Volume 10, Number 1, Spring/Summer 1998
Guest Editor, Mark S. Braley
Special Feature
Richard Wilbur’s World War II Poetry by David Haven Blake, Special Feature Editor
Richard Wilbur: An Interview by Joseph T. Cox
Italy: Maine by Richard Wilbur
Richard Wilbur’s Early Writing: Amherst College and World War II by John Lancaster and Jack W. C. Hagstrom
“Versifying in Earnest”: Richard Wilbur’s War and His Poetry by Joseph T. Cox
Mind and World in Richard Wilbur’s War Poetry by Jewel Spears Brooker
Poetry
The Colonel by Carolyn Forché
Lie #5: That Babe Ruth Pointed Out That Famous Homer by John Gery
On the News of Our Foreign Intervention by John Gery
A State of Grace in Another War Zone by Tia Ballantine
Dien Bien Phu by Bill Lantry
Clueless in Paradise by Rachel Loden
Etudes by Halvard Johnson
American’s Playing Slow-Pitch Softball at an Airbase Near Kunsan, South Korea by Halvard Johnson
End of a Century by Ana Doina
Footnote and Detail by R. S. Carlson
Brian Explains His Anniversary by Beth Simon
Verdun by Daryl Bach
Women on Her Way to Market Colin Morton
Entering War, Being Literal by Gwyn McVay
Artwork
“The Camera is a Shield”: John Hoagland, Combat Photographer by Maggie Jaffe
Photography by John Hoagland
Special Feature
A Conversation with Paul West by Thomas G. McGuire, Special Feature Editor
Three Fictions by Paul West
The Face(s) of War in Paul West’s Fiction by Thomas G. McGuire
Critical Essay
Accommodation and Resistance in Lt. Henry Ossian Flipper’s The Colored Cadet at West Point (1878) by Verner D. Mitchell
When Hamlet Meets the Bomb: The Poetry and Criticism of John Gery by Don Zimmerman
The French Connection or How “Figaro” Saved the American Revolution by Ann Reagan
Depicting the Oblique: Emily Dickinson’s Poetic ResponseTo the American Civil War by Paul R. Cappucci
Personal Essay
A-Bomb, a recollection by Jessie Gatlin
Public Information, a memoir by William R. Weir
Fiction
Missing by Don Kunz
Recall Roster
Mary Borden, The Forbidden Zone, published in 1929, by D. A. Boxwell