Spring 1985
Table of Contents
Essays
The Bosom Serpent: Folklore and Popular Art
The End of Boredom
The Nobel Prize and the Paper Men: The Fixing of William Golding
Writers on Journalists: A Version of Atheism
Fiction
Her Mother’s Daughter
Offerings
Time and Fear and Somehow Love
Poetry
He/She
Mishipasinghan, Lumchipamudana, etc. & By One
Mother / Daughter
Scar
The Immoralities: Drunk All Afternoon
Toil
Torch Songs
Tough End
Van Gogh, “The Potato Eaters”
When My Father
Women at Forty & Family History
Wood Violet & Common Mullein
Reviews
“My Fingers Clawing the Air”: Versions of Paradise in Contemporary American Poetry (on Deep Within the Ravine by Philip Schultz; Paradise Poems by Gerald Stern; Drawn by Stones, by Earth, by Things that Have Been in the Fire by Marvin Bell; Traffic, With Ghosts by Rosanne Coggeshall; & Selected Poems by Philip Levine)
Custom, Birth, Food, Nature: A Perspective on Some Women Poets (on The Nightingale’s Burden: Women Poets and American Culture Before 1900 by Cheryl Walker; An American Triptych: Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, Adrienne Rich by Wendy Martin; To Hold in My Hand: Selected Poems, 1955-1983 by Hilda Morley; Coagulations: New and Selected Poems by Jayne Cortez; The White Wave by Kate Daniels; In the Mother Tongue by Catherine Anderson; Deer in the Haystacks by Dixie Partridge; Deception Pass by Sue Standing; Natural Affinities by Erica Funkhouser; All That Autumn by Eileen Silver-Lillywhite; Hours by Frances Mayes; & Talking Soft Dutch by Linda McCarriston)
Interpreted Lives (on The Life of Jane Austen by John Halperin & James Boswell: The Later Years, 1769-1795 by Frank Brady)
on Diane Arbus: A Biography by Patricia Bosworth
on Dust Bowl Descent by Bill Ganzel
on Hemingway in Cuba by Norberto Fuentes
on History of My Heart by Robert Pinsky
on How Far She Went by Mary Hood
on Plath’s Incarnations: Woman and the Creative Process by Lynda K. Bundtzen
on The Transitive Vampire: A Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed by Karen Elizabeth Gordon
on Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry by Robert Hass
on When Words Lose Their Meaning: Constitutions and Reconstitutions of Language, Character, and Community by James Boyd White
1985
