The Montserrat Review
Issue #5 Table of Contents
| B.Z. Niditch | 1 |
Europa | |
4 |
J' Accuse | ||
| Robert S. Pesich | 5 |
Untitled | |
| Roberto Fernández Retamar | 6 |
Epitaph at The Bay of Pigs | |
7 |
Epitafio en Girón | ||
| Cintio Vitier | 8 |
Light of the Key | |
9 |
La Luz del Cayo | ||
| Wendy Herbert | 10 |
Messiah | |
| Lorin Oberweger | 11 |
Born | |
| Calder Lowe | 12 |
Firestarter | |
| Wendy Norris | 13 |
Births | |
14 |
Lullaby | ||
| Lara Gularte | 15 |
In March | |
| Esther Kamkar | 16 |
Tamar's Deer-Like Run | |
| Amy Uyematsu | 17 |
A Camellia Pinned To Your Hair | |
| James Doyle | 19 |
The Newborn... | |
20 |
Rachel | ||
| Gary Young | 21 |
Ten Poems | |
| Linda Ramey | 23 |
First Steps | |
| Eve Robillard | 24 |
For Dear Life | |
25 |
Sweet Dreams | ||
| JoAnne Growney | 26 |
The Witch | |
| Wendy Norris | 27 |
Wood | |
| Jon Cone | 29 |
How to Write a Letter to Someone Far Away | |
| Andrea Potos | 31 |
Persephone Remembers Hades | |
| Colette Inez | 32 |
Gascon Voices | |
| Ruth Corey Selman | 33 |
Medusa | |
| Susan Grimm | 34 |
The Peeling Away of Hands | |
| Roberto Fernández Retamar | 35 |
To My Daughters | |
36 |
A Mis Hijas | ||
| Grace Cavalieri | 37 |
Coming Home to Nettie | |
| Allan Peterson | 39 |
An Anecdote | |
| Aimee Cass | 40 |
Dream Sequence | |
| Eran Williams | 42 |
The Poet on Fire | |
| Sarah Patton | 43 |
After the Stroke | |
| Len Anderson | 44 |
My Father's Prayer | |
45 |
Angel in a Cage | ||
| Joan Ohanneson | 48 |
The Widower | |
| C. Mikal Oness | 49 |
In Memoriam | |
| Charles Cantrell | 50 |
Between God And The Deep Black Grave | |
| Carolyn Stoloff | 51 |
Puzzling | |
| Tom McKeown | 52 |
Four-Tiered Birthday Cake | |
| Gayle Elen Harvey | 53 |
Mistaken Identity | |
| Judy Kronenfeld | 54 |
A-Tisket, A-Tasket | |
| Alexander Long | 55 |
So What | |
| Paul Dunlap | 56 |
Alloy and Flame | |
| Robin Jacobson | 58 |
At the Market | |
| Calder Lowe | 59 |
Canary | |
| Mary-Marcia Casoly | 60 |
Quixote and Sancho Take On the Bay Bridge, 1935 |
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| Carolyn Stoloff | 62 |
Not By Appointment | |
| James Doyle | 63 |
Corset | |
| Wendy Taylor Carlisle | 64 |
The Redhead Conjures Him Up | |
| Linda Ramey | 65 |
Sweethearts | |
| Johnny Cordova | 67 |
First Snow | |
68 |
Your Wife | ||
| Mary Lou Taylor | 69 |
Aubade | |
| Carolyn Stoloff | 70 |
This Close | |
| Dan Phillips | 71 |
Anahola Beach Lessons | |
| Mark Sanders | 72 |
Prayer Before Sleep | |
| Barbara Hendryson | 73 |
What You Long To Return To | |
74 |
Poem Written between Midnight and Morning | ||
| Mark DeFoe | 75 |
Drivers | |
| Mark Sanders | 76 |
On Seeing the Ex-wife | |
| Richard Kostelanetz | 77 |
Excerpts from (Complete) Shorter Stories (1998) |
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| Phyllis Williams | 78 |
Sisterhood | |
| Karen Snow | 79 |
A New Man | |
| Jon Cone | 81 |
Analects | |
| Glenn Sheldon | 83 |
Last Suitcase Out of Sodom | |
| Paul B. Roth | 84 |
Getting Out Of Town For The Weekend | |
| Theresa Whitehill | 85 |
Tenderness | |
| Aurelie Sheehan | 86 |
Postcards from the Land of the Dead | |
| Roberto Fernández Retamar | 87 |
The Names | |
88 |
Los Nombres | ||
| Mark DeFoe | 89 |
Nearby, Traveler | |
| Walter Bargen | 90 |
USA | |
91 |
The Price of Palm Trees | ||
93 |
Sleepless Sumerians | ||
| Dancing Bear | 94 |
