Summer 1998
Table of Contents
Essays
Making
Pacific City: Walking the Edge of the Civilized World
Poets, Poetry, and the Spiritual
Skill
Fiction
Flood Relief
Kwash Babies
Sea Dogs
Watching Girls Play
Poetry
A Disquisition upon the Soul
Coal Road
Evening Out
Gardenia
Leaving Chillon
Midwest: An Ode
Near Last Chance
Song of My Self
Squalor House
Still Here
The Children’s Book of Knowledge
The More We Know, the Less We Feel Until
The Owning Stone
The Summer of the Comet
The voice of the light
Your Mother’s Harmonica
Art
Spirit and Shadow
Reviews
In Place (on The Springs of Affection: Stories of Dublin by Maeve Brennan; Under The Red Flag by Ha Jin; She Loved Me Once and Other Stories by Lester Goran; and Quake by Nance Van Winckel)
Literary Biographers: Looking over Their Shoulders (on William Wordsworth: A Poetic Life by John L. Mahoney; Byron: The Flawed Angel by Phyllis Grosskurth; and W. B. Yeats: A Life, Volume I: The Apprentice Mage, 1865-1914 by R. F. Foster)
on Resistance of the Heart: Intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse Protest in Nazi Germany by Nathan Stoltzfus
on The Sky, the Stars, the Wilderness by Rick Bass
Simplicities (on From Darkening Porches by Jo McDougall; Journey Fruit: Poems and a Memoir by Kinereth Gensler; What the Living Do by Marie Howe; The Yellow Transparents by Joan Aleshire; and Sky and Island Light by Brendan Galvin)
Walking the Two Landscapes (on Fear Falls Away and Other Essays from Hard and Rocky Places by Janice Emily Bowers; A Wild, Rank Place: One Year on Cape Cod by David Gessner; and Boundary Waters: The Grace of the Wild by Paul Gruchow)
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