| ESSAYS |
| John L. Idol |
Ernest Hemingway and Thomas Wolfe |
| George Monteiro |
"I Always Keep Seeing a Light as I Talk with Him": Limning the Robert Frost/Ridgely Torrence Relationship |
| Fredrica K. Bartz |
Humboldt's Gift and the Myth of the Artist in America |
| FICTION |
| Stephen Dixon |
The Shirt |
| Edward McShane |
Legs |
| Charlotte K. Haigh |
Sentence for a Nice Lady |
| Susan Lohafer |
Eldorado |
| Laurie Pons |
Jody Baxter Day |
| Barbara Rich |
Mobility |
| S.F. Mickle |
The Queen of Hearts |
| Lee K. Abbott, Jr. |
We Get Smashed and Our Endings Are Swift |
| POETRY |
| William Aarnes |
Going Down to Make Coffee |
| Two Poems by Laurence Lieberman |
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| Two Poems by F.C. Rosenberger |
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| Norman Nathan |
The Spirit in Ink and Colors |
| Jan Chisholm |
Circe's Lover |
| Three Poems by Marlene Youmans |
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| Mary Vogt |
Scarecro |
| REVIEWS |
| William E. Cain |
The End of Literary Theory |
| Jerome Klinkowitz |
Donald Barthelme's Fiction: The Ironist Saved From Drowning by Charles Molesworth |
| John L. Idol |
Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Times by James R. Mellow; Nathaniel Hawthorne: The English Experience, 1854-1864 by Raymona E. Hull |
| Frederick W. Shilstone |
Byron's Letters and Journals. Vol. XI ("For Freedom's Battle"),ed. Leslie A. Marchand; Byron's Letters and Journals. Vol. XII ("The Trouble of an Index"), ed. Leslie A. Marchand |
| Hallman B. Bryant |
Lady Tennyson's Journal ed. James O. Hogue |
