F E A T U R E S
On Some Functions of Literature
Umberto Eco
Occasions and Entries
Pages for the Public, Pages from a Diary
Ned Rorem
Letters to John Ashbery, 1958
Edited with a note by William Corbett
James Schuyler
A Prose Writer Looks at Poets
Jean McGarry
Innovation in the Visual Arts
James Trilling
F I C T I O N
Getting Heavy with Fate
Patrick Ryan
P O E T R Y
Three Poems of Three Shrines
Gary Snyder
Poem with Refrain
Don’t You Admire Me?
Irving Feldman
Every Time the Mountains
A World of Differences
Vicki Hearne
The Dark Autumn Nights
Robert Bly
Tree of Mirrors
Henry Hart
My Mother’s Last Christmas Card, Unsent
Michael Spence
Vox
Katharine Whitcomb
The Dead
Dolsy Smith
Umbrella
Tom Healy
The Prop
Juliet Mattila
R E V I E W S
History Starts Today
John Morton Blum
A Radical World View
Georgina Kleege
Fiction in Review
Jim Crace
David Galef
Poetry in Review
Donald Justice
Willard Spiegelman
Recordings in Review
Sir Thomas Beecham
Dewey Faulkner