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… As in Saul Steinberg’s whimsical sketches, we spin out a complexly dense fabric of sounds, letters, sentences, and … paradigm has been a while in the making. As Hayden White points out in Tropics of Discourse , Vico was perhaps the … self, the solidity of personal identity disappeared into a complex web of interpersonal communications. From Hegel down …

… these poems guide us anyway. Charles Wright’s poetry has become a kind of touchstone for American literature. He has … we can hold. Indeed, Oblivion Banjo in the hand reveals the weight of Wright’s selected works in a physical … reads or finds poems. I don’t want to assume reader or audience in any academic sense, but in a deeper way; is there …

… number, which he called, summoning her worried husband to come. Her husband came, and before she gave him a word of … into the genetic code: the body tells itself to fail and to die. Many knew, too, that outside this programmed decline, … even a name—that might hold us to that doubtful duty. 107-126 By Drew Johnson …

… East during World War II: a turf battle between at least 20 competing intelligence and military bureaucracies. Rival … of that history with this acute analysis. The Warrior Generals: Combat Leadership in the Civil War, by Thomas B.Buell. … absurd to preach the virtues of Christian poverty to the medieval peasant who lived and died in the midst of it, so the …

… of La Salle. By Frances Gaither. New York: Henry Holt and Company. $3.00. La Salle. By L. V. Jacks, New York: Charles … went into the wilderness, there to teach and often to die. The curtain fell upon the drama long ago, and Francis … in so many periods of history, had common aims, but also points on which agreement could not be. Of these were …