Fall 1983

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Fall 1983

Table of Contents

Special Feature

Making Poetry a Continuum: Selected Correspondence

Essays

American Theater Watch, 1982–1983

Cooper

Making Poetry a Continuum: Selected Correspondence

Personal Mythos and the New Journalism: Gay Talese’s Fathers and Sons

Teachers, Truants, and the Humanities

The Effortless in Art and Ethics: Meditations on “The Frog King, or Iron Henry”

Fiction

Cowboy Movie

The Compass of the Heart

The Final Proof of Fate and Circumstance

Poetry

“from” Good and Bad

After the Rose

Application

Birthday

Bread

Evening

Farmhouse in Early Fall

Horn

I Arrive in a Small Boat, Alone

Lament, with Flesh and Blood

Mowing the Lawn

Savants

Sheep Delivered by Truckloads

To an Artist Going Blind

Visiting the Cemetery

Waiting for the Storyteller

Where We Are

Why You Climbed Up

Yard Sale

Art

A Mortal Pilgrimage and other incidents from a stressed memory

Reviews

Jewish Tradition and the Individual Talent (on Art & Ardor by Cynthia Ozick)

Louis Simpson’s Best Hour (on People Live Here: Selected Poems 1949-1983 by Louis Simpson; & The Best Hour of the Night by Louis Simpson)

No Longer Is the Story All (on Shiloh and Other Stories by Bobbie Ann Mason; Fire Drills: Stories by Barbara L. Greenberg; A Thousand Pardons by Katinka Loeser)

on Dickens and Women by Michael Slater

on Holding Patterns by Leonard Nathan

on Robert Browning: A Life Within Life by Donald Thomas

on The Businessman in American Literature by Emily Stipes Watts