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INDEX TO VOLUME XLVIII AUTHORS Baer, William: The Cuban Girl (poem) A Fine and Private View (review) .. 485 Fromm, Harold: O, Paglia Mia! (re- Balée, Susan: Two-Part Harmony (review) view) Postmodern Ecologizing: Circum- Bawer, Bruce: Violated by Ideas: Re- ference Without a Center (review) . 691 flections on Literature in an Age of Goedicke, Patricia: Montana Pears Identity Politics (poem) Greening, John: Letter from England . Poetry Chronicle Bell, Madison Smartt: Miroir Danjere. 587 Grosholz, Emily: Tour of the Flower Bly, Robert: A Family Picture; Reading Depot at Sanary (poem) Silence in the Snowy Fields, The Boy Gwynn, R.S.: Make the World Cohere Looking for His Parents (poems) ... 425 (review) Bogin, Nina: Seven Hawks; The Or- Haines, John: The Ancestors; Rodin: chards of Vandoncourt; Let’s Share The Gates of Hell; Clouds at 30,000 the Frugal Meal; There’s No Hour; Feet (poems) Stockholm, Summer 1990 (poems) . Poetry Chronicle Buckley, Christopher: Dreaming the Henley, Jim: Ozymandias III (poem) Clouds of 1956 (poem) Hoey, Allen: The Winter of Little Snow Bowers, Neal: The Age of Surrender (poem) (poem) Hooper, Patricia: The Best Hour Calbert, Cathleen: Silent Men (poem) . 619 (poem) Cardullo, Bert: Schindler’s Miss ..... 121 Hornby, Richard: Aging Actresses ... Mirabile visu et dictu Mathematical Drama Spanish and American LA’s 99-Seat Theatre Family Affairs Cross-Gender Casting Chapman, Robin S.: The Blue Hat Hyett, Barbara Helfgott: Two Snakes (poem) (poem) Clark, Robert S.: Music Chronicle ... Davis, Alan: The Purest Wilderness: Jarman, Mark: The Primal Storyteller Feasting and Fasting in Fiction (re- (review) view) Kooser, Ted: Poet; Lawn Chairs; A Day, Lucille: In the Hidden Garden: Midwinter Letter (poems) Two Translations of the Song of Krist, Gary: Comedy (review) Songs g Lieberman, Laurence: Romp of the Disch, Thomas M.: Poetry Chronicle . 339 Cave Healer (poem) The Evidence of Things Not Seen Loughery, John: Faded Glory (review) Redefining an Art Form Dobyns, Stephen: When a Friend; Rat- Just Deserts tletrap (poems) American _‘T reasures: Whistler, Dooley, David: Bloom and the Canon Stettheimer, Scully (review) McDowell, Robert: When Baseball Epstein, Joseph: Elizabeth Bishop: Made Out Never a Bridesmaid MacInnes, Mairi: The Ghostwriter The Pleasures of Reading (poem) Filbin, Thomas: Why Ask Why? (re- Makuck, Peter: Costly Habits (story) view) Mason, David: The Country I Remem- Fisk, Josiah: Houston Grand Opera .. 287 ber: A Narrative (poem) Flower, Dean: Poe, Borges, and the Louis Simpson’s Singular Charm (re- Analytic Detective Story (review) ... 153 702 THE HUDSON REVIEW The Poetry of Life and the Life of Siegel, Marcia B.: Revivals as Forgeries Poetry Murphy, Timothy: Hadrian Bereaved; The Mustard Seed Garden; The Thomas, Randolph: May Prescott (sto- Drunken Sage (poems) ry) Nurkse, D.: Peace after Long Sickness; Tuohy, Frank: Bennett Award Accep- Crossing the Ark Mountains (poems) . tance Speech, 1994 Omanson, Bradley: Class (poem) Tuttleton, James W.: Getting to Know Pfluger, Carl: Progress, Irony and Hu- Edith (review) man Sacrifice Rehabilitating Victorian Values (re- Phillips, Robert: Spinach Days (poem) . 611 view) Potter, Ellen: Native Intelligence (story) . 433 Van Walleghen, Michael: The Last Ne- Pritchard, William H.: Appreciating anderthal; Ghost (poems) Kingsley Amis (review) i3 Looking Back at Lessing (review) .. 