Spring 1998
Table of Contents
Essays
Distance and Direction
The Good War and the Great Snafu
Watershed: An Excursion in Four Parts
Fiction
B Major
Below the Gospels
Orphan of Love
Poetry
Aqua
Conception
Dancing with Alligators
Fin de siècle
Geese
He Plays Vinyl
Howdy Duncan
Love Is a Twelve-Bar Blues
Mesa View: Blue Sky, Pink Cloud, White Moon
More Rain
My Dream of the Empty Zoo
Retirement & Haycutters
The Corals
Wings
Your Faithful & Obedient Servant & Speculation on Those Who Have Had Affairs with Famous Poets
Art
Exposed: The Performer Backstage
Reviews
Ambiguity Isn’t What It Used to Be—Or Is It? (on Another Language: Selected Poems by Rosmarie Waldrop; Viridian by Paul Hoover; Crown of Weeds by Amy Gerstler; Through One Tear by Edward Nobles; and True North by Stephanie Strickland)
Herman Melville’s Literary Lives (on Melville and His Circle: The Last Years by William B. Dillingham; Melville: A Biography by Laurie Robertson-Lorant; and Herman Melville: A Biography, Volume 1, 1819-1851 by Hershel Parker)
Literary Culture and Its Watchdogs (on The Fateful Question of Culture by Geoffrey H. Hartman; A Feeling for Books: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Class Desire by Janice A. Radway; and Life Sentences: Literary Essays by Joseph Epstein)
on Literature Lost: Social Agendas and the Corruption of the Humanities by John M. Ellis
on Robert Penn Warren: A Biography by Joseph Blotner
The Power of Witness (on Fruits of Sorrow: Framing Our Attention to Suffering by Elizabeth V. Spelman; Vigil by Alan Shapiro; Heaven’s Coast by Mark Doty; and This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death by Harold Brodkey)
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