Another "general" issue for these generalissimo times (third in a series of three). This one features a special vernal nonfiction bonanza: a large excerpt of Australian poet Robert Adamson's memoir, an essay by Michael Palmer on "Poetry and Contingency," review-essays of William Carlos Williams, Randolph Healy, and Mark McMorris, reviews of Jennifer Moxley, John Ashbery, Harryette Mullen, David Shapiro, Jose Saramago (and others), and a jaunty range of notes and comments that includes a dispatch from Krakow, a note on the dearly departed Stan Brakhage, and a survey of recent poetry readings in Chicago.

And that's just the nonfiction! The issue also includes poems by Camille Guthrie, Michael Palmer, Ed Roberson, Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, Karen Volkman (and others), fiction by Viet Dinh and Gerhard Roth, and art by Anna Zemankova (on the cover and in an opulent centerfold).