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
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