F E A T U R E S

Two Writers' Beginnings
Richard H. Brodhead

Bright Stones
An Exchange of Letters
Hart Crane & Jean Toomer
Introduction and Notes by Langdon Hammer

Orange
Alexander Theroux

Alberto's Tantrum
James Lord

Henry's Understanding
Robert Giroux

Kepler's Children
Wyn Wachhorst

F I C T I O N

D-Day
Paul Brodeur


Structure
Sheila Kohler


P O E T R Y

Owl
John Hollander

Days of 1994: Alexandrians
The Boy

Marilyn Hacker

The Full Acreage of Mourning
Carl Phillips

Love and Fame
John Burt

Making a Voice

Walter Pavlich

Under Water
James Richardson

Hawthorne and the Elephant

Robert Bly

Three Ways of Looking at God

Robin Robertson

R E V I E W S

Portraits of the Past
Mary Lefkowitz

Early Modern Women and the Spectacles of Scholarship
Maureen Quilligan

Fiction in Review
The Novel and Music: Notes on Kazuo Ishiguro
Ned Rorem

Poetry in Review
Inflections and Innuendos: Seven Poets
Willard Spiegelman

Recordings in Review

The Art of the Song
Brian Zeger