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In This Issue
Floyd Skloot
Warren Goldstein
Louis Simpson
Victor Strandberg
Floyd Collins
Steven G. Kellman
Sanford Pinsker
Geoff Schmidt
Helen Norris
E. S. Goldman
Linda Pastan
Paul Zimmer
David Kirby
Page Dougherty Delano
William Matthews
Donald Hall
Ann Neelon
David St. John
Gary Fincke
Alvin Greenberg
Marvin Bell
Alan Soldofsky
David Watts
Vincent Scilla
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The Summer 1992 issue, which has come to be known as “The Baseball
Issue,” is largely about just that, baseball. It showcases paintings
by Vincent Scilla, essays by Floyd Skloot and Louis Simpson, fiction
by Geoff Schmidt and Helen Norris, and poems by Paul Zimmer, Donald
Hall, and William Matthews, as well as outstanding work by several others.
To order a copy of the Summer 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 5.3.
Contents
Volume 5, Number 3 / Summer 1992
ESSAYS AND ESSAY-REVIEWS
Peter Stitt, Editor’s
Notes, 375
Floyd Skloot,
“Trivia Tea: Baseball as Balm,” 377
Warren Goldstein,
“Inside Baseball,” 410
Louis Simpson,
“Going Back,” 462
Victor Strandberg,
“Robert Penn Warren and the Search for Design,” 480
Floyd Collins,
“The Sublime and the Quotidian” (review of Bountiful,
by
Michael
Waters; Twenty Colors, by Elizabeth Kirschner; You Won’t
Remember
This,
by Michael Dennis Browne; and The Astonished Hours, by Peter
Cooley),
514
Steven G. Kellman,
“Fighting Trim” (review of Outerbridge Reach, by Robert
Stone;
Christopher and Alexandra, by Maggie Gee; Aquamarine,
by Carol Anshaw;
and Scar Lover, by Harry Crews), 530
Sanford Pinsker,
“What We Talk About When We Talk About Lit” (review
of
The Deconstruction of Literature: Criticism After Auschwitz,
by David H.
Hirsch),
540
FICTION
Geoff Schmidt,
“The Man Who Saved Ted Williams from Death,” 392
Helen Norris,
“The Cracker Man,” 441
E. S. Goldman, “Markevitch,”
500
POETRY
Linda Pastan,
“Baseball,” 389
Paul Zimmer, “Raw
and Absolute” and “Remembering Power Hitters,” 390
David Kirby, “Eine
Götterdämmerung in Mudville,” 405
Page Dougherty
Delano, “Naming the Body,” 406
William Matthews,
“Lost Time for Sale,” 423
Donald Hall, “The
Fourth Inning,” “The Fifth Inning,” and “The Eighth
Inning,”
424
Ann Neelon, “World
Series,” 460
David St. John,
“My Grandfather’s Cap,” 478
Gary Fincke, “Class
A, Salem, The Rookie League,” 498
Alvin Greenberg, “hurry
back,” 513
Marvin Bell, “from
The Book of the Dead Man, ” 528
Alan Soldofsky,
“Chin Music,” 539
David Watts, “Little
League Tryouts,” 547
GRAPHICS
Vincent Scilla,
Paintings, 433
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