Winter 1979 (Volume XXXI, No. 4) Bennett Award Acceptance Speech, 1978 Bennett Award speech by Andrei Sinyavsky The Art of Dreaming Criticism by Bert O. States Weather-Bound; Poverty; Sunday at McDonald’s; Density; Vehicle; Response Poetry by A. R. Ammons The White Holster; Raw Light, Mountain Lake; In the Yard, Late Summer Poetry by Dave Smith The Family Fiction by Derwent May Translations from Yun Shou-p’ing Poetry by Jonathan Chaves Sketching Hannah Fiction by David Huddle Beginning the World; Tanya; Illimitable Kingdom Poetry by Jay Parini From Conversations with Isaac Bashevis Singer Interview by Richard Burgin Ars Poetica I: Beginning Poetry by Douglass Parker Going Back There Poetry by George Hitchcock The Later Monet Arts Review by Charles W. Millard Panov: The Making of a Myth Arts Review by Marcia B. Siegel Father Knows Best Book Review by Marvin Mudrick Necessities of Memory Book Review by Patricia Meyer Spacks Poetry Chronicle: First, Second and Third Person—Singular Book Review by Vernon Young Lorca, Guillén, Salinas, and Aleixandre Book Review by Edmund L. King Grandfather Dictionary Book Review by Gary Davenport The Primacy of Printing Book Review by Leslie George Katz