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The Autumn 1990 issue showcases paintings by Betty Tompkins, essays by Dan Pope and Charles Baxter, fiction by Tony Ardizzone and Beth Nugent, and poems by Edward Kleinschmidt, Dabney Stuart, Ralph Burns, as well as outstanding work by several others.

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Contents
Volume 3, Number 4 / Autumn 1990

ESSAYS AND ESSAY-REVIEWS
    Peter Stitt, Editor’s Notes, 614
    Michael Gorra, “The World of A Clockwork Orange,” 630
    Dan Pope, “A Different Kind of Post-Modernism” (review of The Coming of         Triumph, by Rick DeMarinis; If the River Was Whiskey, by T. Coraghessan
        Boyle; and The Universe & Other Fictions, by Paul West), 658
    Floyd Collins, “The Image in Recent American Poetry” (review of Chimera,
        by Carol Frost; Waving from Shore, by Lisel Mueller; Blues If You Want, by
        William Matthews; Honest Water, by Robert Farnsworth; and Great Blue:
        New and Selected Poems
, by Brendan Galvin), 686
    Charles Baxter, “The Donald Barthelme Blues,” 713
    Philip Stevik, “Ridiculous Words,” 738
    Donald J. Greiner, “The Absent Friends of Frederick Busch” (review of
        Harry and Catherine
, by Frederick Busch; and War Babies, by Frederick
        Busch), 746

FICTION
    Tony Ardizzone, “Postcard from Ouarzazate,” 615
    Cindy Bonner, “Starving Artist,” 650
    Daniel Meltzer, “People,” 674
    Brittany Newmark-Shpancer, “The Lost Train,” 728
    Beth Nugent, “Evening Sun,” 755

POETRY
    Jeanne Beaumont, “Honeymoon Cottage” and “Still,” 628
    Edward Kleinschmidt, “Page,” “Practice,” and “Hence,” 644
    Mary Stewart Hammond, “Suffrage,” 657
    James Hejna, “Recursion,” 670
    Dabney Stuart, “Staying in Touch” and “How Loss Works,” 682
    Ralph Burns, “Son,” “When I Hold You Tightly,” and “Memory,” 724
    Denise Thomas, “Driving Ohio” and “One Sunday We Evaluate Our
        Marriage,” 736
    Dean Young, “The Fine Arts,” 744
    Elizabeth Kirschner, “Grandmothers’s Arms,” 776

GRAPHICS
    Betty Tompkins, Paintings, 705