Table of Contents

Preface

Scripts

#1 Reunion
#2 Joe
#3 The Red Balloon
#4 Burke
#5 Aztec Two-Step
#6 Code
#7 The Score
#8 Frankie
#9 Prayer Rope
#10 Kenny
#11 Stories
#12 Sylvester
#13 SOS
#14 Nat
#15 Greystone
#16 Mr. Pople
#17 The Lake
#18 Staircase
#19 Breach
#20 The Dock
#21 Combs Hollow
#22 9/11/01
#23 9/11/11
#24 Aesthetic Wobble #1
#25 The Unwritten
#26 Skippy
#27 Fodder
#28 Celebrity
#29 Yasnaya Polyana
#30 Afterward
#31 The Fountain House
#32 At the Point of Death
#33 The Bridge
#34 Carlyle
#35 Conference
#36 Aesthetic Wobble #2
#37 Fairy Tale
#38 The Evangelicals
#39 After the Workshop
#40 Luxury of Circumstance
#41 From the Vineyard to the Sea
#42 Forensics
#43 Afghanistan
#44 The Scope
#45 Tactics
#46 Aesthetic Wobble #3
#47 Proverbs
#48 Aesthetic Wobble #4
#49 A Note on Aesthetics
#50 On Time
#51 Holding Action
#52 The Revolution Needs a Song
#53 Tamara Khanum (1906-1991)
#54 Jack
#55 The List
#56 Aesthetic Wobble #5
#57 Angkor
#58 Thermal
#59 Utopia
#60 Bled
?
Postscripts

#61 Meteor
#62 Brown vs. Board of Education
#63 Relativity
#64 Radioactivity
#65 Clive Wearing, March, 1985
#66 Hiatus
#67 V
#68 Haze
#69 Kitty Hawk
#70 Petty
#71 Nu descendant un escalier n° 2), 1912
#72 The Names
#73 Brain
#74 The Hat
#75 The Performance
#76 Critical Point
#77 White Lines
#78 Heat Lightning
#79 The Act
#80 Feverish
#81 Soldier Aristotle
#82 The Headless Horseman
#83 Dolly
#84 Effluent
#85 Russell
#86 The Dolly Zoom
#87 Guff and Jive
#88 Medicine
#89 Happiness
#90 The Ladder?

A lively correspondence embodying a wide range of experiences and imagination between two of our legendary poets Bell & Merrill.

Marvin Bell: Marvin Bell’s works include collaborations with musicians, composers, dancers, poets and photographers--among them, poet William Stafford and photographer Nathan Lyons--and volumes of an original poetic form most recently collected in Vertigo: The Living Dead Man Poems.

Christopher Merrill's recent books include Boat (poetry), Necessities (prose poetry), and The Tree of the Doves: Ceremony, Expedition, War ( nonfiction). His work has been translated into over thirty languages, and as the director of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa he has conducted cultural diplomacy missions in more than fifty countries.