In This Issue Beverly Lowry Ewa Kuryluk John P. Sisk Gerald Weales Stven G. Kellman Richard Gillam Dan Pope Mark Jarman Gerald Shapiro Jay Neugeboren Padgett Powell Fred G. Leebron Miles Wilson Joyce Carol Oates Marvin Bell Frances Mayes Peter Makuck David Craig Austin Jim Daniels Carol Frost Henri Cole Dannye Romine-Powell Mark Wethli

The Autumn 1989 issue showcases paintings by Mark Wethli, essays by Beverly Lowry and Mark Jarman, stories by Padgett Powell, Gerald Shapiro, and Fred G. Leebron, and poems by Marvin Bell, Frances Mayes, Carol Frost, Henri Cole, as well as work by many others.

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Contents
Volume 2, Number 4 / Autumn 1989

ESSAYS AND ESSAY-REVIEWS
    Peter Stitt, Editor’s Notes, 558
    Beverly Lowry, “The Writing Lesson,” 559
    Ewa Kuryluk, “The Abyss, or Readings in Totalitarianism” (review of Beyond         Glasnost: The Post-Totalitarian Mind, by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb; Pravda: Inside
        the Soviet News Machine, by Angus Roxburgh; and My Century: The Odyssey
        of a Polish Intellectual, by Aleksander Wat), 576
    John P. Sisk, “The Entertainments of Disaffection,” 598
    Gerald Weales, “The Postman Cometh” (review of Selected Letters of Eugene
        O’Neill, ed. by Travis Bogard and Jackson R. Bryer), 647
    Steven G. Kellman, “Three Men in a Funk” (review of The Culture We Deserve,
        by Jacques Barzun; Partial Payments: Essays on Writers and Their Lives, by
        Joseph Epstein; and At Home: Essays 1982-1988, by Gore Vidal), 673
    Richard Gillam, “C. Wright Mills and Lionel Trilling: ‘Imagination’ in the
        Fifties,” 680
    Dan Pope, “The Centrality of Personal Memory” (review of The Ideal Bakery,
        by Donald Hall; A Letter to Peachtree, by Benedict Kiely; and Jack of
        Diamonds, by Elizabeth Spencer), 694
    Mark Jarman, “Narrative Beauty in Book-Length Poems” (review of The Niobe         Poems, by Kate Daniels; After the Lost War, by Andrew Hudgins; and In and
        Out, by Daryl Hine), 705

FICTION
    Gerald Shapiro, “A Tale of Urban Horror and Mayhem,” 562
    Jay Neugeboren, “Your Children Have Been Towed,” 587
    Padgett Powell, “The Modern Italian,” 612
    Fred G. Leebron, “Raccoon,” 641
    Miles Wilson, “Christmas at the Dixie Motel,” 659

POETRY
    Joyce Carol Oates, “Orion,” 575
    Marvin Bell, “The Retaliatarians,” 597
    Frances Mayes, “Etruscan Head ” and “The Long Bony Cats of
        Montecatini,” 608
    Peter Makuck, “Skunk Flag” and “Raven, Mountain, Snow,” 630
    David Craig Austin, “Saint Francis & the Elephants,” 658
    Jim Daniels, “Spring Sap,” 672
    Carol Frost, “Icarus in Winter,” 679
    Henri Cole, “Tuxedo” and “The Zoo Wheel of Knowledge,” 690
    Dannye Romine-Powell, “The Absence of Bounty” and “Hope, Dead But
        Well Preserved, Now Crumbles,” 703

GRAPHICS
    Mark Wethli, Paintings, 633

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