Nonfiction

Spring ’85 - Fall ’08
(Issue Nos. 1 - 83)


Abinader, Elmaz, Just off Main Street, 67
Adisa, Opal Palmer, Lying in the Tall Grasses, 52, 57
Alexander, Will, The Whirling King, 51
Allen, Paula Gunn, My Lebanon, 8
Allison, Dorothy, Gun Crazy, 38
Anderson, Jennifer, Living on Holy Ground, 49
Anonymous, 100th Boyfriend, 10


Bailey, Bryan, The Warrior Magazine, 49
Ballantyne, Sheila, Thank You, 46
Ballantyne, Sheila, Leonard Wolf, 57
Bamman, Mattie John, Nine Days, 81
Bangs, Carol Jane, Island Dream, 61
Barbato, John, Slamming, 52
Barich, Bill, from The California Notebooks, 22
Barrington, Judith, Beds, 51
Barrington, Judith, Too Butch for Me, 56
Bentley, Kevin, Moon of Monakoora, 52
Berkson, Bill, Poetry & Painting, 23
Berkson, Bill, A Beginner, 55, 57
Billman, Jon, Infernos to Battle, 57
Blaisdell, Sara, The Fast Track to Obesity and Perdition, 73
Bockstoce, John, Cruise of CSS Shenandoah, 6
Bolger, Daniel, Dragons at War, 6
Booth, Wayne, Reader, 15
Bouldrey, Brian, Pilgrim’s Regress, 50
Brandes, Valerie, Sea Changes, 53
Braudy, Leo, Frenzy of Renown, 7
Brandy, Leo, Renewing the Edge, 18
Bronson, Po, The Grotto, 66
Bronson, Po, The Man Who Speaks Spanish with His Feet, 81
Browning, Peter, Place Names of Sierra Nevada, 4
Bullis, Douglas, California Fashion Designers, 11
Burciaga, Jose Antonio, Pendejismo, 3
Burciaga, José Antonio, Todo lo Bueno..., 45
Buzbee, Lewis, The Pleasures of the Bookstores, 67


Cherkovski, Neeli, Whitman’s Wild Children, 15
Chestnut, Glen, Date Due, 58
Chin, Justin, What I Hid & What Was Found, 57
Clark, David, Caring, 41
Colby, Benjamin E., Tea Ceremony, 26
Conrad, Barnaby, III, Drop-Dead Architects, 51
Cowdrey, Cynthia, Pine Box, 69
Coyote, Peter, Sleeping Where I Fall, 16
Coyote, Peter, Carla’s Story, 30
Creeley, Robert, Two Letters, 8
Croutier, Alev Lytle,from Harem, 17


Daniel, John M., True Love, Skull & Bones, 37
Darling, Lowell & Sophie, Withdrawal with Drawing, 33
Darznik, Jasmin, Homecoming, 77
Davenport, Guy, Every Force Evolves a Form, 9
Davenport, Guy, Herakleitos, 22
Davis, Barbara A., Edward S. Curtis, 3
d’Azevedo, Warren L., Feathers, 2
Dhompa, Tsering Wangpo, Lond Days Make Secrets Escape, 65
Diaz, Craig L., The Napa Diary, 29
Diri, Phyl, 1974, 61
Duc, Nguyen Qui,ftom Where the Ashes Are, 36
Duncan, Davidjames, Lighthouse, 31
Dundes, Alan, Arse Longa, Vita Brevis, 20
Dundes, Alan, Jock to joke: OJ. Simpson, 40
Dundes, Alan, The Clinton Joke, 55
Duskin, Alvin, The Charcoal Factory, 36


Easwaran, Eknath, Servants of God, 1
Evans, Larry, Four Visits, 80


Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, Happening in North Beach, 21
Fisher, M.F.K., Miss Toklas, 1
Flanner, Hildegarde, Bamboo, 2
Fraser, Joelle, Karyn’s Murder, 53
Freeman, Dale, Dora, 75
Freiwald, Joshua, Secluded Garden, 11
Friedlander, Richard, To the Holy Mountain—and Back, 74
Fuller, Blair, New Ocean, 4
Fuller, Blair, Still It Makes Me Laugh, 12
Fuller, Blair, Dubious Quest, 57
Fuller, Blair, The Poison of Non-Fulfillment, 50
Fuller, Blair, Where I Came to Live, 67


