The Paris Review No. 131 Summer 1994

Preview issue no. 131 at theparisreview.org.

“We need poetry, not to regain this intimacy, which is impossible, but to remember that we miss it”: Yves Bonnefoy on the Art of Poetry.

An Art of Fiction interview with Alice Munro.

Umberto Eco explains how to travel with a salmon .

Elizabeth Bishop and May Swenson letters. Stories by Rick Moody and Alice Munro. Poems by Ingeborg Bachmann, Philip Levine, and James Merrill.