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Spring 1985 Issue

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The Green Room

Staige D. Blackford — The Green Room, Spring 1985

Articles

Wendy W. Fairey — In My Mother's House:Images of A Hollywood Childhood
Anne Hobson Freeman — Hugh
Ward Just — The Costa Brava, 1959
Michael Nelson — The Washington Community Revisited
Pamela Painter — Astral Travel
Spence W. Perry — Vietnam: Mirage and Fitful Dream
Henry Petroski — Numeracy and Literacy: the Two Cultures and the Computer Revolution
Monroe K. Spears — George Garrett and the Historical Novel

Poetry

Hayden Carruth — The Opposing Concepts of Spontaneity And and Ovid, Old Buddy, I Would Discourse With
William Heyen — The Shore, Cherry, and The Coffin
Ed Ochester — Conversation on Lady Day and The Canaries In Uncle Arthur's Basement
Ron Slate — The Partygoers
Dabney Stuart — What He Did With the New Egg and Turning Forty In A New Town
Eleanor Ross Taylor — Sibyl and Enter Daughter

Reprint

Reprint, Spring 1985

Recent Books

Notes on Current Books, Spring 1985

Cookbook

Walker and Claudine Cowen — Cookbook, Spring 1985