July 1999

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Volume 87, No. 3
July 1999
The Yale Review

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F E A T U R E S

Is American Poetry American?
Randall Jarrell
Introductory Note by Stephen Burt

Pensione Eolo, Sites of Nostalgia
André Aciman

Mae West
James McCourt

An Imaginary Theater
Kenneth Gross

First Boy
Dorothea Straus

Saving Art
Some Early American Rescuers
Richard T. Arndt

F I C T I O N

Accidents
Peter Cameron

Wool
Richard Stern

P O E T R Y

No Palms
Dorothea Tanning

Harmonie Du Soir
Paradise Cove
Stephen Yenser

The Birds of the Holy Land
The New World
Daniel Hall

Matron
Gwen Head

Benton’s Clouds
David Baker

Birds of Prayer
Mark Bibbins

Lao Tzu Rebuked
Barry Goldensohn

Greens
Jody Gladding

My Father at Prades
D. Nurkse

Little Sister
Elizabeth Macklin

The Jinn
Eric Ormsby

Bird: A Memoir
Susan Mitchell

R E V I E W S

Reading Montale
William Weaver

One of Those Uncommon Geniuses
Howard R. Lamar

Dancing Through Pain
Molly McQuade

Fiction In Review
The Cartoon Strip As Novel
John Crowley

Poetry In Review
Eavan Boland & W. S. Merwin
Michael Thurston

Recordings In Review
Edgard Varèse’s Music of the Future
Dewey Faulkner

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