Fall 1987
Table of Contents
Essays
American Theater Watch, 1986–1987
Coming Out into the Corridor: Postmodern Fantasies of Pluralism
Culture’s Sleeping Beauty
Fiction
A Hotel on Boardwalk
Experience
Still Life
This Is a Delta
Poetry
21 August 1984
Breaking Silence
Feeding Geese
Fruit of the Tree
In the Kingdom of the Air
Letter to the Cracker Company
Life Raft
Lullabye
Ode on Carbon 14
White Hearts
Reviews
Contemporary British Modernism: The Poetry of Ian Hamilton Finlay, Christopher Middleton, Roy Fisher, Charles Tomlinson, and Geoffrey Hill (on Ian Hamilton Finlay: A Visual Primer By Yves Abrioux by Stephen Bann; III Poems by Christopher Middleton; Two Horse Wagon Going By by Christopher Middleton; A Furnace by Roy Fisher; Collected Poems by Charles Tomlinson; & Collected Poems by Geoffrey Hill)
Liars and Truth-Tellers, Fancy and Plain (on Perennials by Judith Kitchen; The Boat of Quiet Hours by Jane Kenyon; Red Roads by Charlie Smith; Foreseeable Futures by William Matthews; Foraging by David Young; The Gold Cell by Sharon Olds)
on In Visible Light: Photography and the American Writer: 1840-1940 by Carol Shloss; Image and Word: The Interaction of Twentieth-century Photographs and Texts by Jefferson Hunter
on Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women’s Poetry in America by Alicia Ostriker
on The Man Who Owned Vermont by Bret Lott
on The Thanatos Syndrome by Walker Percy
The Great American Book Review (on American Incarnation: The Individual, The Nation, And The Continent by Myra Jehlen; American Ambitions: Selected Essays on Literary And Cultural Themes by Monroe K. Spears; Advertising The American Dream: Making Way For Modernity, 1920-1940 by Roland Marchand; Solomon D. Butcher: Photographing The American Dream by John E. Carter; & American Humor by Arthur Power Dudden)
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