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Summer 1991 Issue

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The Green Room

Staige D. Blackford — The Green Room, Summer 1991

Articles

Harry S. Ashmore — The Liberal's "Commanding Cause"
Thomas Barbash — Spectator
Robert J. Brugger — Redmoor Farewell: the Life and Death of Edmund Ruffin
W. D. Ehrhart — A Common Language
PETER HARRIS — Hunger, Hope, and Nurture: Poetry From Michael Ryan, the Chinese Democracy Movement, and Maxine Kumi
John T. Irwin — The Journey to the South: Poe, Borges, and Faulkner
David H. Lynn — Telling Irony: Peter Taylor's Later Stories
Jeffrey Meyers — "SEEN EVERYTHING, KNOWS EVERYTHING"
Daniel T. O'Hara — Poetry and Phantasmagoria
Sanford Pinsker — William Faulkner and My Middle East Problem
Robert Schultz — The Most Beautiful Day of the Year
Sol Stein — Two Cats
KAREN WHITEHILL — "A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH"
Calhoun Winton — The Two Sides of Henry Fielding

Poetry

MICHAEL CHITWOOD — Photographs From the Mountain Empire
Peter Cooley — Rhapsode
Elizabeth Dodd — Like Memory, Caverns
Mary Oliver — A Bitterness, Wings, The Pinewoods, and When Death Comes
Ruth Porritt — Where Such A Thing As They Heard Comes From
Terese Svoboda — Baiyer River, Papua New Guinea and Sudanese Civil Sonnet

Reprint

Reprint, Summer 1991

Recent Books

Notes on Current Books, Summer 1991