Spring 1980
Table of Contents
Essays
Infidelity and Fiction: The Discovery of Women’s Subjectivity in “Arabian Nights”
Jabbing the Sore Spot: “Alienism” and Its Cultural Role
Midwestern Writers and the Myth of the Search
Remembering Allen Tate
Science and Romanticism
The Two Stages of an Artist’s Life
Translation and Creation in the Film: Truffauft’s “The Wild Child”
Fiction
Forby and the Mayan Maidens
The Bird Watcher
The Idiocy of Rural Life
Poetry
“Chew Mail Pouch”
Ballad of Your Puzzlement
Because We Are Not Taken Seriously
Earthsleep
Gravity
In Random Fields of Impulse and Repose
In Scorching Time
Insomniad
Landscape of Domestic Life
Lying Out in the Rain
The Harbor
The Labor Camp
This Day After Yesterday
Wheel in the Sky
Widow Under a New Moon
Art
Illustrations for The Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde
Reviews
An End to Criticism? (on The Republic Of Letters: A History of Postwar American Literary Opinion by Grant Webster)
And To Make a Long Story Short (on The Best American Short Stories 1978 by Ted Solotaroff; The Women in the Mirror by Pat Carr; Lambing Out and Other Stories by Mary Clearman; Things About to Disappear by Allen Wier; & Who Wrote the Book of Love? by Thomas Färber)
on Cannibals and Missionaries by Mary McCarthy
on The Homosexual Tradition in American Poetry by Robert K. Martin
on Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner by Joseph Blotner
on Waste. Book I The Town Scold; Book II: Transparencies; & Book III: Deas’s Good Company by Judith Johnson Sherwin, Margaret Lampe
Scrawny Cries, Barbaric Yawps (on The American Quest for a Supreme Fiction: Whitman’s Legacy in the Personal Epic by James E. Miller Jr.; & Emerson and the Orphic Poet in America by R. A. Yoder)
The Intellectual as Southerner or the Southerner as Intellectual? (on The Idea of the American South, 1920-1941 by Michael O’Brien; & Such As Us: Southern Voices of the Thirties by Tom E. Terrill, Jerrold Hirsch)
The Sincere, the Mythic, the Playful: Forms of Voice in Current Poetry (on 7 Years From Somewhere by Philip Levine; Ashes: Poems New and Old by Philip Levine; Long Island Light: Poems & A Memoir by William Heyen; Goshawk, Antelope by Dave Smith; & The City of the Olesha Fruit by Norman Dubie)
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