Autumn 1992 (Volume XLV, No. 3) The Ascendancy of Theor-ese by Heather Mac Donald First Person Singular by Joseph Epstein Getting There; In the Dark; Blue and Blue; The Old Testament by Philip Levine In the Sleep of Reason; A Guide to the Asian Museums; The Poem without Meaning by John Haines From “The Erikson Stories”: Bleeders; Giant Step by Gary Krist My Piano; Two Octopuses by Mary Winifred Hood The Way In by Robin S. Chapman Bomb Threat by Lucille Lang Day Bearing Witness by John Loughery Musicals Revived by Richard Hornby Music Chronicle by Robert S. Clark Hoping for Eternal Spring by Marcia B. Siegel Love Without Pity by Bert Cardullo Tradition and Some Individual Talents by William H. Pritchard Making Sense of What Takes Place by Robert Phillips Deconstructing Literary History by Harold Fromm James McConkey and the Calculus of Fact by George Core Poetry Chronicle by David Dooley Prized Poetry by James Finn Cotter