Geertz, Clifford, Being Here, 12
Gilbert, Ed, Letter From Venice, 63
Girard, Rene, Ritual Killing 9
Glover, Laurie, grounds For Sanity, 69
Gomez, Jewell, Somebody Almost..., 57
Gómez-Peña, Guillermo, Postcards from a Bohemian Theme Park, 83
Goodrich, Chris, Reading Groups, 7
Grant, J. B., Baffled and Snakebit, 55
Grossinger, Richard, New Moon, 10
Gutierrez, Stephen D., My Good Gray Morning, 55
Gutierrez, Stephen D., The Margin King, 83


Haines, John, Mudding Up, 15
Hamill, Sam, The Degradation of Money, 21
Hanson, Victor Davis, The Valley, 47/48
Hamer, Forrest, The Visitor, 57
Harjo, Joy, The Flying Man, 58
Harris, David, My Best Friend, 2
Hemmingson, Michael, Smells Like Fresh Ink, 81
Herndon, James, Chanh, 2
Higa, Jeffrey, The Icebox Stay Coming, 62
Higa, Jeffrey, Wooing Elizabeth, 82
Hill, Eleanore, Family Secret, 2
Hochschild, Adam, Finding the Trap Door, 45, 57
Hoque, Abeer, Ironed Blue Sky, 88°, 71
Huerta, Alvaro, La Pistola, 82


In. S. Omnia, That Night in Zyzzyzzywa, 8


Jans, Nick, What They Leave Behind, 35
Johns, Bud, What is This Madness, 3
Jones, Alice, Hello/Goodbye, 78
Jones, Wes, Jeanerette, 31
Jordan, L.T., Balls of Malta, 13
Judd, Bob, Cora & Clarence & Cars, 80


Kaman, John, Un E-mail de Paris, 45
Kamani, Ginu, Putting Aside My Fears, 49, 57
Kelso, David, Consuming Art, 56
Kurtz, Glenn, Practicing, 62


Lau, Carolyn, Maloko Puuwai E. Laka, 30
Laux, Dorianne, Girl Poet, 57
Leslie, Jacques, Back from the War, 1
Levine, Philip, The Shadow of the Big Madrone, 34-36
Levine, Philip, The Shadow of the Big Madrone, 57
Lewis, Jack, Matriculation, 75
Liu, Sarah, Bones ofJade, Soul of Ice, 25
Louie, David Wong, Saddle, 57
Lydon, Sandy, Chinese Gold, 3


Mack, Dorothy Blackcrow, Legacy of the Ancestors, 37
Mack, Dorothy Blackcrow, Dog Killers, 56
Mandel, William J., Some Belorussians, 1
Mandel, William, Mother Sang, I Sang, 46
Marcus, David, My Names, 69
Marshall, Jack, From Baghdad to Brooklyn, 71
Martin, Toni: Still Water, 64
Martinez, Yvonne, Primero de Mayo, 50
Maxwell, Susan, The Lineaments of the Tool, 54
Maynard, Isabelle, Hot Property, 56
McCunn, Ruthanne Lum, Sole Survivor, 3
McClure, Michael, Why Do I Love Allen? 51
McHugh, Heather, A Genuine Article, 34
Millman, Lawrence, Kayak Full of Ghosts, 11
Milosz, Czeslaw, Time of Self-Education, 1
Mirosevich, Toni, Digging, 56
Mitchell, Stephen, from Parables and Portraits, 19
Mohr, Bill, The Geography of Reading, 45
Morris, Holly, Hornewaters of the Mind, 39
Moriarty, Laura, Outlaws, Lone Wolves, and Made Poets, 83
Morse, Margaret, Fresh Failures, 39
Mungo, Raymond, A Married Man, 70
Mycue, Edward, Group Portrait, 82


Nafal, Nuha, Palestine, 10
Najarian, Pete, Daughters of Memory, 5
Niditch, Susan, Underdogs and Tricksters, 10
Noyes, Henry, China Books Begins, 19


