October 1999

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Volume 87, No. 4
October 1999
The Yale Review

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F E A T U R E S

Death in Weimar
Fritz Stern

Notes Without Music
Ned Rorem

Technique in Housman
Anthony Hecht

A Footnote to the Skin of Our Teeth
Thornton Wilder
Introductory Note by A. Tappan Wilder

Stones
Charles Fergus

F I C T I O N

Her Unmentionables
Alice Adams

Addenda
Mark Wisniewski

P O E T R Y

Autumn, Love, History
Yehuda Halevi
Yehuda Amichai

Baby’s Breath
Cynthia Zarin

Rembrandt’s Elephant
The Woman in the Last Car
Robert Bly

Uncensored Note to Auden
Jane Mayhall

Air, ‘56
Daniel Halpern

Driving to Provincetown
W. S. Di Piero

Night Air
C. Dale Young

My Wilderness
Carole Satyamurti

Sighting
Michael J. Rosen

My Race
Robert Richman

R E V I E W S

Preparing for Saints
William Weaver

One Traveler
Daniel Hall

Reading W. H. Auden
Ian Sansom

Cooler by the Lake
Patricia C. Willis

Fiction in Review
The Long-Awaited Novel by Ralph Ellison
Joanna Scott

Poetry in Review
Miles, Wright, Williams
Carol Muske

Recordings in Review
The Poulenc Centenary
Benjamin Ivry

Film in Review
Ghosts of the City: Films of Ernie Gehr
Gilberto Perez

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