Paintings by Algerian artist Houria Niati.

Paintings by French Post-Impressionist Henri Ottmann.

The Guild
By SHARON OLDS

Every night, as my grandfather sat
in the darkened room in front of the fire, the bourbon like fire in his hand, his eye glittering meaninglessly in the light
from the flames, his glass eye baleful and stony,
a young man sat with him
in silence and darkness, a college boy with white skin, unlined, a narrow
beautiful face, a broad domed
forehead, and eyes amber as the resin from
trees too young to be cut yet.
This was his son, who sat, an apprentice, night after night, his glass of coals
next to the old man's glass of coals,
and he drank when the old man drank, and he learned
the craft of oblivion-that young man
not yet cruel, his hair dark as the
soil that feeds the tree's roots,
that son who would come to be in his turn better at this than the teacher, the apprentice
who would pass his master in cruelty and oblivion, drinking steadily by the flames in the blackness,
that young man my father.

Portraits of actors by Yamamura Toyonari.

Prints by Jamaican artist Albert Huie.

Works by American illustrator Virginia Frances Sterrett.