Winter 1980

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Winter 1980

Table of Contents

Essays

Beckett’s Plays and the Photographic Vision

By William J. Free

Holes: The Idea of an “Entr’acte”

By William F. Van Wert

In the Suicide Seat: Reading John Hawkes’s Travesty

By Charles Baxter

Robert Penn Warren: Life’s Instancy and the Astrolabe of Joy

The Man Who Loved Women: The Medical Fictions of William Carlos Williams

By Marjorie Perloff

Toward a Philosophy of Photography

By James Guimond

Fiction

Ballerina

By Joyce Carol Oates

How the Indians Buried Their Dead

By Hilary Masters

Memories and Futures

By Murray Baumgarten

Poetry

Chorus

By David Wagoner

December Forecasts in Seattle

By William Matthews

Immanence

By Robert Penn Warren

Lullaby

By Arthur Smith

On the Marshes at Dawn

P. M. & A. M.

By Linda Pastan

Parabolic

Polish Dolls

By Geraldine Connolly

Salt

By Christopher Bursk

Snowing, Sometimes

By Stanley Plumly

The Other Life

By Tony Petrosky

The Rough-barked Cottonwood

To the Maker of “A Peaceable Kingdom”

By Daniel Hoffman

Reviews

A Centered Voice: Susan Sontag’s Short Fiction (on I, Etcetera by Susan Sontag)

By Benjamin Taylor

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

By Frederick Ferré

on The Right Promethean Fire: Imagination, Science, and Cultural Change by Ihab Hassan

By William E. Cain

On Women and Art (on The Obstacle Race by Germaine Greer; & Feminist Collage by Judy Loeb)

By Michele Bogart

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)

By Joseph Parisi