Spring 1981

Volume 57, Number 2

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The Green Room

Staige D. Blackford — The Green Room, Spring 1981

Articles

Jane McDill Anderson — Anxieties and Assurances
John Bovey — Ernestine
Irby B. Cauthen — Shakespearean Tragedy and the Nostalgic Vision
Carl N. Degler — Rethinking Post-Civil War History
Leslie W. Dunbar — A Tract of Sound and Theory
William C. Havard — Now Is the Time for All Good Persons ....
Lamar Herein — Her Journey Westward
Bernard P. Kiernan — The Myth of Peace Through Strength
Richard H. King — Two Lights That Failed
Townsend Ludington — A Major Biography of A Major (?) Poet
Margaret Miller — Angels and Monsters of Feminist Fiction
James A. Nathan — Zbigscam: U.S. Foreign Policy, 1976-80
Samuel Pickering — The Books I Left Behind
Louis D. Rubin — "YOU COULD LOOK IT UP"

Poetry

Chris Bursk — Handpuppets
Forough Farrokhzad — From Darkness and Leaving: the Poem
Albert Goldbarth — Jan. 31st -- 31 Yrs. and Roof & Writing
Daniel Halpern — Sunday Avenue and Night Scene
Tom Hansen — Another Country
Frederick Morgan — The Murder
Mary Ruefle — As When I Did Not Exist
Laurie Sheck — Scar and KÄThe Kollwitz
Brian Swann — Touch

Reprint

Reprint, Spring 1981

Recent Books

Notes on Current Books, Spring 1981

Cookbook

Walker and Claudine Cowen — Cookbook, Spring 1981