Gulf Coast, Volume 5, Number 2, Spring/Summer 1993

"Avarice" from William S. Burroughs' The Seven Deadly Sins is on both front and back covers of this journal.

Published in Houston, TX. by the University of Houston Creative Writing Department in Spring of 1993.

Bibliographic Information: 

• Not in Shoaf
• Not in Schottlaender (v4)
• Raven 19930400GCOA.5.2

Contents: 

• Amy Hempel, Mary Robison: "A Conversation" (interview)
• Walter Pavlich: "Sadness" (poetry)
• Jon Davis: "Marriage" (poetry)
• E. G. Burrows: "Elsinore" (poetry)
• Susan Wood: 
• "Harmonica" (poetry)
• "Luck" (poetry)
• "Astral Bodies" (poetry)
• Brendan Galvin: 
• "Half Moon Fort (Barbados)" (poetry)
• "Above It All" (poetry)
• Bruce Taylor: "Counting" (poetry)
• Lisa Beskin: "Loneliness in Summer" (poetry)
• Chris Semansky: "André Breton Works the Crisis Prevention Hot Line" (poetry)
• Allison Smythe: "Finite Habitation" (poetry)
• Leslie Norris: 
• "Ithaca" (poetry)
• "In the City" (poetry)
• Kevin Pilkington: "View from the Porch" (poetry)
• David Ignatow: "Sandia Mountain Range, New Mexico" (poetry)
• Heather Sellers: "Grind" (poetry)
• William Cobb: "Three Feet of Water" (prose)
• Lucia Nevai: "The Good Luck Cafe" (prose)
• Alvaro Cardona-Hine: "Portrait at Teatime" (prose)
• Richard Howard: "Fag Ends" (prose)
• George Williams: "The Road to Damascus" (prose)
• Elizabeth Starr: "His Wife's Indians" (prose)
• Andrew Markham: "Maws" (prose)
• Lance Olsen: "Live Sex: Microwaves: London" (prose)
• Edwin Gallagher: "One Room, Many Voices" (essay)
• Dana Gioia: "Hearing from Poetry's Audience" (essay)
• Ann Beattie: "Signs in the Balance" (essay)
• Lorenzo Thomas, Heather Korb: "'Not Enough Sense to Ask for Money': Learning the Blues in Houston, Texas" (essay)
• Julio Cortázar: "Strictly Nonprofessional" (essay)
• Michael Charles: "Revelation" (art)
• Ron Smith: untitled (art)
• Ike E. Morgan: "George Washington Series" (art)
• David McGee: "Her Daughters Mournfully Injesture Dance in the Elysian Tradition" (art)
• Annette Lawrence:
• "Drawing Blood" (art)
• "One Love" (art)
• James Bettison: 
• "Prologue to Love (Gurl Dog)" (art)
• "Blind Date" (art)
• Lincoln Perry:
• "China Story" (art)
• "Balance" (art)
• "Götterdämmerung" (art)
• David Levinthal: art
• Charlie Sartwelle:
• "The Black Madonna" (art)
• "Our Lady of the Bayou: Sleeping Beauty" (art)
• "Our Lady of the Bayou: Black Madonna" (art)
• Mark O'Connor, Randall Watson: "Collaborative Art Project: Original Works"
• Amy Blakemore: "Boy and Ball" (art)
• guest artist: "Boy and Ball (Altered Print)" (art)
• William S. Burroughs: "Avarice", from The Seven Deadly Sins (art/prose)

Publishing Information: 

• Managing Editors: Mark O'Connor, Randall Watson
• Fiction Editors: A. Quinlan, Amy Storrow
• Poetry Editor: Lance Larsen
• Art Editor: A. Quinlan
• Book Design: Jim Tiebout