Summer 1996 (Volume XLIX, No. 2) Mistah Lowell—He Dead Criticism by Joseph Epstein Journey; Directions; The Tree House; Gibbet Poetry by Charles Tomlinson Worse than a Dozen Kids Memoir by Lucille Lang Day Pawnee Dust; The Way West; Evening Change; I Will Tell You How It Was in My Country; Procession Poetry by John Haines The Comfort of This World Fiction by Dean Doner Chiaroscuro; Rondo, Andante; How the Last Tomb Was Opened Poetry by Emily Grosholz Lighten Our Darkness Poetry by John Holloway What’s So Great About Vermeer? Criticism by David Littlejohn Reverence for Life Poetry by Dennis Sampson Glinka Dancing; Bittersweet Nightshade Poetry by Floyd Skloot The Acolyte of Grooming Poetry by Suzanne Rhodenbaugh The Look Poetry by Neal Bowers Forty-Second Street Arts Review by Richard Hornby Smoke and Tearsn Arts Review by Bert Cardullo Abstract Visions/Metropolitan Lives Arts Review by John Loughery My Brontë Problem—And Yours? Book Review by William H. Pritchard Banqueting on Facts Arts Review by Clara Claiborne Park Between Cultures Book Review by Tom Wilhelmus Andrew Ross, Democritus Junior, and the Curse of Postmodernism Book Review by Harold Fromm North American Addresses: Two Verse Narratives Book Review by Thomas M. Disch Ways of Telling Book Review by Robert Phillips Poetry Chronicle Book Review by R. S. Gwynn