Spring 1984

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Spring 1984

Table of Contents

Essays

David Selznick’s “Gone With the Wind”: “The Negro Problem”

Feeling

Making Art Strange: A Commentary on Defamiliarization

Mothers, Husbands, and Uncle Tom

On Leaving the World

Sherlock Holmes, Order, and the Late-Victorian Mind

The Fear Of Imitation

Fiction

Rebecca Winwar’s Flanks Had Withered

Wind and Birds and Human Voices

Poetry

A Poem, Nearly Anonymous

A Still Life

Coyote’s Song

Desire

Figures

Luminare

Perennials

Pigs

Ragged Figure

Reasons for Numbers

Sand Hog

Shadows

Stroke

Tapestry

The Fat Lady Travels

The Red Room

The Street of Lilies

Tomorrow in the Desert

Two Kinds of Deliverance

Volunteer Work

Art

European Scenes

Reviews

Harnessing the Horse (on Children in Exile: Poems 1968-1984 by James Fenton; Keeping Company by Gibbons Ruark; Essay on Air by Reg Saner; The House Party by Caroline Knox; & Home by Jim Simmerman)

on Georg Trakl: A Profile by Frank Graziano

on America’s Quest for the Ideal Self: Dissent and Fulfillment in the 60s and 70s by Peter Clecak

on Chapters of Experience: Studies in Modern American Autobiography by Gordon O. Taylor

on Constant Defender by James Tate

on In Praise of What Persists by Stephen Berg

on The Art of French Calotype by André Jammes, Eugenia Parry Janis

on The Forties by Edmund Wilson, Leon Edel

on The Modern Poetic Sequence: The Genius of Modern Poetry by M. L. Rosenthal, Sally M. Gall

The Circle of the Meditative Moment (on Museum by Rita Dove; New and Collected Poems, 1961-1983 by Alan Dugan; Slow Transparency by Rachel Hadas; Midsummer by Derek Walcott; The Other Side of the River by Charles Wright; & Selected and New Poems by Norman Dubie)

The Name, the Things, the Mystery (on The Name of The Rose by Umberto Eco, William Weaver)