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Donald Hall
Louis Simpson
Charles Simic
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Beckian Fritz Goldberg
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The Spring 1990 issue showcases paintings by Howard Finster, essays by Benjamin Griffith and Sanford Pinsker, fiction by Lee K. Abbott, Clint McCown, and Louis Simpson, and poems by Charles Simic, Dabney Stuart, Stanley Plumly, Beckian Fritz Goldberg, Paul Zimmer, and a host of estimable others.

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Contents
Volume 3, Number 2 / Spring 1990

ESSAYS AND ESSAY-REVIEWS
    Peter Stitt, Editor’s Notes, 263
    Floyd Collins, “History and Myth in Contemporary Poetry” (review of
        Groom Falconer,
by Norman Dubie; Annonciade, by Elizabeth Spires;
        Baptism of Desire,
by Louise Erdrich; God Hunger, by Michael Ryan;
        and Boy on the Step, by Stanley Plumly), 285
    Benjamin Griffith, “Howard Finster, Visionary Painter: God’s Second
        Noah and Last Red Light,” 305
    William J. Schafer, “Air Trails,” 348
    Gerald Weales, “Can’t Get Indiana Off My Mind,” 376
    John C. Hampsey, “ ‘So the Cap Fits!’: Strange Truths in Kafka’s
        America,” 400
    Sanford Pinsker, “Revisionist Thought, Academic Power, and the Aging
        American Intellectual,” 417

FICTION
    Sara Corbett, “Atlas,” 269
    Lee K. Abbott, “Freedom A Theory of,” 333
    Clint McCown, “Surface Tension,” 361
    Donald Hall, “Fifty People Talking,” 388
    Louis Simpson, “Humane Letters,” 408

POETRY
    Charles Simic, “The Infinte,” “Some Nights,” “Place at the Outskirts,”
        and “The Old World,” 265
    Dabney Stuart, “Fish Magic” and “The Executive Discovers Poetry,” 282
    Stanley Plumly, “White Bible,” 303
    Marvin Bell, “O’Keeffe Left to Herself,” 329
    Stephen Dobyns, “Cézanne’s A Modern Olympia—1872” and “Cézanne
        and the Love of Color,” 346
    Kelly Cherry, “Green That Inspires Longings for Joy” and “On Looking
        at a Yellow Wagon,” 359
    J. Patrick Lewis, “A Sunday to Her Liking,” 375
    Marianne Boruch, “The Surveying Class,” 387
    Beckian Fritz Goldberg, “Glory” and “Move Me,” 396
    Paul Zimmer, “Zimmer’s Existential Year,” 407
    B. A. St. Andrews, “A Meditation of Vermeer,” 415

GRAPHICS
    Howard Finster, Paintings, 427