Spring 1997 (Volume L, No. 1) The First Annual Performance Art Festival at the Slaughter Rock Battlefield Fiction by Thomas M. Disch New Translations from Cavafy Poetry by Daniel Mendelsohn New Translations, by Daniel Medelsohn Poetry by Constantine Cavafy Southern Classics Criticism by Susan Balée Irish Poetry at the Crossroads Criticism by David Mason Harold Bloom and King Lear: Tragic Misreading Criticism by Carol Iannone The Scandal; What Bill Stafford Was Like Poetry by Robert Bly Before the Beginning: Maybe God and a Silk Flower Concubine Perhaps; Come, Drink Here Poetry by Pattiann Rogers The Harp Seal Poetry by Robin S. Chapman Oxford Meeting; The Telling Poetry by Colette Inez Frogs Returning Moon; Hop Fields in Winter Poetry by Floyd Skloot Musée d’Orsay Poetry by Brian Cox The Arrival Poetry by John Drexel Woodman Poetry by Ruth Fainlight Road Fever Arts Review by Bert Cardullo Bits and Pieces Arts Review by John Loughery Hiroshima et l’amour Arts Review by Richard Hornby Discovering Ives, Once Again Book Review by Josiah Fisk Poetry Chronicle Book Review by Robert McDowell Assessing the New Formalism, So-Called Book Review by Robert Phillips Telling Stories About the Bartrams Book Review by Harold Fromm Familiar Capability Book Review by Thomas Filbin The Joy of Reasoning Book Review by Thomas M. Disch At the Goreyworks Book Review by William H. Pritchard