The Paris Review, Volume 30, Number 109, Winter 1988

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Burroughs contributes “Twilight’s Last Gleaming”, pp. 12-20. This is a variant of the Kells Elvins collaboration, as noted at "Notes on Contributors", p. 154 – "[t]he manuscript does not appear to be the original but a reconstruction from memory at some later point."

Published in Paris, France and New York City by The Paris Review in Winter of 1988.

This copy was formerly in the collection of Lon Stacks, acquired from his estate.

Bibliographic Information:

• Shoaf III.367
• Schottlaender v4.C586
• Raven 19880100PREV.30.109, b15

Contents:

• William Pène du Bois: frontispiece
• Cary Smith: "Did You Know (study)" (cover art)
• Eva Hesse: drawing
• William S. Burroughs: "Twilight's Last Gleamings" (prose)
• Charles Simic:
• "Weather of the Soul" (poetry)
• "Two Dogs" (poetry)
• "These Homemade Dolls Are No Good" (poetry)
• "Windy Evening" (poetry)
• "Heights of Folly" (poetry)
• Tom Stoppard: manuscript page from Hapgood
• Shusha Guppy and Tom Stoppard: "The Art of Theater VII" (interview)
• B. A. St. Andrews: "On Witnessing Open-Heart Surgery" (poetry)
• Jane Hirshfield:
• "The Mesmer" (poetry)
• "The Stone of Heaven" (poetry)
• "Autumn" (poetry)
• Arthur Gold: "1944" (poetry)
• Thomas Bolt: "1971 Pontiac LeMans" (poetry)
• Hiram Moody: "Twister" (prose)
• Harry Matthews: "Condo Auction" (poetry)
• Clayton Eshleman: "The Night Against Its Lit Elastic" (poetry)
• Susan Minot: "The Man Who Would Not Go Away" (prose)
• Robert Gober: "Six Drawings" (drawings)
• Joyce Carol Oates:
• "Make-Up Artist" (poetry)
• "Photography Session" (poetry)
• "Prenatal" (poetry)
• C. D. Wright:
• "Our Dust" (poetry)
• "More Blues and the Abstract Truth" (poetry)
• John Mortimer: manuscript page from Summer's Dream
• Rosemary Herbert and John Mortimer: "The Art of Fiction CVI" (interview)
• Chatherine Bowman:
• "Twins of a Gazelle Which Feed Along the Lilies" (poetry)
• "The Bed" (poetry)
• Hayden Carruth:
• "Absoluteness" (poetry)
• "Instructions" (poetry)
• Bruce Murphy: "Estuary, Sunday Evening" (poetry)
• Ron Hansen: "Sleepless" (prose)

Publishing Information:

• Publisher: Deborah S. Pease
• Editors: George A. Plimpton, Peter Matthiessen, Donald Hall, Robert R. Silvers, Blair Fuller, Maxine Groffsky
• Managing Editor: Jeanne McCulloch
• Senior Editors: James Linville, Jonathan Dee
• Poetry Editor: Patricia Storace
• Art Editor: Richard Marshall
• et al