Summer 1980
Table of Contents
Essays
Martin Luther and the Art of the Gloss
Photo-Graphy-Synthesis
The Palgrave Version
The United Nations: Option for Survival
Ut Coitus Lectio: The Poet as Lovemaker
Washington Allston and the Aesthetics of Parody
Words and Images: Harmony and Dissonance
Fiction
“from” Wilderness Plots
A Journal for the New Tear (Resolutions, Memos, Whimsies)
Neither the Question nor the Answer
Poetry
A Good Life
A River Running By & Back in the States
Babies
Beginning at the Beginning
Beyond Belief
Compline
Green Tomatoes & Sing and Dance
Hotel Fire: New Orleans
If You Have an Enemy
In the Middle of a Plowed Field, A Rock
On Stage
Protective Colors
Safe in Shade
The Reckoning
Volo Ut Sis
Reviews
Deconstruction as Dogma, or, “Come Back to the Raft Ag’in, Strether Honey!” (on Deconstruction and Criticism by Harold Bloom, Paul de Man, Jacques Derrida, Geoffrey Hartman, J. Hillis Miller)
Missingeria and Literary Health (on The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer; White House Years by Henry Kissinger; Letters by John Barth; It Looked Like For Ever by Mark Harris; Tethered by David Martin; Days by Mary Robison; & The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth)
on Christopher Isherwood: A Critical Biography by Brian Finney; & Isherwood: A Biography by Jonathan Fryer
on Defoe and Fictional Time by Paul K. Alkon; & The World of Defoe by Peter Earle
on The Dream of the Golden Mountains: Remembering the 1930s by Malcolm Cowley
Resemblances and Transformations (on Succession by Mary Swander; Rising and Falling by William Matthews; Twelve Moons by Mary Oliver; The Cry of Oliver Hardy by Michael Heffernan; Sunday by Thomas Lux; Notes from the Castle by Howard Moss; & As We Know by John Ashbury)
Seeing Laughter Steadily and Whole (on Comedy High & Low: An Introduction to the Experience of Comedy by Maurice Charney; & The Last Laugh: Form and Affirmation in the Contemporary American Comic Novel by Ronald Wallace)
Some Manhattan in New England, Some Enchantment in Ohio (on The Best American Short Stories 1979 by Joyce Carol Oates, Shannon Ravenel; Rope Dances by David Porush; The Drum Concerto by Emily Katharine Harris; Da Vinci’s Bicycle by Guy Davenport; Tales from the Blue Stacks by Robert Bernen; Childhood and Other Neighborhoods by Stuart Dybek; Tales of the Ohio Land by Jack Matthews; & “Wilderness Plots” by Scott Sanders)
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