Spring 1999
Table of Contents
Special Feature
Finding Eudora
Golden Apples
Learning from Miss Welty
The Doll
The Essential Clue and Connection
Tough as Fire
Essays
Desert River, Different River
On Leaving Florida
Twilight of the Apple Growers
Fiction
In the Valley of the Shadow
Succor
The Librarian’s Farewell
Poetry
At the Border
Belleek
Charlie Fox
Credibility
Grief, for a long time sound,
History of Rain
If night and day behaved like doors
On Playing the Hoedown “Sally Goodin”
Period
Poets’ Corner
Poppies
Preaching the Subjunctive
The Pornographer’s Dream
The Two
Transplanting
Art
But Is It a Basket?
Reviews
About Writers: Hack, Serious, and Academic (on Hired Pens: Professional Writers in America’s Golden Age of Print by Ronald Weber; A Dangerous Profession: A Book about the Writing Life by Frederick Busch; and Writing in Disguise: Academic Life in Subordination by Terry Caesar)
Mutability Cantos (on Mrs. Dumpty by Chana Bloch; The Uses of Adversity by Ronald Wallace; Green Sees Things in Waves by August Kleinzahler; Babylon in a Jar: New Poems by Andrew Hudgins; and Glare by A. R. Ammons)
on Avatars of the Word: From Papyrus to Cyberspace by James J. O’Donnell
on Blank Fictions: Consumerism, Culture and the Contemporary American Novel by James Annesley
on O My Land, My Friends: The Selected Letters of Hart Crane, edited by Langdon Hammer and Brom Weber
on The American Prose Poem: Poetic Form and the Boundaries of Genre by Michel Delville
on Twentieth-Century Southern Literature by J. A. Bryant Jr.
Worlds and Seas: Poets on Poetry (on The Work of Poetry by John Hollander; Some Necessary Angels: Essays on Writing and Politics by Jay Parini; and The Catbird’s Song: Prose Pieces 1963-1995 by Richard Wilbur)
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