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1997
Spring 1997
Table of Contents
Essays
A Habit of Distrust
Comfort Me with Apples
The Expense of Spirit in Postmodern Times: Between Nihilism and Belief
The Music of Silence
The Power of Stories
Fiction
Light in the Crossing
Old Growth
The Ninth, in E Minor
The White Beast
Poetry
Entries and Divagations
Family Life
Home Fire
Late Evening, Ash Wednesday
Old Gus labors alone
Old Whores in Love: A Valentine
She, Being an Artist
Standing Deer
The Brain of the World
The Ruby
When the humans disappoint,
Art
Acute Ambiguity
Reviews
on Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography by Gail Levin
on Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time by Eavan Boland
on Rebels Against the Future: The Luddites and Their War on the Industrial Revolution— Lessons for the Computer Age by Kirkpatrick Sale
on The Dustbin of History by Greil Marcus
Smart [Academic] Jews (on SmartJews: The Construction of the Image of Jewish Superior Intelligence by Sander L. Gilman and People of the Book: Thirty Scholars Reflect on Their Jewish Identity, edited by Jeffrey Rubin-Dorsky and Shelley Fisher Fishkin)
The Contemporary Long Poem: Minding the Kinds (on The Diviners by Robert McDowell; Middens of the Tribe by Daniel Hoffman; Quartet by Angela Ball; & The Descent of Alette by Alice Notley)
The Speed of Memory (on Vertigo: A Memoir by Louise DeSalvo; The Lonely Other: A Woman Watching America by Diana Hume George; and In Search of Susanna by Suzanne L. Bunkers)
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