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Spring 1988 Issue

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The Green Room

Staige D. Blackford — The Green Room, Spring 1988

Essay

Leslie W. Dunbar — A Southerner Confronting the South

Articles

James Gordon Bennett — Pacific Theater
Robert J. Brugger — Interstate Comity: A New Monument to Jefferson
Arthur D. Casciato — The Making of A Novelist
Vincent Fitzpatrick — The Lady and the Tiger
PETER HARRIS — Poetry Chronicle: Four Salvers Salvaging: New Work By Voigt, Olds, Dove, and Mchugh
Richard H. King — Politics and Literature: the Southern Case
Arthur F. Kinney — Flannery O'Connor and the Art of the Holy
David Lamb — The African Fourth Estate
Peter Meinke — Doubles
Nancy Huddleston Packer — The Man Who Said No
Anne Whitney Pierce — Remarkable
Sanford Pinsker — More News From Mr. Epstein's Neighborhood
Mildred Raynolds Trivers — The Storm God

Poetry

Ken Dola — Opal Creek
Stuart Downs — Just Reflected
Beckian Fritz Goldberg — First Love
Mark Halliday — Grief
Debra Nystrom — Silk
Ira Sadoff — Civil Rights, Emotional Traffic, and After Dreaming
Mark Swanson — The Stand and Thirst

Reprint

Reprint, Spring 1988

Recent Books

Notes on Current Books, Spring 1988