From Winter 1989 Explore This Issue on Poetry and Ambition: Essays, 1982-88 by Donald Hall By Tom Hansen From the Winter 1989 Issue ← Stalking the Barbaric Yawp (on Collected Poems by Louis Simpson; Wild Dreams Of A New Beginning by Lawrence Ferlinghetti; Selected Poems: 1938-1988 by Thomas McGrath; Echoes: Poems Left Behind by John Ciardi; & Selected Poems by W. S. Merwin) → on The Pleasures of Reading in an Ideological Age by Robert Alter