BRICK a literary journal number 57, fall 1997
editor: Linda Spalding contributing editor: Michael Ondaatje assistant editor: Esta Spalding production: Gord Robertson
In This Issue
PAULAUSTER A Book by Pierre Clastres
DAPHNE MARLATT On Mother Talk
ROY KIYOOKA Mother Talk
JORIE GRAHAM On Anne Carson
JOHN D' AGATA An Interview with Anne Carson
ANNE CARSON Virginia Woolf and Thucydides
GORAN SIMIC The Armies in Sarajevo
DAVID STOLL I, Rigoberta MenchU
HARRY MATHEWS 4 The Oulipo Translations
MICHAEL ONDAATJE 7 A Conversation with Edmund White
SIRI HUSTVEDT 10 A Plea for Eros
DAVID THOMSON 13 On Joan Didion 's Democracy
THERESA KISHKAN 14 Women and Bears
JANIS MARTINSON 23 On David Honeyboy Edwards
DAVID HONEYBOY EDWARDS 26 The Life of a Delta Bluesman
SEANVIRGO 31 The Past
Cover: The Last Photograph of Lafcadio Hearn, with Japanese Soldiers, 1904.
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