Autumn 1990 Issue

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The Green Room

Staige D. Blackford — The Green Room, Autumn 1990

Articles

Suzanne Hunter Brown — Mothers Against Drunk Driving
Robert Olen Butler — Fairy Tale
John A. Glusman — Heroes and Sons: Coming to Terms
BERNICE GROHSKOPF — “I’ll Be a Farmer”: Boyhood Letters of William James
Greg Johnson — "ON THE EDGE OF AN ABYSS": THE WRITER AS INSOMNIAC
David H. Lynn — Hem, Hadley, and Paris
George Mannejc — Masquerade
Jeffrey Meyers — Lawrence Unveiled
Darden Asbury Pyron — A Southern Mandarin
PAUL ROAZEN — Reflections on Edmund Burke
DAVID RUBIN — A Crazy-Quilt Map
George Watson — Shakespeare and the Norman Conquest: English In the Elizabethan Theatre
Stephen J. Whitfield — The Stunt Man: Abbie Hoffman (1936—1989)
Delsa Winer — About Love
Robert D. Zaretsky — Look Back In Anguish

Poetry

Angela Ball — Materials and A Moon At Maximum Eclipse
Jane Brox — Waiting Tables
Victor M. Depta — Telephone Call and Hunter's Moon
Lawrence Raab — Ghost Stories and Something Sensible About Desire
Kenneth Rosen — Fire
Ira Sadoff — I Join the Sparrows
Roger Shillings — Bird Feeder In the Rain
Roger Skillings — The Way Down
Robert Wrigley — Invisible Men

Reprint

Reprint, Autumn 1990

Recent Books

Notes on Current Books, Autumn 1990