Spring 1987
Table of Contents
Special Feature
Bluegrass Wasteland
Essays
After Yitzl
The Coronation of Realism
Fiction
Bodies At Sea
Don’t Worry About the Kids
Piano Lessons
Poetry
Circe
Enough
Homage
Laments
Paul’s Wholesale Florist
Reviews
Against the Grain: Interviews with Maverick American Publishers by Robert Dana
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)
on Irish Poetry after Joyce by Dillon Johnston
on Song of the Sky: Versions of Native American Songs and Poems by Brian Swann
on The Real West Marginal Way: A Poet’s Autobiography by Richard Hugo, Ripley S. Hugo, Lois Welch, James Welch
on The Rise of the New York Intellectuals: Partisan Review and Its Circle, 1934-1945 by Terry A. Cooney
The Moments that Matter (on Only the Little Bone by David Huddle & And Venus Is Blue by Mary Hood)
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
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