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The Spring 1991 issue showcases paintings by Rob Evans, essays by Harold Bloom and Louis Simpson, fiction by Nancy Roberts and Leslie Pietrzyk, and poems by David Wojahn, Linda Pastan, Thomas Rabbitt, as well as outstanding work by several others.

To order a copy of the Spring 1991 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 4.2.


Contents
Volume 4, Number 2 / Spring 1991

ESSAYS AND ESSAY-REVIEWS
    Peter Stitt, Editor’s Notes, 191
    Louis Simpson, “The Memorial and the Garden,” 193
    Michael Atkinson, “Staging the Disappearance of Sherlock Holmes: The         Aesthetics of Absence in ‘The Final Problem,’” 206
    Tony Rothman, “Sakharov: A Physicist and His Memoirs,” 225
    Harold Bloom, “Mark Strand” (review of The Continuous Life, by Mark
        Strand), 247
    Benjamin Griffith, “Caravanning Across the Bozart Sahara with Eight
        Pounds of Southern Culture” (review of Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, ed.
        by Charles Reagan Wilson and William Ferris; A Turn in the South, by V. S.         Naipaul; and Slavery and Freedom: An Interpretation of the Old South, by
        James Oakes), 264
    Steven G. Kellerman, “Microchips Off the Old Writer’s Block” (review of
        Writer’s Block
, by Zachary Leader; The Death of Literature, by Alvin Kernan;
        and A Writer’s Reality, by Mario Vargal Llosa), 283
    Floyd Collins, “Variations on the Journey Motif” (review of Splitting and
        Binding
, by Pattiann Rogers; Late in the Millennium, by Deborah Digges;
        Sigodlin
, by Robert Morgan; Operation Memory, by David Lehman; and In
        the Room We Share
, by Louis Simpson), 309

FICTION
    Nancy Roberts, “Another Garden Party,” 201
    Leslie Pietrzyk, “Tituba Speaks,” 219
    Darrell Spencer, “Loose in the Mail,” 239
    Jack Driscoll, “Bud and Goliath in the Batting Cage,” 294
    Deborah Rose O’Neal, “Sure of the Fall,” 336

POETRY
    Carol Frost, “The Torturer’s Horse,” 198
    Richard Frost, “The Torturer’s Horse,” 199
    Linda Pastan, “Balance,” “Misreading Housman,” and “Topiary Gardens,”
        215
    David Wojahn, “Hive Keepers,” 237
    Donald Hall, “My Life and Times: First Series,” 257
    Richard Lyons, “The Thousands of Little Fires,” 276
    Daniel Hoffman, “A Pile of Rocks” and “A Wall of Stone,” 292
    Thomas Rabbitt, “Blue Lights,” “For Thomas Stearns Eliot on the Occasion
        of His One Hundredth Birthday,” and “At Cantalupe the Pope,” 330

GRAPHICS
    Rob Evans, Paintings, 249