Fall 1988
Table of Contents
Essays
A Snapping Turtle in June
American Theater Watch, 1987–1988
At the Edge
Fighting Words: Unlearning to Write the Critical Essay
The Pre-Natal Mountain: Vision and Irony in Recent Irish Poetry
Fiction
Here in Time and Not
Out of Place
Until It Comes Closer
Poetry
Between Seasons
Blessed Coming Off Ladders
Every Day There Are New Memos & Academic Subjects
How Shall We Sing the Lord’s Song in a Strange Land? & Heat Lightning in a Time of Drought
In Cedar Grove Cemetery
October 15th
The Earth Is Round
The Faithful
The Sounds of Rain
To Live in Warsaw
Travel Silk
Triage & Joy
Wounds
Reviews
Biography As Comic Opera, As Melodrama, As Legal Fiction (on In Search of J. D. Salinger by Ian Hamilton)
Failure and the Harlem Renaissance (on Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance by Houston A. Baker, Jr. & Color, Sex and Poetry: Three Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance by Gloria T. Hull)
on Ezra Pound: The Solitary Volcano by John Tytell
on Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe by David Herbert Donald
on The Bosom Serpent: Folklore and Popular Art by Harold Schechter
on The Essays of Virginia Woolf. Vol. 1 by Andrew McNeillie
on The Haw Lantern by Seamus Heaney
on The Servant’s Hand: English Fiction from Below by Bruce Robbins
on Tradition Counter Tradition: Love and the Form of Fiction by Joseph Allen Boone
The Achievement of Richard Ellmann (on Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann & Four Dubliners: Oscar Wilde, William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett by Richard Ellmann)
The Work Being Done: Five New Books (on Evening Wind by Robert Mezey; Next by Lucille Clifton; Women Hoping for Rain by David Tillinghast; What We Say to Strangers by Barbara Drake; & Letter at the End of Winter by Don Stap)
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