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