In This Issue Francis Russell Richard Howard Lewis Perry Heinz R. Pagels Dan Pope Sanford Pinsker Gerald Weales J. P. White Frederick Busch Ed Minus Deborah Larsen Tony Ardizzone J. Patrick Lewis David Ignatow Daniel Hoffman Patricia Goedicke Constance Pultz Louis Simpson Wayne Dodd Carol Frost Donald Hall Gary Fincke Mary Ruefle Janet Sylvester Deborah Tall Midge Eisele Reg Saner Jon Veinberg Robert J. Levy David Rothman Edward Koren

The Spring 1988 issue showcases biofollies by Edward Koren, essays by Richard Howard, Sanford Pinsker, and Gerald Weales, stories by Tony Ardizzone and Deborah Larsen—as well as the second installment of Frederick Busch’s novella, “War Babies”—and poems by David Ignatow, Louis Simpson, Donald Hall, Mary Ruefle, Deborah Tall, and other legends.

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Contents
Volume 1, Number 2 / Spring 1988

ESSAYS AND ESSAY-REVIEWS
    Francis Russell, “Goethe and Friederike Brion: An Alsatian Idyll in Which         German Lyric Poetry Was Reborn,” 244
    Richard Howard, “Abiding Maturities of Vision” (review of Alex Katz, by
         Ann Beattie; and William Bailey, by Mark Strand), 265
    Lewis Perry, “Antislavery as a Step Toward Modernity,” 278
    Heinz R. Pagels, “The Instruments of Creation,” 299
    Dan Pope, “The Post-Minimalist American Story or What Comes After
        Carver?” (review of Love Is a Crooked Thing, by Lee K. Abbott; Strangers
        in Paradise, by Lee K. Abbott; and And Venus Is Blue, by Lee K. Abbott),
        331
    Sanford Pinsker, “Collecting Cultural Evidence” (review of The Pilot and
        the Passenger: Essays on Literature, Technology, and Culture in the United
        States, by Leo Marx; On the Prejudices, Predilections, and Firm Beliefs of
        William Faulkner, by Cleanth Brooks; and An Artificial Wilderness: Essays
        on Twentieth-Century Literature, by Sven Birkerts), 351
    Gerald Weales, “The Self-Made Man” (review of The Life fo Kenneth Tynan, by         Kathleen Tynan), 364
    J. P. White, “The Poet as Philosophical Nomad, Shuttling Between Fictions,         Facts, and teh Body’s Empathy” (review of April Galleons, by John
        Ashbery; The End of Beauty, by Jorie Graham; Forseeable Futures, by William         Matthews; The Haw Lantern, by Seamus Heaney; and The Gold Cell, by
        Sharon Olds), 393

FICTION
    Frederick Busch, “War Babies, Part II,” 207
    Ed Minus, “The Birth and Death of Music,” 321
    Deborah Larsen, “Father Pat Springer,” 343
    Tony Ardizzone, “The Unfinished Minaret,” 375

POETRY
    J. Patrick Lewis, “The Red Army Colones, Drunk on New Year’s Eve,” 243
    David Ignatow, “A Sequence I,” 261
    Daniel Hoffman, “New Wine,” 263
    Patricia Goedicke, “Mountainside Farm,” “Lost in Translation,” and
        “Weight Bearing,” 271
    Constance Pultz, “Mornings Like These,” 295
    Louis Simpson, “Santa Monica Boulevard,” 296
    Wayne Dodd, “Late Summer Song,” 308
    Carol Frost, “This Early,” 330
    Donald Hall, “Eclogue,” 348
    Gary Fincke, “What the Builders Left,” 350
    Mary Ruefle, “The Derision of Christ in New England” and “The Details
        from Your Last Letter,” 360
    Janet Sylvester, “Illumination Rounds,” 362
    Deborah Tall, “The Last Horseman” and “First Night, Tuscany,” 372
    Midge Eisele, “Savannah,” 374
    Reg Saner, “Winter Stars over Volterra” and “Walking into the Moon,”
        386
    Jon Veinberg, “The Hand That Once Held Fire,” 389
    Robert J. Levy, “Cat and Mouse,” 390
    David Rothman, “You Have Caught the Screaming Baby,” 392

GRAPHICS
    Edward Koren, Biofollies, 313

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