3 Watson, George: The Art of Disagree- Reading Joseph Epstein (review) ... ment: C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) .... Rhodenbaugh, Suzanne: Preparing for Wilhelmus, Tom: Ranches of Isolation Immortality (poem) (review) Rogers, Pattiann: The Consequences Without Color: Zora Neale Hurston of Death (poem) (review) Schultz, Robert: When Men Look at Wolf, Michele: Keep Going; The Di- Women: Sex in an Age of Theory . 365 orama; Seizure (poems) BOOKS REVIEWED (Listed by Author) Amis, Martin: The Information (Gary Bunting, Basil: Complete Poems (John Krist) Greening) Benstock, Shari: No Gifts from Chance: A Burns, Ken and Geoffrey Ward: Base- Biography of Edith Wharton (James W. ball: An Illustrated History (Robert Tuttleton) McDowell) Bishop, Elizabeth: One Art: Letters, se- Cabral de Melo Neto, Joao: Selected lected and ed. by Robert Giroux Poetry, 1937-1990, ed. by Djelal Ka- (Joseph Epstein) dir (John Haines) Bloch, Ariel and Chana Bloch, trans.: Carter, Stephen L.: The Culture of Dis- The Song of Songs: A New Translation belief: How American Law and Politics with an Introduction and Commentary Trivialize Religious Devotion (Bruce (Lucille Day) PINE Hao bo pie bee kaise Stweye 397 Bloch, Chana and Ariel Bloch, trans.: Christopher, Nicholas: 5° and Other The Song of Songs: A New Translation Poems (John Greening) .......... 508 with an Introduction and Commentary Coetzee, J.M.: The Master of Petersburg (Lucille Day) (Dean Flower) Bloom, Harold: The Western Canon Dillard, Annie: Mornings Like This: (EAE TIBOR) oon 5 058 os csaves 333 Found Poems (John Haines) Boyd, William: The Blue Afternoon (Gary Disch, Thomas M.: The Priest: A Gothic Krist) Romance (Thomas Filbin) Brazeau, Peter and Gary Fountain: Re- Doctorow, E.L.: The Waterworks (Tom membering Elizabeth Bishop: An Oral Wilhelmus) Biography (Joseph Epstein) Dove, Rita: The Darker Face of the Earth: Brookner, Anita: A Private View (Dean A Verse Play (Thomas M. Disch) ... 346 Flower) Dwight, Eleanor: Edith Wharton: An Ex- Buell, Lawrence: The Environmental traordinary Life (James W. Tuttleton) Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture Epstein, Joseph: With My Trousers Rolled (Harold Fromm) (William H. Pritchard) INDEX TO VOLUME XLVIII 703 Falk, Marcia, trans.: The Song of Songs: Levine, Philip: The Simple Truth (John A New Translation; The Song of Songs: CRCOTHND oe < os dba cc ict ceeeeen e 508 A New Translation and Interpretation McBreen, Joan: A Walled Garden in (Lucille Day) Moylough (John Haines) Fountain, Gary and Peter Brazeau: Re- McCarthy, Cormac: The Crossing (Tom membering Elizabeth Bishop: An Oral Wilhelmus) Biography (Joseph Epstein) McDonald, Walter: Counting Survivors Fussell, Paul: The Anti-Egotist: Kingsley (John Haines) Amis, Man of Letters (William H. Prit- Mahfouz, Naguib: Arabian Nights and chard) Days, trans. by Denys Johnson-Davies Ginsberg, Allen: Cosmopolitan Greetings: (Alan Davis) Poems 1986-1992 Markides, Kyriacos C.: Riding with the Goodman, Susan: Edith Wharton’s Inner Lion: In Search of Mystical Christianity Circle (James W. Tuttleton) (Bruce Bawer) .................. 397 Gordimer, Nadine: None to Accompany Markus, Julia: Dared and Done: The Mar- Me (Alan Davis) riage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Graham, _Jorie: Materialism (R.S. Browning (Susan Balée) Gwynn) Miles, Jack: God: A Biography (Bruce Greger, Debora: Off-Season at the Edge of WROWOT :i)iis'a sc ha dees k's 6 ss ae as 397 the World (John Greening) ....... 