Contents
The Words
Joseph Bruchac
The Eye of Bolotianyk
Roy S. Wolper
The Western as Comic Literature: Robert Flynn’s North to Yesterday
Michael Cleary
A Documentary Fantasy: Jean-Luc Godard’s La Chinoise
Michael Anderegg
Four Translations of Poems by Francis Jammes
Antony Oldknow
Emerson’s “History”: From Biography to Autobiography
Lewis O. Saum
Traffic
Walter Sanders
A Prize-Winning Poet Reads: 11 A.M.
Mary Balazs
City Lights in North Dakota
Dennis Sorenson
Howl in High School
Jeffrey Bartlett
Allen Ginsberg Today
Jeffrey Bartlett
Sea Changes: Books That Mattered
Rear-View Mirror: On the Road
Peter Nabokov
New Directions: On First Looking Into Corso’s The Happy Birthday of Death
James McKenzie
The Brownian Movement: Life Against Death
Michael Beard
Three Poems
Alice Witter
Three Poems
Gwen Lindberg Nagel
Serial Poems from Canada
Sherman Paul
Reviews
Virginia Faulkner with Frederick C. Luebke, eds., Vision and Refuge: Essays on the Literature of the Great Plains
Mary Ellen Caldwell and Joseph E. DeFlyer
Elizabeth Hampsten, Read This Only to Yourself
Sue Amritage
Cary Nelson, Our Last First Poets: Vision and History in Contemporary American Poetry
Bruce Wheaton
Steve Talbot, Roots of Oppression: The American Indian Question
Joseph E. DeFlyer
Laura Boss, Stripping, and Maria Gillan, Flowers from the Tree of Night
Max Westbrook
My Daughter at 14: Christmas Dance, 1981
Maria Gillan
Editor’s Notes
Contributors