The Paris Review - Issue 249

Rosmarie Waldrop on the Art of Poetry: “It puzzles me that people say my work is difficult. If you read it, it’s very simple.” Javier Cercas on the Art of Fiction: “Hell, to me, is a literary party.” James Schuyler on Frank O’Hara: “I still can see Frank, standing on that street corner outside a pastry shop, holding a neatly tied-up box of God knows what—éclairs, perhaps.” Prose by Josephine Baker, Caleb Crain, Marlene Morgan, Morgan Thomas, and Fumio Yamamoto. Poetry by Hannah Arendt, Matt Broaddus, Sara Gilmore, Benjamin Krusling, Mark Leidner, James Richardson, and Margaret Ross. Art by Ayé Aton and Ron Veasey, and cover by Sterling Ruby.