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)
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