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Peter Stitt
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Patricia Margerison
Gerald Shapiro
Frederick Busch
Jill McCorkle
Stanley Kunitz
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Christopher Howell
Sharon Bryan
William Olsen
Charles Tomlinson
Vuyelwa Carlin
Louis Jenkins
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Randall Deihl









The Spring 1992 issue showcases paintings by Randall Deihl, an interview with Stanley Kunitz, essays by Louis Simpson and W. S. Di Piero, fiction by Gerald Shapiro and Jill McCorkle, and poems by Gerald Stern, Christopher Howell, and R. T. Smith, as well as outstanding work by several others.

To order a copy of the Spring 1992 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 5.2.


Contents
Volume 5, Number 2 / Spring 1992

ESSAYS AND ESSAY-REVIEWS
    Peter Stitt, Editor’s Notes, 191
    Peter Stitt, “An Interview with Stanley Kunitz,” 193
    Don Colburn, “A Feeling fro Light and Shade: John Keats and His ‘Ode to
        a Nightingale,’” 216
    Floyd Collins, “Elegiac Voices” (review of Rescue the Perishing, by Gibbons
        Ruark; Star Ledger, by Lynda Hull; and Apocrypha, by Eric Pankey), 240
    Louis Simpson, “Moody Colonials,” 253
    W. S. Di Piero, “Seeker and Finder: Minor White and Lee Friedlander,” 331
    Steven G. Kellman, “Novelists Trade Secrets” (review of Time’s Arrow, Or the         Nature of the Offense, by Martin Amis; Wilderness, by Dennis Danvers; The
        Sweet Hereafter
, by Russell Banks; and Almanac of the Dead, by Leslie
        Marmon Silko), 345

FICTION
    Patricia Margerison, “Pictures in Black and White,” 273
    Gerald Shapiro, “The Marine Mammal Guy,” 286
    Frederick Busch, “Bread,” 303
    Jill McCorkle, “Sleeping Beauty, Revisited,” 319

POETRY
    Stanley Kunitz, “Chariot,” 210
    Gerald Stern, “Two Daws,” 211
    R. T. Smith, “Conviction” and “Angels,” 214
    Frederick Marchant, “Bristlecone,” 239
    Christopher Howell, “The Pipes of Oblivion” and “Event,” 251
    Sharon Bryan, “Ultrasound” and “What Biology Is All About,” 283
    William Olsen, “After Chartres,” 300
    Charles Tomlinson, “The House on the Susquehanna,” 318
    Vuyelwa Carlin, “Ash” and “The Blindness,” 329
    Louis Jenkins, “Spring Break-Up,” 344
    Jeanne Beaumont, “Mr. Ripley Writes a Preface” and “Mrs. Ripley Gets It
        Off Her Chest,” 355

GRAPHICS
    Randall Deihl, Paintings, 265