GRIST

vol. 1, 2007

The Journal for Writers

Contents

INTERVIEWS

Interview with Hannah Tinti

Interview with Ron Rash

FICTION

Eric Puchner
Body Language

Jerry D. Mathes II
Looking for the Mule

Tom Franklin
Christians

Nick Taylor
Across from the Cathedral

POETRY

        Dennis Sampson
            A Day. What Is It? I Remember Now
            The Streets of Honolulu
            For the Disappearance of the White Gazelle

        Jeff Hardin
            Based on Something You Told Me
            That Year in Oak Ridge
            Palette
            One Morning in Late May
            About that Troubled Childhood We
                    Survived

        William Wright
            Trumpet Creeper Variations II
            Trumpet Creeper Variations IV
            Bluebird
            Ghost Water

        Julia Levine
            Eighteen Days of Fog and Rain
            Lake of Wings
            Argument for Transcendence with Child,
                    Humming
            And to My Answer, Which Is Yes, Which
                    Is No
            At Fourteen

        Jeff Daniel Marion
            Whittler
            The Boys at the Ink Room, International
                    Playing Card & Label Company
            The Man Who Gathered Rocks

        Claire Bateman
            Story of Your Life
            I Frequently Have to Call My Cell Phone
                    in Order to Find It

        John Canaday
            Louis Slotin, Met Lab, Chicago, 1943
            James Nolan, Los Alamos Obstetrician
            Robert Serber, Japan, September 1945

NONFICTION

Elizabeth Gilbert
Planet Eyeball

ESSAYS

Dennis Sampson
Chasing Emily Dickinson Through the Universe

Julia Levine
Beginner’s Mind, Child’s Mind

Bret Anthony Johnston
On Point-of-View

John Canaday
Assembling Critical Assembly

Volume 1 Contributors