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Michael Pressler
Richard Howard
Jocoba Hood
Diane Williams
Harry Albert Haines
George Cuomo
Tony Rothman
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Ian Davidson
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David Huntley
Alvin Greenberg
Jean Nordhaus
Julie Fay
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John Woods
William Virgil Davis
William Olsen
Mark Halliday
Debora Greger
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The Summer 1988 issue showcases paintings by Barbara Kassel, essays by Richard Howard, Rita Dove, and Jeremy Bernstein, stories by Philip Gambone and Diane Williams, and poems by Lynda Hull, Jean Nordhaus, William Olsen, Mark Halliday, Debora Greger, as well as stunning work by many others.

To order a copy of the Summer 1988 issue today, go to the Featured Back Issue page, fill out the form, and in the Notes box, specify that you wish to receive issue 1.3.


Contents
Volume 1, Number 3 / Summer 1988

ESSAYS AND ESSAY-REVIEWS
    Peter Stitt, “Making Our Way,” Editor’s Notes, 422
    Michael O’Rourke, “Nothing at All,” 440
    John Hampsey, “On Fragmentation,” 445
    Michael O’Brien, “On Transcending the Mollusk: Cosmopolitanism and         Historical Discourse,” 457
    Jeremy Bernstein, “A Woman’s Place” (review of Little Sparrow: A
        Portrait of Sophia Kovalevsky,
by Don H. Kennedy), 473
    Rita Dove, “Notes to the Earth: The Poems of Lucille Clifton,” 501
    Michael Pressler, “The Punk in the Gray Flannel Suit,” 542
    Richard Howard, “One Flesh: Photographs of Holly Wright,” 569

FICTION
    Jacoba Hood, “Valentine’s Day,” 423
    Diane Williams, “OK for People,” 452
    Harry Albert Haines, “Sween Man,” 491
    George Cuomo, “Courtly Behavior,” 509
    Tony Rothman, “The Interrogation,” 521
    Philip Gambone, “The Language We Use Up Here,” 554

POETRY
    E. G. Burrows, “Road Kill,” 438
    Jane Somerville, “The Woman Contemplates Syntax,” 444
    Ian Davidson, “Night Flight,” 451
    Lynda Hull, “Adagio,” 454
    David Huntley, “Love of Weather,” 456
    Alvin Greenberg, “breathing easy,” “what with,” and “in the graveyard,
        my father,” 469
    Jean Nordhaus, “Like Wild Geese,” 480
    Julie Fay, “Flowers,” 489
    B. A. St. Andrews, “Of Love and War and the Messenger,” 498
    John Woods, “The Long Head Poem,” 508
    William Vigil Davis, “Windows,” 520
    William Olsen, “Reading Willa Cather” and “Godlessness,” 537
    Mark Halliday, “Springtime for You” and “What Will Suffice,” 551
    Debora Greger, “St. Jerome on the Virgin’s Profession” and “In Violet,”
        566

GRAPHICS
    Barbara Kassel, Paintings, 313