In This Issue E. L. Doctorow James Wright Peter Stitt Floyd Collins Peter Cummings Monroe K. Spears James A. Grimshaw, Jr. Peter Klappert David Weiss Stephen Dobyns Philip Levine Pattiann Rogers Linda Pastan David Kirby Quinton Duval Gary Fincke Paul Mariani Debora Greger Michael Heffernan Jane Somerville Robert Wrigley John Meredith Hill Sarah Raphael

The Winter 1990 issue contains a special feature on James Wright, which includes essays about Wright’s life and work by E. L. Doctorow and Peter Stitt, as well as a selection of Wright’s earliest poems. In addition, this issue showcases paintings by Sarah Raphael, essays by Peter Cummings and Peter Klappert, fiction by Stephen Dobyns and Philip Levine, and poems by Patiann Rogers, Linda Pastan, Debora Greger, as well as outstanding work by a league of others.

To order a copy of the Winter 1990 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 3.1.

Contents
Volume 3, Number 1 / Winter 1990

SPECIAL FEATURE ON JAMES WRIGHT
    Peter Stitt, Editor’s Notes, 7
    E. L. Doctorow, “James Wright at Kenyon,” 11
    James Wright, “To Justify My Singing,” “Contradictory Existence,”
        “Untitled,” “Lame Apollo,” “To Critics, and to Hell with Them,”
        “Sonnet: On My Violent Approval of Robert Service,” “Sonnet:
        Response,” “Poem,” and “The Angry Mother,” 23
    Peter Stitt, “An Introduction to the Poet James Wright,” 35

ESSAYS AND ESSAY-REVIEWS
    Floyd Collins, “The Language of Illumination” (review of The Burden
        Lifters, by Michael Waters; The Man at Home, by Michael Heffernan;
        Days of Awe, by Maurya Simon; Out in the Open, by Margaret Gibson;
        and The Great Bird of Love, by Paul Zimmer), 53
    Peter Cummings, “The Making of Meaning: Sex Words and Sex Acts
        in Shakespeare’s Othello,” 75
    Monroe K. Spears, “Robert Penn Warren and the Literary Life,” 203
    James A. Grimshaw, Jr., “Robert Penn Warren: A Reminiscence,” 207
    Peter Klappert, “I Want, I Don’t Want: The Poetry of Margaret
        Atwood” (review of Selected Poems, 1965–1975 and Selected Poems II:
        Poems Selected and New, 1976–1986, by Margaret Atwood), 217
    David Weiss, “Refusing to Name the Animals,” 233

FICTION
    Stephen Dobyns, “Saratoga Phoenix,” 85
    Philip Levine, “The Key,” 183

POETRY
    Patiann Rogers, “To Complete a Thought” and “The Mad Linguist,” 49
    Linda Pastan, “In the Fall,” “Lost Luggage,” and “Maria Im
        Rosenhaag ,” 71
    David Kirby, “Othello” and “Nosebleed, Gold Digger, KGB, Henry James,         Handshake,” 81
    Quinton Duval, “In Vino Veritas,” 168
    Gary Fincke, “The Extrapolation Dreams,” 177
    Paul Mariani, “What Can We Expect of Language!?,” 199
    Debora Greger, “Vermeer,” 201
    Michael Heffernan, “The Blessings of Liberty,” “The Light of the Living,”
        and “The Atonements,” 214
    Jane Somerville, “All the Pathos, All the Triumph,” 231
    Robert Wrigley, “Ravens at Deer Dreek,” 242
    John Meredith Hill, “Waiting,” 243

GRAPHICS
    Sarah Raphael, Paintings, 169

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