstone
• 119 /

  Five Poems

  , Willis Barnstone

• Artwork

• 18 /

  Hillsdale Lake Clover, Miami County, Kansas, July 2015. Photograph

  , Lisa Stewart
• 22 /

  Brown Tumbler, Flashe, sand, cardboard with decollage

  , Garry Noland
• 49 /

  The Changing, Ink made from charcoal and raspberries on paper. From Empty Dresses, Historic Media

  , Paula Streeter
• 50 /

  Blood in the Snow—Homage to Abbie Gardener Sharpe, copper point, egg tempera and berry ink on board. From Empty Dresses, Historic Media

  , Paula Streeter
• 51 /

  Oh, Baby, colored pencil. From Empty Dresses, Childhood Lost

  , Paula Streeter
• 52 /

  Tears of the Earth, walnut ink and egg tempera made with traditional Sioux pigments. From Empty Dresses, Historic Media

  , Paula Streeter
• 53 /

  2000, colored pencil and ink. From Empty Dresses, Handled

  , Paul Streeter
• 54 /

  1960, colored pencil. From Empty Dresses, Handled

  , Paula Streeter
• 55 /

  Red Tread, graphite, red thread, needle on paper. From Empty Dresses, Chilhood Lost

  , Paula Streeter
• 56 /

  Knot, silverpoint on board. From Empty Dresses, Childhood Lost

  , Paula Streeter
• 72 /

  In Boats and Buggies, watercolor

  , Stanley Bielecky
• 74 /

  All Blue, watercolor

  , Stanley Bielecky
• 76 /

  On the Arnold Dock, watercolor

  , Stanley Bielecky
• 90 /

  Willis Barnstone, Square Louvois, near Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris 2015, photograph

  , Sarah Handler
• 105 /

  Attention Fascists, collage on Department of Agriculture’s 1963 “America the Beautiful Series” poster

  , Garry Noland
• 106 /

  Attention Fascists, collage on Department of Agriculture’s 1963 “America the Beautiful Series” poster

  , Garry Noland
• 107 /

  Attention Fascists, collage on Department of Agriculture’s 1963 “America the Beautiful Series” poster

  , Garry Noland
• 108 /

  Attention Fascists, collage on Department of Agriculture’s 1963 “America the Beautiful Series” poster

  , Garry Noland
• 109 /

  Source Material for Attention Fascists. Alitalia Advertisement, National Geographic, 1966, photograph

  , Garry Noland
• 111 /

  Flagging, styrofoam, cardboard, flashe, tape screws with decollage

  , Garry Noland
• 112 /

  Convergent Strips, flashe with decollage, honeycomb board,  

  , Garry Noland
• 118 /

  Willis Barnstone writing a poem at the wall of a temple facing the crescent moon shaped lake, Hongcun village, China 2006, photograph

  , Sarah Handler
• 110 /

  Attention Fascists, collage on Department of Agriculture’s 1963 “America the Beautiful Series” poster

  , Garry Noland

• Contributor Notes

• 0 /

  Notes on Writers & Artists in This Issue

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• Introductions & Notes

• 46 /

  Paula Streeter: The Art of Empty Dresses

  , Robert Stewart
• 47 /

  Empty Dresses: An Introduction to the Art

  , Paula Streeter
• 91 /

  Willis Barnstone, a celebration at 90

  , Robert Stewart
• 92 /

  Willis Barnstone: Bibliography of contributions to New Letters (1973-2017)

  , New Letters' Staff
• 104 /

  America the Beautiful: An Introduction to the Art

  , Garry Noland

• Reviews

• 131 /

  "A New & Timeless Sappho," on the new translation by Stanley Lombardo

  , Denise Low
• 135 /

  "New England Alchemy," on poems by Megan Grumbling

  , Kevin O'Connor
• 139 /

  "Do What a Poem Does," on a single poem by Greg Pape

  , Robert Stewart