From Spring 1979 Explore This Issue Beckett: A Reluctant Sitter (on Samuel Beckett: A Biography by Deirdre Bair By David Hayman From the Spring 1979 Issue ← Prodding America’s Funnybone (on America’s Humor: From Poor Richard to Doonesbury by Walter Blair, Hamlin Hill) → on Poetry in America: Expression and its Values in the Times of Bryant, Whitman, and Pound by Bernard Duffey