Winter 1980 (Volume XXXII, No. 4) Passage by R. G. Vliet Meditation on Play, Thoughts on Death by Linda Collins The Approach of Snow by Sally Wood Driving Into Enid; More Trouble With the Obvious; Do Not Dump Dead Animals; Walking the Baby to the Liquor Store by Michael Van Walleghen Yankee Poet by Robley Wilson, Jr. Recalling the Horseman Billy Farrell from an Airplane in Vermont; For Don C., Against a Proverb by Sydney Lea Fall Colors; Pacific Beach; Laguna Beach: The Settlement by Jerome Mazzaro Revelation by Jerald Bullis Love Poem; A Particular Valentine by Hayden Carruth How Many Lovers Had Virginia Woolf? by Sonya Rudikoff Music Chronicle by Robert S. Clark Fiction Chronicle by Clara Claiborne Park Conradically Speaking by William H. Pritchard Imperial Fictions by Dean Flower Facts and Fictions of Life by Gary Davenport The Brother of Us All by Marvin Mudrick The Gospel Proffer by James Finn Cotter The Piranesi Effect: Alone and Well in Prison by Bert O. States No One Said It Would Be Easy by Vernon Young Bennett Award Acceptance Speech, 1980 by V.S. Naipaul Standing by Words by Wendell Berry In Our Beds of Doubt or Certainty by David Rosenburg Daughters of Passion by Julia O’Faolain Wordless Winter by Peter Davison The Empire of the Senses; The Constellation; In Memoriam: J.B. by Celia Gilbert Passenger by Ruth Fainlight Film Chronicle: The Bloody British Cinema by Vernon Young The Publicity Hound by Marvin Mudrick These Days in the Holocene by Gilberto Perez Ghosts on a Gold Mountain by Clara Claiborne Park Mazzaro, Vendler, Freud & Co. by Emily Grosholz Blackmur’s Last Song by William H. Pritchard Poetry Chronicle by Dana Gioia For Better or Worse: The Year’s Verse by James Finn Cotter