Summer 1981
Table of Contents
Essays
“Waldo Emerson”: Preface to a Biography
American Autobiography: The Western Tradition
Another Biography? For God’s Sake, Why?
Memory, Desire, and the Need for Biography: The Case of Emily Dickinson
Roland Barthes, Autobiography, and the End of Writing
Voices from the Veil: Black American Autobiography
Fiction
Lovely Things That Should Not Pass Away
Parker “Lacrimans”
Poetry
A Short History of Barbed Wire
April Fool
Flood
Haying
Lives in One Lifetime
Of Butterflies
On Your Astonishment
Shadowlawn
Song Beginning in Summer
Songs and Sonnets
Southpaw
The Art of the Circle
The Gardens
The Name of God Is Simple
To Welcome Us Back
Trying to Separate
What the Trees Suffer
Wheat
Art
Before the Waters Come: Photographs
Reviews
Walter Lippmann and the American Century by Ronald Steel
Autobiography: Act or Artifact?(on Autobiography: Essays Theoretical and Critical by James Olney;The Art of Life: Studies in American Autobiographical Literature by Mutlu Konuk Blasing; American Autobiography: The Prophetic Mode by G. Thomas Couser; The Forms of Autobiography: Episodes in the History of a Literary Genre by William C. Spengemann;& Autobiographical Acts: The Changing Situation of a Literary Genre by Elizabeth Bruss)
on Henry Adams by R. P. Blackmur, Veronica A. Makowsky
on Introducing David Jones by John Matthias
on Letters to Christopher: Stephen Spender’s Letters to Christopher Isherwood, 1929-1939 by Lee Bartlett
on The Art of Maurice Sendak by Selma G. Lanes
on Unsettling Europe by Jane Kramer
Walter Abish and the Surfaces of Life (on How German Is It by Walter Abish)
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