30th Anniversary Issue

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Essays

• What Was Modernism?   Robert Martin Adams   

• Us or Them   Patricia Meyer Spacks   

• The Shape of Death in American Autobiography   G. Thomas Couser   

Fiction

• Magic   Dinitia Smith   

• The Quality of Unmercy   Frawley Becker   

Poems

• The Metamorphosis; "In this dream"; "There's the reality"; The Life They Lead; "I want to be buried"; "The seasons doubt themselves"   David Ignatow   

• Noon, Toronto; Jungle Gardens; Driving South; Buffalo/Stasis   Jerome Mazzaro   

• I Imagine Driving Across Country; My Grandfather Walks in the Woods   Marilyn (see also Marilyn Nelson) Waniek   
  Marilyn Nelson    Full Text

• The Bones that Shape the Emptiness   Jeanne Foster Hill   

• He Goes to a Costume Party Dressed as Gerard Manley Hopkins   Philip Dacey   

• Advertisement; The Whistling Swans   Patricia Sheppard   

• Waiting for My Life; Elegy   Linda Pastan   

• Anna's Song   James Reiss   

• Dreaming of Deafness   Robert Pinsky   

Chronicles

• Schoenberg, Rosen and the Common Listener   William H. Youngren   

• American Composition Now   Robert S. Clark   

• The Cake with the Stripper Inside   Marcia B. Siegel   

• American Style and Quality   Charles W. Millard   

Reviews

• Ishmaels All   Dean Flower   

• I Don't Care What Mama Don't Allow   Marvin Mudrick   

• Lowell at the End   Denis Donoghue   

• The Spirit in Mid-Winter Rises   Robert McDowell   

• Poetry Reading   James Finn Cotter   

• The New World   Ronald Varney   

• Schumacher's Guide   Francis Flaherty   

• Post-Modern and After   Guy Davenport