Ogden, Annegret, H.H. Bancroft, 21
O'Heir, Diana, Burn, Bridge, Burn, 67
Olson, Charles, Two Letters, 8
Orgel, Stephen, The Afterlife of Lady Macbeth, 81
OwIfeather, M., Grandmother Moon, 10


Parker, Susan: Tumbling Into Writing, 64
Pell, Eve, Deus, Amici, Et Nos, 71
Peters, Robert, Crunching Gravel, 13
Putnam, Alita, A Few Nights in Bishkek, 74


Quinn, Arthur, New France, 7


Rail, Evan, Fuck the Homeless, 50
Reese, Nancy, Cover Letter, 61
Remmerde, Jon, Elk, 62
Rice, Doug, Remains of (a Prayer for) Kathy Acker, 82
Richter, Linda K., Visit Bangladesh, 17
Robertson, James, The Making of Zapata, 33
Rodriguéz, Aleida, Walking, 51, 57
Rodriguez, Richard: South/North, 64
Ronell, Avital, Failure of Man’s Custodianship, 38
Royer, Tina, Minimum Security, 73
Ryan, Kay, Do You Like It?, 54, 57
Ryan, Michael, The Spa Package, 70


Saksnussemm, Kris, Sex & Death at UDub, 62
Sarris, Gregory, All This Family, 80
Saunders, Richard, Armed Journalism, 1
Schenker, Donald, Snapshots, 9
Schiffman, Lisa, Anhui, 40
Schildgen, Brenda Din, Business of Man, 11
Schmidt, J, The Lone and Level Sands, 72
Shere, Lindsey, Violet Candies, 3
Shere, Charles, Three Little Crimes, 49
Shurin, Aaron, Further Under, 29
Shurin, Aaron, Composed, 65
Simon, John Oliver, The Blue..., 53
Sjoholm, Barbara, The Baskets, 66
Snyder, Gary, Exhortations for Baby Tigers, 29
Soares, Kirsten Lee, We Have To Stop Here, 80
Solomon, Barbara Stauffacher, Our Postwar Party, 73
Solomon, Daniel, Re(Building), 30
Solomon, Kenneth H., Appellation, 77
Solis, Octavio, English, My Ally, 54, 57
Soto, Gary, Savings Book, 3
Soto, Gary, Agreeable, 9
Spaid, Sue, On Duty, Work, Joy, Art, 41
Spahr, Juliana, from Passiflora, 77
Strickland, Ron, River Pigs and Cayuses, 1


Taylor, Katherine, Traveling with Mother, 62
Thompson, Joyce, Thang, 40
Tisdale, Sally, Wolves, 47/48, 57


Various, Epiphanies, 77
Villaseñor, Victor E., from Rain of Gold, 26
Vincent, Stephen, January 18, 2003, 67
Vincent, Stephen, Walk, 56
Vincent, Stephen, Walt, 2
Vittitow, Dick, How Cassius Clay... Helped Integrate..., 81


Wallace, David Rains, Arcadia Mechanized, 1
Wallace, David Rains, Green Tunnel, 4
Wallace, David Rains, Softshell, 7
Wallace, David, Rains, The Bones From Gracias, 32
Wallace, David Rains, Advocating Landscape, 53, 57
Wallem, Irma, Made of Lace, 1
Wallem, Irma, How to Live, 9
Watten, Barrett, A Ritual Necklace of Negatives, 19
Webb, Nancy Kay, The Bear, 37
Webster, Brenda, On the Couch, 58
Webster, Brenda, Gina over the Years, 66
Wiley, Peter Booth, Printer’s Ink in My Veins, 57
Wilson, John W., Partners, 2
Wojnicki, Tad, Under The Steinbeck Oak, 69
Wolfe, Michael, Marching to the River, 27
Wolff, Jane, from Delta Primer, 68
Wright, Peter, From the Wings, 66


Yarbrough, Steve, Emma Jean, 47/48
Yu, Bo, Dog, 76



P.O. Box 590069 • San Francisco, CA • 94159-0069

ZYZZYVA home subscribe contact the editor