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Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
Maurice Natanson
Tony Rothman
Toby Olson
Garrison Keillor
Jeff Eugenides
Ewa Kuryluk
Sydney Lea
R. T. Smith
Beckian Fritz Goldberg
Edward Kleinschmidt
Judy Goldman
David St. John
William Hathaway
John Koethe
Stephen Dobyns
Pattiann Rogers
David Wojahn
Gary Fincke
Dina Ben-Lev
Ephraim Rubenstein







The Winter 1989 issue showcases paintings by Ephraim Rubinstein, essays by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, stories by Jeff Eugenides, Garrison Keillor, and Toby Olson, and poems by Sydney Lea, Beckian Fritz Goldberg, David St. John, Stephen Dobyns, as well as work by many others.

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Contents
Volume 2, Number 1 / Winter 1989

ESSAYS AND ESSAY-REVIEWS
    Peter Stitt, Editor’s Notes, 6
    Arthur Sclesinger, Jr., “War and the Constitution: Abraham Lincoln and
        Franklin D. Roosevelt,” 7
    Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, “To Write the Wrongs of Slavery” (review of The         Schomberg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers, ed. by
        Henry Louis Gates, Jr.), 63
    Maurice Natanson, “From Apprehension to Decay: Robert Burton’s         ‘Equivocations of Melancholy,’” 130
    Tony Rothman, “The Evolution of Entropy,” 149

FICTION
    Toby Olson, “Aransas,” 27
    Garrison Keillor, “Glasnost,” 89
    Jeff Eugenides, “Capricious Gardens,” 94
    Ewa Kuryluk, “Simone and Anna,” 114

POETRY
    Sydney Lea, “Roadside, February,” 25
    R. T. Smith, “Kitchen Windows, ” “Saint Patrick’s,” and “Last Things,” 59
    Beckian Fritz Goldberg, “Desert Winter” and “She Comes to My Door,” 77
    Edward Kleinschmidt, “Gangue,” 80
    Judy Goldman, “The End of Something Simple” and “The Peace of the
        House,” 92
    David St. John, “Last Night with Rafaella,” 111
    William Hathaway, “Mirth,” 123
    John Koethe, “The Constructor,” 124
    Stephen Dobyns, “Summer Evenings” and “The Music One Looks Back
        On,” 139
    Pattiann Rogers, “That’s Why” and “Under the Big Top,” 142
    David Wojahn, “The Resurrection of the Dead,” 146
    Gary Fincke, “At the Reception in Our Yard” and “The Skill of the Sunlight’s         Good,” 174
    Dina Bin-Lev, “Spinning,” 177

GRAPHICS
    Ephraim Rubenstein, Paintings, 81