Black Ice | |
| Jean Emerson | 97 |
So Long Ago a Pain | |
| Phyllis Stowell | 99 |
Comforter | |
| Elaine F. Kahn | 100 |
My Mother's Flapper Cocktail Dress | |
| Michael J. Vaughn | 101 |
Genevieve | |
| Carolyn Wing Greenlee | 103 |
Two Widows | |
| Carolyn Grassi | 104 |
Flying Home From Hoboken, New Jersey | |
| Carolyn Grassi | 106 |
Sunrise, East Windham, New York | |
| Cory-Ellen Nadel | 107 |
The Kingdom of Garden | |
| Antony Oldknow | 109 |
Christ In The House Of His Parents | |
| James Doyle | 110 |
Growing Up In Nazareth | |
| Edward Myers | 112 |
The Temptations of St. Anthony's Brother | |
| Antony Oldknow | 115 |
The Annunciation | |
| Wendy Norris | 116 |
Invocation To The Basketball God | |
| Wendy Taylor Carlisle | 117 |
Rocket Science | |
| Karen Hammond | 118 |
Last Blood | |
| Theresa Whitehill | 119 |
Menstruation | |
| Kathie Isaac-Luke | 120 |
Blame Aphrodite | |
| Linda Carney | 121 |
Silent Wheel | |
| Grace Cavalieri | 122 |
Judy and Me | |
123 |
To His House | ||
| Pamela McClure | 124 |
My Sisters | |
| Sheryl Slocum | 125 |
Crossing the Red Sea | |
| Matthew Lucero | 126 |
The Poverty of Two Dollar Bills | |
| Karen Hammond | 128 |
Conversation with Gregory | |
| Elizabeth Eastmond | 129 |
Toilet Papering at 12 a.m. | |
| Charlotte Muse | 130 |
Advice To My Son | |
| Robert S. Pesich | 131 |
Chess Prayer | |
| Len Anderson | 132 |
Sonance | |
| Joanne Lowery | 133 |
Kite | |
134 |
Otherwise | ||
| Mary Ann Samyn | 135 |
Alice, Falling | |
136 |
Thoroughly Modern Alice | ||
137 |
Cracked Alice | ||
138 |
Alice, Walking | ||
| Dixie Salazar | 139 |
The Lost Dolls | |
| Juanita Beresford-Redman | 140 |
To Search for the Purple Fish | |
143 |
Women At Risk | ||
| CJ Muchhala | 144 |
Sisters | |
| Parthenia Hicks | 145 |
Fire | |
| Wendy Taylor Carlisle | 150 |
Notes from a Childhood II | |
| Joe Miller | 151 |
Tiny Black Wings | |
| N. Jesse Ryan | 153 |
Living with Uncle Chubb | |
| Eve Robillard | 154 |
What Storytellers Dream About | |
| Jean Gillespie | 155 |
Geogianna Mapleton | |
| Kathleen Willard | 157 |
In Summer | |
| Paul Crine | 158 |
That Is The Question | |
| Gail Ford | 159 |
Don't Ask | |
160 |
Family Plots | ||
| Joan Morse Vistain | 162 |
The Lioness | |
| Esther Kamkar | 163 |
Something Like Homesickness | |
| Laura Callahan | 164 |
The Unmother | |
| Tony Gloeggler | 165 |
Your Kind Of Life | |
| Cynthia W. Gentry | 168 |
Heart, Cataract, Plate | |
| Linda Ramey | 170 |
My Father's Lunchbox | |
| James Bluewolf | 171 |
We Don't Say Good-bye | |
| Jim Lyle | 172 |
Twister | |
| Mary Lou Taylor | 174 |
Taking Hollywood by Storm | |
| Bernice Rendrick | 175 |
All Aboard For California, 1941 | |
| Joel Long | 176 |
Harvest at Fremont Orchards | |
| Matthew Lucero | 177 |
After A Long Walk | |
| Marge Piercy | 178 |
Frozen as far as the eye can see | |
| Eran Williams | 179 |
Alternative Energy | |
| Stephen Kessler | 183 |
With Jack in Seattle | |
| Mary-Marcia Casoly | 191 |
Uncle Irving Keeps His Jar of Buffalo Heads | |
| James Bluewolf | 192 |
Thumbs | |
| Mark Mirick | 194 |
The Cyborg's Prayer | |
| Cynthia Tedesco | 195 |
Nursery Rhyme 2000 | |
| Eve Sutton | 196 |
Pilgrims, 2085 | |
| J. T. Cavender | 197 |
A Review of The Silk at Her Throat | |
| Alexander Long | 203 |
A Review of Burned Kilim | |
212 |
Contributors | ||
| Matthew Goodsell | Cover Art Memory ©2001 | ||