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Winter 1986 Issue

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The Green Room

Staige D. Blackford — The Green Room, Winter 1986

Articles

Harry S. Ashmore — Doubling the Standard
James Gordon Bennett — Dependents
Irby B. Cauthen — Family Pieces
John J. Clayton — Comedy of Eros
John Milton Cooper — Theodore Roosevelt: on Clio's Active Service
George Core — Mr. Tate and the Limits of Poetry
Steven G. Kellman — Talking of Talk
Martin Lebowitz — Prophets With Honor
Maximillian E. Novak — The Importance of Probability
Anne Whitney Pierce — No Spring Chicken
Thomas Swiss — "Our Intention Is to Be Wise": Marvin Bill's Poetry and Essays
Miriam Tane — A Failure of American Justice
RONALD WEBER — Newspaper Days
Stephen J. Whitfield — The Jewish Vote

Poetry

Daniel Mark Epstein — Lateness
Janie Fink — For Our Wedding
Alice Fulton — When Bosses Sank Steel Islands
Conrad Hilberry — Sorting the Smoke and Night Sky With Tree
Colette Inez — Gascogne Journey, Red August Letter, and Northern Words
Kim R. Stafford — Under An Oak In California and Walking to the Mailbox
KAREN WHITEHILL — Apology
Gail Wronsky — The Almost Live and Frightened Woman

Reprint

Reprint, Winter 1986

Recent Books

Notes on Current Books, Winter 1986