Summer 1986
Table of Contents
Essays
A Tree, A Streamlined Fish, and a Self-Squared Dragon: Science as a Form of Culture
American Theater Watch, 1985–1986
Charles White: The People’s Artist
Degeneration: The Explanatory Nightmare
Fiction
After Moore
Life Drawing
Poetry
A Prologue to the “Georgics”
About Women & A Knowledge of Water
Construction
Distance & Taking Both Sides
Like
Picnicking on the Indian Grounds
Snapping Turtle
Tennyson Under the Yews
The Need for Shoes
The Promise of Light
Tracks in the Sand
What Can Be United
Whistle Maker & The Palace at 4 A.M.
Reviews
Listening to Emerson (on Emerson’s Demanding Optimism by Gertrude Reif Hughes & Emerson’s Romantic Style by Julie Ellison)
on Ezra Pound and Dorothy Shakespear: Their Letters, 1909-1914 by Omar Pound and A. Walton Litz
on Fictions in Autobiography: Studies in the Art of Self-Invention by Paul John Eakin
on Passing Through: A Fiction by Leon V. Driskell; Loving Belle Starr by Robert Taylor, Jr.
on The Periodic Table by Primo Levi and Raymond Rosenthal
on The Philosopher’s Diet: How to Lose Weight and Change the World by Richard Watson
on Toward the End: Closure and Structure in the American Short Story by John Gerlach
on Transparent Landscapes by Alane Rollings & Keeping Still, Mountain by John Engman
Poetry Chapbooks: Back to the Basics (on Summer Sleep by David Baker; Woman Speaking inside Film Noir by Gillian Conoley; Central States by Michael Heffernan; Shore Guide to Flocking Names by Robert Huff; The Fish Catcher by Pat Matsueda; Carolina Shout! by Shelby Stephenson; & The Armies, Vast and Abstract, Will Appear by Jet Wimp)
Staying at Home and Going Away (on The Long Approach by Maxine Kumin; A Fraction of Darkness by Linda Pastan; The Unborn by Rodney Jones; Selected Poems 1963-1983 by Charles Simic; & The Springhouse by Norman Dubie)
The New Ulysses (on Ulysses: A Critical and Synoptic Edition. 3 volumes by James Joyce and Hans Walter Gabler)
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