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Philip Levine
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The Autumn 1991 issue contains a special feature on John Berryman, which includes a painting of Berryman by John Winship, essays by Philip Levine, Mark Jarman, and Paul Mariani, and eight previously unpublished poems by Berryman himself. The Summer issue also showcases paintings by Linda Post, essays by Mark Strand and Kate Wheeler, fiction by Rita Dove and Diana Parker, and poems by Gerald Stern, William Hathaway, and Thomas Rabbitt, as well as outstanding work by several others.

To order a copy of the Autumn 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 4.4.


Contents
Volume 4, Number 4 / Autumn 1991

A SPECIAL FEATURE ON JOHN BERRYMAN
    
Peter Stitt, Editor’s Notes, 527
    John Winship, Painting of John Berryman, 530
    Philip Levine, “Mine Own John Berryman,” 533
    John Berryman, “‘A glory there is over Ireland now,’” “Professional Notes,”
        “On the Death of Yeats,” “To Dylan Thomas,” “Roethke’s Yule,” “To
        His Ghost,” “‘Yes, yes I offered him a cigarette,’” and “Of Poets—to
        Richard Wilbur,” 553
    Mark Jarman, “John & Randall, Randall & John,” 565
    Paul Mariani, “Lowell on Berryman on Lowell,” 581

ESSAYS AND ESSAY-REVIEWS
    Kate Wheeler, “Ringworm,” 617
    Mark Strand, “Views of the Mysterious Hill: The Appearance of Parnassus in         American Poetry,” 669
    Floyd Collins, “Eros and Thanatos” (review of Perdido, by Chase Twichell;         Wolfwatching, by Ted Hughes; The Sacraments of Desire, by Linda Gregg; and
        The Light the Dead See: Selected Poems of Frank Stanford
, ed. by Leon
        Stokesbury), 689

FICTION
    Rita Dove, from Through the Ivory Gate, a novel, 597
    Diana Parker, “Joseph in Egypt,” 639
    Deborah Schupack, “The Brother Ricky Ross Show,” 648

POETRY
    Floyd Skloot, “The Velvet Gentleman,” “Sapphire Fandango,” and “A Softer         Place,” 593
    Gerald Stern, “The Eyes Are Always Brown” and “Ukranian,” 614
    Pattiann Rogers, “The Fancy of Free Will,” “Still Life Abroad,” and “Good         Heavens,” 632
    Denise Thomas, “Leaving It Up to You,” “About Fidelity,” and “New Year’s         Eve,” 644
    Gary Fincke, “Inventing Angels,” 655
    David Wojahn, “Wartime Photos of My Father,” 665
    William Hathaway, “Lost Toys of Justice” and “A Cock for Asclepius,” 680
    Thomas Rabbitt, “Fireflies During the Blackout” and “What One Eye
        Sees,” 684
    Robert Wrigley, “Parents,” 688
    Brendan Galvin, “Against Geneology” and “Nimblejacks,” 706

GRAPHICS
    Linda Post, Paintings, 657