Winter 1985
Table of Contents
Essays
Invisible Ink: Writing in the Margin
Natural Virtue: Symbol and Imagination in the American Farm Crisis
Poetry and Mathematics
The Vulnerable World and Its Claims on Us
Fiction
Somewhere Geese Are Flying
The Perfecting of the Chopin Valse No. 14
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Poetry
A Case Against Old Habits: A Vision; High Noon; & When we are denied
American Country
Blue Willow
Letter
Living the Present Life
Midwinter
Miracles
Parkers Prairie, Minnesota
Pretending in Paestum
Reading Sappho
Shadblow
Sine and Cosine
Some News for Mark
Surviving in Tolstoy’s Dream
The Apple Trees
The Movement This Joy Makes
Vanished
Winter Aphorisms, Uncoded
Reviews
Chaucer and Historical Criticism: Some New Revisions (on Chaucer and the Poets: An Essay on Troilus and Criseyde by Winthrop Wetherbee & Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative: The First Five Canterbury Tales by V. A. Kolve)
Contemporary American Poems: Exclusive and Inclusive (on Cries of Swimmers by Maura Stanton; The Triumph of Achilles by Louise Glück; Healing Songs for the Inner Ear by Michael S. Harper; The Roundhouse Voices: Selected and New Poems by Dave Smith; & Elegy on Independence Day by Arthur Smith)
Journeying Eastward, Journeying Home (on Encounter with Zen: Writings on Poetry and Zen by Lucien Stryk & Collected Poems 1953-1983 by Lucien Stryle)
on America, Land of Faeries by Morgan Ossian
on Castle Tzingal by Fred Chappell
on Encounters With Chinese Writers by Annie Dillard
on Great Reckonings in Little Rooms: on the Phenomenology of Theater by Bert O. States & The Idea of the Actor: Drama and the Ethics of Performance by William B. Worthen
on Mothering the Mind: Twelve Studies of Writers and Their Silent Partners by Ruth Perry and Martine Watson Brownley
on One Hundred Years of Huckleberry Finn: The Boy, His Book, and American Culture by Robert Sattelmeyer and J. Donald Crowley
on Seeing Earth: Literary Responses To Space Exploration by Ronald Weber
on The 60s, Without Apology by Sohnya Sayres, Anders Stephanson, Stanley Aronowitz, and Fredric Jameson
on The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians. 2 volumes by Francis Paul Prucha
on The Incredulous Reader: Literature and the Function of Disbelief by Clayton Koelb
on You Know What Is Right by Jim Heynen
Seeing and Selling America: 1945-1955 (on Life: The Second Decade, 1946-1955 by Doris C. O’Neil; Out of the Forties by Nicholas Lemann; & Roy Stryker: U.S.A., 1943-1950; The Standard Oil (New Jersey) Photography Project by Steven W. Plattner)
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