Rattapallax 5. (A Journal of Contemporary Literature). 2001

RATTAPALLAX'S TITLE comes from a poem by Wallace Stevens, Frogs Eat Butterflies, Snakes Eat Frogs, Hogs Eat Snakes and Men Eat Hogs, and is an onomatopoeia for the sound of thunder. How do we dare perpetrate a syllable, pen, charcoal or pencil or an image through a lens on an empty page, smudge the pristine face of expectation with unintended and unforseen consequence and declare it beautiful? These writers, photographers and artists did. POETRY Indran Amirthanayagam, Robert James Berry, Eula Biss, Alan Catlin, Jay Chollick, Phillip Corwin, Robert Dunn, Evan Eisman, Rhina P. Espaillat, Charles Fishman, Alice B. Fogel, Arthur Ginsberg, Laura Glenn, Veronica Golos, Paul Grant, Paul Guest, Anthony Hecht, Pud Houstoun, Derek Kannemeyer, Sybil Kollar, Rachel Kubie, Bobbi Lurie, Constance Rowell Mastores, Dierdre McKee, Gertrude Morris, B.Z. Niditch, Stephanos Papadopoulos, Joel Peckham Jr, Louis Phillips, Charles Pierre, Arthur Powers, Ron Price, James S. Proffitt, Jay Rogoff, Jackie Sheeler, Askold Skalsky, Kent Taylor, Susan Terris, Rawdon Tomlinson, David Tucker, Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, Jeanne Wagner, Deborah Warren, Ellen Wehle, Michael T. Young. FICTION Alan Cheuse, Brandi Reissenweber. ART Eduardo Arranz-Bravo, Roland Berger, Edward Boccia, Allen M. Hart, Jane Horton, Keith Long, Arlette Lurie, Abelardo Morell, Richard Morin, Dee Rimbaud, Jorge Vigil.