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Winter 1997 Issue

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The Green Room

Staige D. Blackford — The Green Room, Winter 1997

Articles

RAWDON DALRYMPLE — Continental Drift: the Case of Australia
Leslie W. Dunbar — A City Too Busy to Hate?
W. D. Ehrhart — "WHAT GRACE IS FOUND IN SO MUCH LOSS?"
Morris Freedman — The Fall of Charlie Van Doren
Frank E. Grizzard, Jr. — STEVENSON'S "WIDE AND STARRY SKY"
Michael Knight — Amelia Earhart's Coat: for Blair's Grandmother
Susie Mee — Death, Dancing, and Doughnut Holes
BILL OLIVER — Companion
Sanford Pinsker — MUSING ABOUT ORWELL'S "POLITICS AND THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE"?50 YEARS LATER
Gerald Reilly — Convention
R. C. Smith — Prince Edward County: Revisited and Revitalized
Allen Tullos — The South Before the Movement
Stephen J. Whitfield — Spellbound

Fiction

Richard Rubin — Football Season

Poetry

HENRY HART — The Rooster Mask
Larry Levis — Elegy for Poe With the Music of A Carnival Inside It
Mekeel Mcbride — Friend Blue Snake
Jane Shore — Washing the Streets of Holland and Music Minus One
Larissa Szporluk — Halo Formation, 10 Remembers, and Axiom of Maria
Charles Wright — Ars Poetica II, Cicada Blue, and All Landscape Is Abstract, and Tends to Repeat Itself

Reprint

Reprint, Winter 1997

Recent Books

Notes on Current Books, Winter 1997