Winter 1986
Table of Contents
Essays
“The Catcher in the Rye” and All: Is the Age of Formative Books Over?
Dickinson Descending
Jules Lion’s New Orleans
The Dialectics of Nudity
The Evolution of Heroes’ Honor in the Southern Literary Tradition
Fiction
Edward and Jill
Her Book
Underground
Poetry
Beauty
Coming Home from the Post Office
Harriet St.
Imaginary Numbers & Checkers
Letter Accompanying the Specimen of an Amazing Bird
Longer
Lucille, Post-Operative Years
Messiaen
Replay
The Flight of Starlings
The Lessons
The Poem at the End of the World
This Day After Yesterday
Those Who Wrestle with the Angel for Us
You Get So
Reviews
Coherence Through Place in Contemporary American Poetry (on Relations: Selected Poems 1950-1985 by Philip Booth; Selected Poems by Robert Bly; In These Mountains by Peter Sacks; Collected Poems by Robert Hay Den and Frederick Glaysher; & Thomas and Beulah by Rita Dove)
Dickinson: Upon the First Centennial (on Dickinson: Strategies of Limitation by Jane Donahue Eberwein; Emily Dickinson and the Life of Language: A Study in Symbolic Poetics by E. Miller Budick; Dickinson: The Anxiety of Gender by Vivian R. Pollak; & The Master Letters of Emily Dickinson by R. W. Franklin)
Language and Pressure (on Self and Sensibility in Contemporary American Poetry by Charles Altieri; Introspection and Contemporary Poetry by Alan Williamson; & American Poetry and Culture, 1945-1980 by Robert Von Hallberg)
on Atrocity and Amnesia: The Political Novel Since 1945 by Robert Boyers
on Exorcising Blackness: Historical and Literary Lynching and Burning Rituals by Trudier Harris
on Forty Acres and a Goat: A Memoir by Will D. Campbell
on Louise Bogan: A Portrait by Elizabeth Frank
on Open Season: Sporting Adventures by William Humphrey
on Strong Measures: Contemporary American Poetry in Traditional Forms by Philip Dacey and David Jauss
on The Post-Modern Aura: The Act of Fiction in an Age of Inflation by Charles Newman
on The Scandal of the Fabliaux by R. Howard Bloch
on Ultramarine by Raymond Carver
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