Winter 1987
Table of Contents
Essays
Dwelling in Possibility: Reflections of a Homebody on the Open Road
Humanities ’87: Setting Some Priorities
MexAmerica in Our Future
Sacred Space
Fiction
Everything
The Carp
Wanting Only to Be Heard
Poetry
A New Roof
Angus, the One-Legged Duckling
departure
Dolphins
Equations
North of Spruce Pine
On the Level
Seeing
The Adamsons’ Peacocks
The Dresser
The Woman on the Dump
Woman in a Series of Photographs
Reviews
In Search of Roots (on Professing Literature: An Institutional History by Gerald Graff & American Literature and the Academy: The Roots, Growth, and Maturity of a Profession by Kermit Vanderbilt)
Much Is Still Left In: Five First Books of Stories (on Resurrectionists by Russell Working; Learning the Mother Tongue by Cathryn Hankla; Temporary Shelter by Mary Gordon; Zero db and Other Stories by Madison Smartt Bell; & Town Smokes by Pinckney Benedict)
on Demand the Impossible: Science Fiction and the Utopian Imagination by Tom Moylan
on Female Adolescence: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Works of Literature by Katherine Dalsimer
on Scenes from the Homefront by Sara Vogan
on The Ideal Bakery by Donald Hall
on The Poet’s Art by M. L. Rosenthal
The Poetry of Ted Hughes: Form and Imagination by Leonard M. Scigaj
To Enlighten, To Embody (on Palladium by Alice Fulton; Under The Vulture-tree by David Bottoms; Lovesick by Gerald Stern; The End of Beauty by Jorie Graham; & Zone Journals by Charles Wright)
Interview
An “Open Mind” Profile: Katherine Anne Porter Talks with Glenway Wescott and Eric F. Goldman
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