From Spring 1985 Explore This Issue on When Words Lose Their Meaning: Constitutions and Reconstitutions of Language, Character, and Community by James Boyd White By R. B. Kershner From the Spring 1985 Issue ← “My Fingers Clawing the Air”: Versions of Paradise in Contemporary American Poetry (on Deep Within the Ravine by Philip Schultz; Paradise Poems by Gerald Stern; Drawn by Stones, by Earth, by Things that Have Been in the Fire by Marvin Bell; Traffic, With Ghosts by Rosanne Coggeshall; & Selected Poems by Philip Levine) → on Dust Bowl Descent by Bill Ganzel