Spring 1996 (Volume XLIX, No. 1) The Hand of the Poet: The Magical Value of Manuscripts by Dana Gioia The Death of a Finch by Bert O. States All Sorts of Things; In Country Houses; In the Twilight by Louis Simpson Hubcaps Edging in the Yard; Peace Studies; These Same, These Many Birds by Lynne McMahon Family Values by Joseph Epstein Purple; Bloodspike by Andrew Hudgins Ballade; Four Rondeaux by Thomas M. Disch The Waters of March by Robert Richman Road Thoughts by Jerome Mazzaro Prophet Against God: William Empson 1906-84 by George Watson Frank Tuohy and the Poetics of Depression by Dean Flower Matriarchal Mysteries by Marcia B. Siegel The Real Thing by John Loughery Freudian Drama by Richard Hornby Bread and Poetry by Bert Cardullo book review by Karen Wilkin Fiction Chronicle by William H. Pritchard The Green and Grey by Clara Claiborne Park Reason or Volksgeist? by Harold Fromm Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, Rosen by Josiah Fisk Poetry Chronicle by David Mason