508 Millier, Brett C.: Elizabeth Bishop: Life Gunn, Thom: Collected Poems (RS. and the Memory of It (Joseph Epstein) Gwynn) Hacker, Marilyn: Selected Poems (Thom- Moore, Thomas: Soul Mates: Honoring MT RMEINY ¢ oen dss 005k bp cen the Mysteries of Love and Relationship Winter Numbers (Thomas M. Disch) . 339 (Bruce Bawer) .................. 397 Heller, Joseph: Closing Time (Alan Moseley, Merritt: Understanding Kings- Davis) ley Amis (William H. Pritchard) Helpern, Alice: The Technique of Martha O’Brien, Edna: House of Splendid Isola- Graham (Marcia B. Siegel) tion (Tom Wilhelmus) Himmeifarb, Gertrude: The De-Moral- O’Brien, Tim: In the Lake of the Woods ization of Society (James W. Tuttle- CARRE IVEY oedcn thes cece cccce | | OS narrpeae ee 388 Paglia, Camille: Sexual Personae (Har- Howatch, Susan: Absolute Truths Se ) ar ee (Bruce Bawer) Vamps and Tramps: New Essays (Har- Hudgins, Andrew: The Glass Hammer OM PRYOR) on. csi ccs ewcc cease 308 Cemomas M. Disch) ...........2500% 339 Pamuk, Orhan: The Black Book, trans. Hurston, Zora Neale: Novels and Stories; by Giineli Gin (Dean Flower) .... 485 The Complete Stories (Tom Wilhel- Peck, M. Scott: The Road Less Traveled: mus) A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Irwin, John T.: The Mystery to a Solution: Values and Spiritual Growth (Bruce Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Le | ES ey er 397 Story (Dean Flower) Phillips, Robert: Breakdown Lane (R.S. John Paul II, Pope: Crossing the Thresh- Gwynn) old of Hope (Bruce Bawer) ........ 397 Rafferty, Charles: The Man on the Tower Kinnell, Galway: Imperfect Thirst (Thom- (John Haines) Me NESTE) «ois 5. oo cece wecc eereler See Ranke-Heinemann, Uta: Putting Away Kooser, Ted: Weather Central (John Childish Things: The Virgin Birth, the ONIN $66. 6.506: da, 58S acs 508 Empty Tomb, and Other Fairy Tales You Kumin, Maxine: Women, Animals, and Don’t Need to Believe to Have a Living Vegetables: Essays and Stories (Tom Faith (Bruce Bawer) ............. 397 Wilhelmus) Rogers, Pattiann: Firekeeper: New and Kung, Hans: Credo (Bruce Bawer) Selected Poems (Thomas M. Disch) .. 339 Lauterbach, Ann: And For Example Roscoe, Will: Queer Spirits: A Gay Men’s (Thomas M. Disch) Myth Book (Bruce Bawer) ......... 397 Lessing, Doris: Under My Skin (William Rushdie, Salman: East, West (Dean ROP RMNEEIOED cise ccesecuasdnes 317 Flower) 704 THE HUDSON REVIEW Salter, Mary Jo: Sunday Skaters (Thom- Tate, James: Worshipful Company of as M. Disch) Fletchers (Thomas M. Disch) pease 339 Salwak, Dale: Kingsley Amis: Tillinghast, Richard: The Stone Cutter’s Novelist (William H. Pritchard) .... 137 Hand (John Haines) Schine, Cathleen: The Love Letter (Gary Trevor, William: Felicia’s Journey (Dean Krist) Flower) Schurmann, Franz: American Soul Ward, Geoffrey and Ken Burns: Base- (Bruce Bawer) ball: An Illustrated History (Robert Simpson, Louis: The King My Father's McDowell) Wreck (David Mason) Washington, Peter: Madame Blavatsky’s Ships Going into the Blue (David Ma- Baboon: A History of the Mystics, Medi- son) Skloot, Floyd: Music Appreciation (John ums, and Misfits Who Brought Spir- ROPOEMMEMED acaie ost apnb ss nba ike owitis 508 itualism to America (Thomas M. Smiley, Jane: Moo (Gary Krist) Spong, The Rt. Rev. John Shelby: Res- Williams, C.K.: Selected Poems (Thomas urrection: Myth or Fact? (Bruce M. Disch) Williamson, Marianne: IJlluminata: States, Bert O.: Dreaming and Storytell- Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage ing (Mark Jarman) (Bruce Bawer) Sumner, Melanie: Polite Society (Gary Wojahn, David: Late Empire (Thomas M. 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