30th Anniversary Issue

Essays

What Was Modernism?
by Robert Martin Adams
Us or Them
by Patricia Meyer Spacks
The Shape of Death in American Autobiography
by G. Thomas Couser

Fiction

Magic
by Dinitia Smith
The Quality of Unmercy
by 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”
by David Ignatow
Noon, Toronto; Jungle Gardens; Driving South; Buffalo/Stasis
by Jerome Mazzaro
I Imagine Driving Across Country; My Grandfather Walks in the Woods
by Marilyn (see Also Marilyn Nelson) Waniek, Marilyn Nelson
Free
The Bones that Shape the Emptiness
by Jeanne Foster
He Goes to a Costume Party Dressed as Gerard Manley Hopkins
by Philip Dacey
Advertisement; The Whistling Swans
by Patricia Sheppard
Waiting for My Life; Elegy
by Linda Pastan
Anna’s Song
by James Reiss
Dreaming of Deafness
by Robert Pinsky

Chronicles

Schoenberg, Rosen and the Common Listener
by William H. Youngren
American Composition Now
by Robert S. Clark
The Cake with the Stripper Inside
by Marcia B. Siegel
American Style and Quality
by Charles W. Millard

Reviews

Ishmaels All
by Dean Flower
I Don’t Care What Mama Don’t Allow
by Marvin Mudrick
Lowell at the End
by Denis Donoghue
The Spirit in Mid-Winter Rises
by Robert Mcdowell
Poetry Reading
by James Finn Cotter
The New World
by Ronald Varney
Schumacher’s Guide
by Francis Flaherty
Post-Modern and After
by Guy Davenport