Editors: Terri Windling
and Midori Snyder
Book Reviewers: Jamie Bluth,
Kathleen Chen,Elizabeth Genco, and
Helen Pilinovsky
Copy editing: Jamie Bluth
Laughing Earth by Mark Wagner
Mad Hatter and Hare by Iain McCaig
Crows, Vintage postcard
Humor by Mark Wagner
Coyote Photo by Cy La Tour
Pulcinella in Love by Giandominco Tiepolo
Letter from the Editor’s Desk
“Welcome to our Winter Issue, dedicated to Tricksters dark and bright . . .”
The Reading Room: Articles
Tricksters
“It is Trickster’s role to shake things up, to transgress traditional boundaries . . .”
The Owlglass & the Moon of Gold:
Tyll Eulenspiegel & Kim Seon–dal
“It was not long before I began to notice parallels between the Korean and German tales . . .”
The Reading Room: Fiction
Coyote Goes to College
“There was always trouble when Coyote was ignored. . . .”
Uncle Tompa Tales
“As soon as her mother heard the impossible story of Uncle’s trick, she yelled, ‘No! No!.’ . .”
The Writing Room
Ted Hughes and Crow
“Crow comes complete with all the mythological and folk–loric accretions which crows have gathered through their long existence . . .”
The Gallery
Inner Seasons
Traveling the Wilds
Marionettes and Clowns
The Crossroads: Mixed Media
A Chorus of Clowns
“It is easy to imagine Groucho with satyr’s hooves or Harpo in the mask of an ancient Fool. . . .”
The Coffeehouse: Poetry
Yip, Yip, Yip
Why She Howls
Coyote Builds a House
Four Black Birds
The Dancing Manatee
Monkey Posing
The Poet Hare in Mid–Air
Wile E. Coyote’s Lament
Troll
From the Archives:
Trickster Tales
The Secret Alchemy of Dr. Seuss
The Sacred and Profane of
Spanish Carnaval
The Symbolism of Rabbits
and Hares
Coyote
Falling: A Memoir in Nature
Coyote
Coyote and Pele
Coyote Tears
Outfoxing Coyote
Why Coyote Laughs
Coyote and the White Folks
When Raven Sang