Spring 1983 Issue

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The Green Room

Staige D. Blackford — The Green Room, Spring 1983

Articles

Adda B. Bozeman — Decline of the West? Spengler Reconsidered
J. A. S. Evans — The Glory That Was Greece
George Garrett — Laughter In the Dark and Other Things
Paul M. Gaston — C. Vann Woodward, Southern Historian
Paula A. Keisler — The Bouzouki
Bernard P. Kiernan — The Conservative Illusion
Arthur F. Kinney — In Search of Flannery O'Connor
David Kirby — America on the Couch
Raymond Nelson — The Mirror Up to Nature
T. R. Pearson — Kindred
Max Putzel — Faulkner's Memphis Stories
Bernard C. Schoenfeld — Aiken, Agee, and Sandburg: A Memoir
Thomas Swiss — "BETWEEN ROMANCE AND REALITY"

Poetry

Marylin Butler — Camping Out and My Father's Canary
Stephen Dunn — The Landscape
Linda Gregerson — "HALFE A YARD OF REDE SEA"
Harvey Gross — I Believe, I Believe
Richard Jones — The Bell
Shirley Kaufman — Stones, Wind, and Autumn Crocus
SYDNEY LEA — From Another Shore
Jack Myers — As Long As You're Happy
Robert Pack — At the Terminal
Pattiann Rogers — The Second Witness
John Skoyles — White Nights

Reprint

Reprint, Spring 1983

Recent Books

Notes on Current Books, Spring 1983

Book Reviews

George C. Freeman, Jr. — “The Ultimate Pragmatist”

Cookbook

Walker and Claudine Cowen — Cookbook, Spring 1983