Spring 1987

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Spring 1987

Table of Contents

Special Feature

Bluegrass Wasteland

By T. R. Hummer

Essays

After Yitzl

By Albert Goldbarth

The Coronation of Realism

By George Watson

Fiction

Bodies At Sea

Don’t Worry About the Kids

By Jay Neugeboren

Piano Lessons

By William F. Van Wert

Poetry

Circe

By Linda Pastan

Enough

By Jim Peterson

Homage

By Louise Hardeman Abbot

Laments

By Judson Mitcham

Paul’s Wholesale Florist

By Starkey Flythe Jr.

Reviews

Against the Grain: Interviews with Maverick American Publishers by Robert Dana

By Stanley W. Lindberg

Old Frontiers / New Images (on Portraits and Dreams: Photographs and Stories by Children of the Appalachians by Wendy Ewald; In the American West: 1979-1984 by Richard Avedon; & Rich and Poor by Jim Goldberg)

By James Guimond

on Irish Poetry after Joyce by Dillon Johnston

By R. B. Kershner

on Song of the Sky: Versions of Native American Songs and Poems by Brian Swann

By Anne C. Bromley

on The Real West Marginal Way: A Poet’s Autobiography by Richard Hugo, Ripley S. Hugo, Lois Welch, James Welch

By Stephen Corey

on The Rise of the New York Intellectuals: Partisan Review and Its Circle, 1934-1945 by Terry A. Cooney

By Sanford Pinsker

The Moments that Matter (on Only the Little Bone by David Huddle & And Venus Is Blue by Mary Hood)

By Judith Kitchen

The Whirlpool of Image and Narrative Flow (on Second Language by Lisel Mueller; Sometimes Music Rises by Wayne Dodd; The Happy Man by Donald Hall; Unending Blues by Charles Simic; Living Gloves by Lynn Doyle; & Cemetery Nights by Stephen Dobyns)

Interview

Seeking the Truth in Narrative: An Interview with Shelby Foote

By William C. CarterShelby Foote