Winter 1992
Table of Contents
Special Feature
“With an eye of Flemish accuracy”: An Afterword
Three Previously Unpublished Poems: “A Drunkard,” “Salem Willows,” “Suicide of a Moderate Dictator”
Essays
A History of My Silence
Jazz and Poetry: A Conversation
Silence
Silent Witnesses: Native American Maps
The Garden Wall
Zora Neale Hurston in the Land of 1,000 Dances
Fiction
Men of Limited Motion
Nada
Racism in America: The Official Report
Poetry
“One Is the Point, Two the Line, Three the Triangle, Four the Pyramid”
Country Music
Loretto Says
Midwinter Notes
Night Shade
Rat
The Jazz Workshop, Boston, 1967
The Landscape of the Piano
The Observer
What If You Wanted to Write a Poem
Reviews
Family Matters (on Playing for Keeps by Donald Junkins; Days Going / Days Coming Back and Other Poems by Eleanor Ross Taylor; Forgiveness by Dennis Sampson; Moon in a Mason Jar by Robert Wrigley; & The Makings of Happiness by Ronald Wallace)
Good Men, Bad Times (on Men Who Would Be Good by Gordon Weaver; Skin by C. E. Poverman; Public Landing Revisited by Robert Phillips; & Sweet Lucy Wine by Dabney Stuart)
Maiden Voyages and Their Pilots (on When Last I Saw You by Patricia Claire Peters; Learning to Dance by William Aarnes; Somewhere In Ecclesiastes by Judson Mitcham; Crucial Beauty by David Scott Ward; The Love That Ended Yesterday in Texas by Cathy Smith Bowers; & Under a Cat’s-Eye Moon by Martha M. Vertreace)
on After Henry by Joan Didion
on Faulkner’s Subject: A Cosmos No One Owns by Philip M. Weinstein
on London Calling: V. S. Naipaul, Postcolonial Mandarin by Rob Nixon
on White Woman Speaks with Forked Tongue: Criticism As Autobiography by Nicole Ward Jouve
The Courage to Fall (on Falling into Life by Leonard Kriegel & Secrets of the Universe: Scenes from the Journey Home by Scott Russell Sanders)
The Questions Literary Theoreticians Ask (on Is Literary History Possible? by David Perkins & Colors of the Mind: Conjectures on Thinking in Literature by Angus Fletcher)
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