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Spring 1987 Issue

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The Green Room

Staige D. Blackford — The Green Room, Spring 1987

Articles

Brad Conard — Schmoozing
Walter Cummins — Oxfords
W. D. Ehrhart — Soldier-Poets of the Vietnam War
Russell Fraser — Wadi-Bashing In Arabia Deserta
George Garrett — My Two One-Eyed Coaches
Hugh Davis Graham — The Paradox of Eleanor Roosevelt: Alcoholism's Child
Robert Mason — His Brother Joe 1914?1964
Philip L. Merkel — The Robber Baron As Hero
Douglas Lane Patey — Some Versions of Paradise
Kenneth M. Thompson — The Decline of American Foreign Policy
Stephen J. Whitfield — Understanding Backward
Steve Yarbrough — The Formula

Poetry

Ketih Althaus — The View
Karin Ash — Cornucopias
Sharon Davie — Harmony
W. D. Ehrhart — Last Flight Out From the War Zone, For Mrs. Na, and Water
Joyce Carol Oates — Lost Creek and Island, 1949
Ellen Bryant Voigt — The Field Trip, The Visitor, At the Movie: Virginia, 1956, and Good News

Reprint

Reprint, Spring 1987

Recent Books

Notes on Current Books, Spring 1987