Spring 84

Spring 1984

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Spring 1984

Table of Contents

Essays

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

By Leonard J. Leff

Feeling

By M. M. Liberman

Making Art Strange: A Commentary on Defamiliarization

By Daniel P. Gunn

Mothers, Husbands, and Uncle Tom

By Stephen Railton

On Leaving the World

By James Gallant

Sherlock Holmes, Order, and the Late-Victorian Mind

By Christopher Clausen

The Fear Of Imitation

By John P. Sisk

Fiction

Rebecca Winwar’s Flanks Had Withered

By Jeff Rackham

Wind and Birds and Human Voices

By Ellen Wilbur

Poetry

A Poem, Nearly Anonymous

By Sanford Pinsker

A Still Life

By Kathy Mangan

Coyote’s Song

By William Dickey

Desire

Figures

Luminare

Perennials

By Judith Kitchen

Pigs

By Andrea Hollander

Ragged Figure

By Daniel Towner

Reasons for Numbers

By Lisel Mueller

Sand Hog

By Charles Edward Eaton

Shadows

By Robley Wilson Jr.

Stroke

Tapestry

By Judith Berke

The Fat Lady Travels

By Cathy Smith Bowers

The Red Room

By Judith Berke

The Street of Lilies

By Marc Selvaggio

Tomorrow in the Desert

By Michael Cadnum

Two Kinds of Deliverance

Volunteer Work

By Sharon Bryan

Art

European Scenes

By David Chorlton

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

By Sanford Pinsker

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

on Constant Defender by James Tate

By Donald Revell

on In Praise of What Persists by Stephen Berg

By Doug Carlson

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

By Charles East

on The Forties by Edmund Wilson, Leon Edel

By Charles C. Nash

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

By William Harmon

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)

By Verlyn Flieger

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