Month: April 2017

Toward a Philosophy of Photography

By James Guimond
From the Winter 1980 Issue
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On the Marshes at Dawn

By David Weiss
From the Winter 1980 Issue
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Snowing, Sometimes

By Stanley Plumly
From the Winter 1980 Issue
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Stanley Plumly (1939–2019) authored ten collections of poems and four works of nonfiction. Elegy Landscape: Constable and Turner and the Intimate Sublime, his most recent book, was published by W. W. Norton in 2018. His many honors and awards include an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Truman Capote Award, and the Paterson Poetry Prize. He was the founding director of the MFA program in creative writing at the University of Maryland, where he had been a professor of English since 1985. Middle Distance, a collection of poems he finished before his death, will be published by W. W. Norton in 2020.

The Rough-barked Cottonwood

By Robert Bly
From the Winter 1980 Issue
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Ballerina

By Joyce Carol Oates
From the Winter 1980 Issue
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Joyce Carol Oates is the author of some one hundred books in multiple genres, including the novel Little Bird of Heaven (2009), the story collection Sourland (2010), and the memoir A Widow’s Story (2011), all from Ecco. The 2010 recipient of the Ivan Sandrof Award for Lifetime Achievement of the National Book Critics Circle, Oates is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University, where she has taught since 1978. Oates’s “Ballerina” appeared in our fortieth-anniversary retrospective (Spring 1986).

Parabolic

By Bin Ramke
From the Winter 1980 Issue
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Immanence

By Robert Penn Warren
From the Winter 1980 Issue
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Robert Penn Warren: Life’s Instancy and the Astrolabe of Joy

By Peter Stitt
From the Winter 1980 Issue
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