Winter 1980
Table of Contents
Essays
Beckett’s Plays and the Photographic Vision
Holes: The Idea of an “Entr’acte”
In the Suicide Seat: Reading John Hawkes’s Travesty
Robert Penn Warren: Life’s Instancy and the Astrolabe of Joy
The Man Who Loved Women: The Medical Fictions of William Carlos Williams
Toward a Philosophy of Photography
Fiction
Ballerina
How the Indians Buried Their Dead
Memories and Futures
Poetry
Chorus
December Forecasts in Seattle
Immanence
Lullaby
On the Marshes at Dawn
P. M. & A. M.
Parabolic
Polish Dolls
Salt
Snowing, Sometimes
The Other Life
The Rough-barked Cottonwood
To the Maker of “A Peaceable Kingdom”
Reviews
A Centered Voice: Susan Sontag’s Short Fiction (on I, Etcetera by Susan Sontag)
Dimensions of Reality (on A Romance by Bruce Weigl; The Names You Gave It by Wayne Dodd; Mortal Acts, Mortal Words by Galway Kinnell; & God’s Measurements by Laurence Lieberman)
on Desperate Characters by Paula Fox, Irving Howe; & The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
on Promethean Ethics: Living with Death, Competition, and Triage by Garrett Hardin
on The Right Promethean Fire: Imagination, Science, and Cultural Change by Ihab Hassan
On Women and Art (on The Obstacle Race by Germaine Greer; & Feminist Collage by Judy Loeb)
Poets, Projects, and Personalities (on Enlarging the Temple: New Directions in American Poetry during the 1960s by Charles Altieri; The Fierce Embrace: A Study of Contemporary American Poetry by Charles Molesworth; & Part of Nature, Part of Us: Modern American Poets by Helen Vendler)
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