Summer 1985
Table of Contents
Essays
A Consuming Passion: Food and “Film Noir”
Sourdoughs, Filibusters, and a One-Eared Mule
The Intentional Alligator
The Seducer and the Seduced
Fiction
Dog Song
Mister Argus
Others
Poetry
About Talking
After the Company Moves Out, History Seeks Its Level
Ante
Keeping Change
Notes for a Prayer in June
Oxford
Preposterous & The Real World
Sometimes We Throw Things in the Car, Fast
The Fault
The Garden of Eden
The Heart as Dog
Treasuring the Snapshot
Wanting Winter
Watching the Boy Watching the Funeral from the Riverbed
Where Tide
Why the Shakers Didn’t Write Poetry
Reviews
Breaking the Family Rhythms (on We Are Not in This Together by William Kittredge; The Invention of Flight by Susan Neville; Fetching the Dead by Scott R. Sanders; & Wind and Birds and Human Voices by Ellen Wilbur)
Contemporary American Poetry: Does the Material World Exist? (on The Lamplit Answer by Gjertrud Schnackenberg; The Late Wisconsin Spring by John Koethe; Each Leaf Shines Separate by Rosanna Warren; Fugitive Angels by Jeanne Murray Walker; & For the New Year by Eric Pankey)
on All the Olympians: A Biographical Portrait of the Irish Literary Renaissance by Ulick O’Connor
on Faces in a Single Tree; A Cycle of Monologues by Robert Pack
on James Dickey: The Poet As Pitchman by Neal Bowers
on Shakespearean Politics: Government and Misgovernment in the Great Histories by C. G. Thayer
on The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh by Donat Gallagher
on The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton by Michael Mott
on Unless Soul Clap Its Hands: Portraits and Passages by Erika Duncan
on Women and Death: Linkages in Western Thought and Literature by Beth Ann Bassein
Poetry Chapbooks: Things Invisible to See (on Engraved on Air by Millard Dunn; January Fire by Corrinne Hales; White Lies by Lane Jennings; Digging for Shark Teeth by Rick Lott; An American Peace by Peter Oresick; Woman in White by Toney Teague; The Glow by Robert Wrigley; & The American Zimmer by Paul Zimmer)
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