In This Issue Steven G. Kellman Richard Howard Mary Hood Robert B. Heilman Hans C. Von Baeyer Tony Rothman Sanford Pinsker Louis Simpson Paul West Gloria Whelan Frederick Busch Ivy Goodman Dan Pope Stephen Dixon Judson Mitcham Charles Wright Linda Pastan Maurya Simon Michael Heffernan Norman Dubie Tom Johnson June Goodwin Edward Hirsch Sharon Olds Charles Simic Dabney Stuart Rita Dove Eric Pankey Philip Levine John Winship

The Winter 1998 issue, our trumpeted literary debut, features paintings by John Winship, essays by Louis Simpson, Richard Howard, and Mary Hood—whose piece was selected for inclusion in the 1989 edition of The Best American Essays—part one of a serialized novella by Frederick Busch, short stories by Gloria Whelan, Stephen Dixon, and Dan Pope, and prize-winning poems by Judson Mitcham, Rita Dove, and Philip Levine.

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Contents
Volume 1, Number 1 / Winter 1988

ESSAYS AND ESSAY-REVIEWS
    Peter Stitt, “‘[We] greet you at the beginning...’” Editor’s Notes, 6
    Steven G. Kellman, “Cinema of/as Atrocity: Shoah’s Guilty Conscience,”
        22
    Richard Howard, “The Menil Collection,” 64
    Mary Hood, “Why Stop?” 79
    Robert B. Heilman, “We’re Here: Heresay and Other Versions of the Place
        Sense,” 88
    Hans C. Von Baeyer, “The Power of the Principle Resonance,” 100
    Tony Rothman, “Physicists, Trefil, and the Role of Popularizers in
        America” (review of A Scientist at the Seashore, by James Trefil; Meditations
        at 10,000 Feet: A Scientist in the Mountains, by James Trefil; and Meditations
        at Sunset: A Scientist Looks at the Sky, by James Trefil), 109
    Sanford Pinsker, “Hemingway and His Biographical Wounds” (review of         Hemingway, by Kenneth S. Lynn; The True Gen: An Intimate Portrait of
        Hemingway by Those Who Knew Him, by Denis Brian; The Young Hemingway,         by Michael Reynolds; and Along With Youth: Hemingway, The Early Years,
        by Peter Griffin), 137
    Louis Simpson, “Facts and Poetry” (review of The Arkansas Testament, by
        Derek Walcott; Lovesick, by Gerald Stern; Palladium, by Alice Fulton; Under
        the Vulture Tree, by David Bottoms; and Rock and Hawk: A Selection of
        Shorter Poems by Robinson Jeffers, eddited by Robert Hass), 156
    Paul West, “Endgames: or the Plague for Which There Is No Known
        Anecdote” (review of The Rat, by Günter Grass; and Past Perfect, by Yaakov         Shabtai), 177

FICTION
    Gloria Whelan, “Keeping House with Freud,” 7
    Frederick Busch, “War Babies, Part I,” 33
    Ivy Goodman, “Diagnosis,” 117
    Dan Pope, “How My Father Met the Greatest Minds of the Twentieth
        Century,” 149
    Stephen Dixon, “Frog Going Downstairs,” 169

POETRY
    Judson Mitcham, “Driving Home from the Clinic” and “Explanations,” 19
    Charles Wright, “Light Journal” and “Chinese Journal,” 31
    Linda Pastan, “Something About the Trees” and “The Deathwatch Beetle,”
        61
    Maurya Simon, “Origins,” 69
    Michael Heffernan, “In the Forum at Lugdunum” and “The Journey to
        Brindisi,” 86
    Norman Dubie, “Northwind Escarpment” and “Shipwreck,” 98
    Tom Johnson, “Falling Asleep in the Car” and “All I Can Say to You,” 107
    June Goodwin, “Conventions,” 116
    Edward Hirsch, “Siblings,” 122
    Sharon Olds, “The Cemetery” and “Where Will Love Go?” 126
    Charles Simic, “Book of Magic,” “Evening Talk,” and “Chairs,” 146
    Dabney Stuart, “The End of the Century,” 155
    Rita Dove, “The Late Notebooks of Albrecht Dürer,” 166
    Eric Pankey, “Doctor of Happiness,” 175
    Philip Levine, “Dog Poem,” 190

GRAPHICS
    John Winship, Paintings, 129

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