Fall 1979
Table of Contents
Essays
from The Death of Love: A Satanic Essay in Möbius Form
American Theater Watch, 1978-1979
Noburo Fujiwara, Haiku Poet
Romance Without Women: The Sterile Fiction of the American West
Self-Consciousness and the Modernist Temper
The Child in the Street
Fiction
A Portrait of Elmer
The Editor of A
The Last Abandonment
Poetry
A Harvest
A Man’s Vocation Is Nobody’s Business
Among Blackberries
Another October in Prison
Light Sips on Nothingness
Mater Dolorosa
Old Map of Barnstable County
Physical Pleasures
Short Treatise on the Hand
The Fourth Dimension
The General Mule Poems: A Selection
The Purple Light
The Sense of Sin
The Three Towns
The Wish to Be Picked Clean
The Woman Who Is Like a Pepper & Lewis Hine’s Photographs of the Empire State
Art
Documenting the Deep South: William E. Wilson, Photographer
Reviews
“Delmore, Delmore” (on Delmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet by James Atlas; & Last and Lost Poems of Delmore Schwartz by Robert Phillips)
Knowledge, Belief, and Bubblegum (on Endurance: AN Antarctic Idyll and Going Under by Donald Finkel; A Circus Of Needs by Stephen Dunn; Standing Watch by Christopher Bursk; Who Shall Be the Sun? by David Wagoner; & Mirabell: Books of Number by James Merrill)
Lionizing the Pussycat (on The Poetry of John Berryman by Gary Q. Arpin; & John Berryman: An Introduction to the Poetry by Joel Conarroe)
on A History of Building Types by Nikolaus Pevsner; Piranesi: Etchings and Drawings by Roseline Bacou; & Piranesi by Jonathan Scott
on A Recognizable Image: William Carlos Williams on Art and Artists by Bram Dijkstra
on American Silent Film by William K. Everson
on Telling Lives: The Biographer’s Art by Leon Edel, Justin Kaplan, Alfred Kazin, Doris Kearns, Theodore Rosengarten, Barbara W. Tuchman, Geoffrey Wolff, Marc Pachter; and Dubin’s Lives by Bernard Malamud
The Joy of Sports Books: A Tout Sheet (on From Ritual to Record: The Nature of Modern Sports by Allen Guttmann; The Big Game: College Sports and American Life by Edwin H. Cady; & Fielder’s Choice: AN Anthology of Baseball Fiction by Jerome Holtzman)
Wild Civility: Nature and Restraint in the Metaphor of the Garden (on The Idea of the Garden in the Renaissance by Terry Comito; Charles Bridgeman and the English Landscape Garden. Studies in Architecture, Vol. 17 by Peter Willis; & The English Landscape Garden by David Jarrett)
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