Winter 2000
Table of Contents
Essays
Cathedrals, Churches, Caves: Notes on Architecture, History, and Worship
Refugium
The Condition of My Faith
The Stablest Element
Fiction
Accidents
The Chief Creatures of God
The Journey West
Poetry
Aunt Avis
Do They Have a Reason?
Happiness Jazz
Icon
Savior
Sister Mary Appassionata on the Grand Unified Theory
Snow
Song of the Oceans of the World Becoming
The Betrayal
Reviews
Authoritative Voice (on The Drowning and Other Stories by Edward J. Delaney; The Baby Can Sing and Other Stories by Judith Slater; My Father, Dancing by Bliss Broyard; and Welding with Children by Tim Gautreaux)
Horton Hatchets Hitler (on Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel by Richard H. Minear
In Pursuit of Elegance (on Learning Human: Selected Poems by Les Murray; Open Closed Open by Yehuda Amichai; Tiepolo’s Hound by Derek Walcott; The Flashboat: Poems Collected and Reclaimed by Jane Cooper; Reign of Snakes by Robert Wrigley; How Things Are by James Richardson; Years Later by Gregory Djanikian; and Different Hours by Stephen Dunn)
on Holy Personal: Looking for Small Private Places of Worship by Laura Chester and Donna DeMari
on Notes for a Late-blooming Martyr by Marlys West
The Elegant Dances of Marcel Proust and W. B. Yeats (on Marcel Proust: A Life by William C. Carter; Yeats’s Ghosts: The Secret Life of W. B. Yeats by Brenda Maddox)
The Eloquent Wrath of Sylvia Plath (on The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Karen V. Kukil)
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