Summer 1988
Table of Contents
Essays
Guns and Boyhood in America
How to Draw
Monumental Kitsch: Borglum’s Mt. Rushmore
Parade March from “That Creaturely World”
The Fabulous Presumption of Disney World: Magic Kingdom in the Wilderness
The Movies as Monster: Seeing in “King Kong”
What Is Literature Good For?
Fiction
Ned Jumper
Poetry
Caught
Family Tree
Honeymoon
Matisse’s Tablecloth
Miscounting
Ode on the Unsung; Goose’s Jack: Over the Hill?; Last I Remember: 1973; & Manichean Middle Game
The Candyman
The Feel of Things
The Future
The Great Piece of Turf & Horse and Tree
The Presence of the Lute
There Is Constant Movement in My Head
Reviews
Literary History in an Indeterminate Age (on Columbia Literary History of the United States by Emory Elliott)
Mystery and Mannerisms (on In the Music Library by Ellen Hunnicutt; Man’s Work by John Connelly; Acts of Love by James McKinley; & Emperor of the Air by Ethan Canin)
on In Hawthorne’s Shadow: American Romance from Melville to Mailer by Samuel Chase Coale
on Joyce’s Anatomy of Culture by Cheryl Herr
on Magic Shows by David Graham
on St. John de Crèvecoeur: The Life of an American Farmer by Gay Wilson Allen and Roger Asselineau
on The Paradise of Bombs by Scott Russell Sanders
on Under Cover of Daylight by James W. Hall
Speaking Passions (on An Oregon Message by William Stafford; To the Quick by Heather McHugh; Shades by Heather McHugh; The Imperfect Paradise by Linda Pastan; To the Place of Trumpets by Brigit Pegeen Kelly; & Rose by Li-Young Lee)
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