Winter 1981
Table of Contents
Special Feature
Poetry in a Discouraging Time
Essays
from Tristram’s Rhapsody: Tristram’s Attack on Modern Poetry
Reading Poets
Style and Tradition
The Linear Fallacy
Fiction
The Snow That Is Nothing in the Triangle
Poetry
A True Voice
Aging Painter Sits Where the Great Tower Heaves Down Midnight
Chertea
Facets
Fall
Flying Over Illinois at Sunset
For Dulcimer & Doubled Voice
In a Dark Wood
January
Lines Not Meant To Be Written
Lives of the Poets
Losses
Luxury of Sin
Mama’s Murders
Milkweed Pods in Winter
Moonlight Walk: Li Po
Old Bud
Sadness and Still Life
Severe Figures
The Art of Surrender
The Husks
The Inventions of Memory
The Man on My Porch Makes Me an Offer
We Come To Silence
Winter
Yellowthroats
You Thought So Far
Art
Interior / Audience Repeated
Reviews
At the Beginning and the End of the Earth (on Basin and Range by John McPhee; Sand Rivers by Peter Matthiessen, Hugo van Lawick)
Engagements with Reality (on Selected Poems by Mark Strand; Bazaar by Susan Wood; With Wanda: Town and Country Poems by Paul Zimmer; The Red Coal by Gerald Stern;& The Cheer by William Meredith)
Prize-Winning Novels and the Contemporary Fictional Voice (on After Freud by Mary Elsie Robertson; & Kingdoms by Barry Targan)
The Uncanny Mr. Logan (on Only the Dreamer Can Change the Dream: Selected Poems 1953-1973 by John Logan & The Bridge of Change by John Logan)
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