Summer 1996

Volume 72/3

Patricia Foster’s “Outside the Hive: A Meditation on Childlessness” Robert Erwin’s “Injuns” Stephen Minot’s “An Open Letter to Christians, Both Born and Reborn: An Informal Essay” Jeffrey Meyers’s “Bogart and Hemingway” Stories by Patricia Foster, Robert Erwin, Stephen Minot, and Jeffrey Meyers Poetry by Ira Sadoff, Peter Cooley, Marcia Southwick, and Don Barkin

Summer 1996

Volume 72, Number 3

Print: $10.00

Poetry

POETRY / ISSUE: Summer 1996

Two Landscapes

By Marcia Southwick

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The Mathew Brady Photographs

By Don Barkin

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Profiles In Courage

By Anthony P. Dunbar

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Spain Today: Is the Party Over?

By David T. Gies

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Grief

By Don Barkin

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Final Thoughts, Last Morsels

By Sanford Pinsker

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Clara’s PC and the Second Coming

By J. David Stevens

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Necessity

By Elaine Terranova

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Simple Past

By Elena Gorokhova

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Great Expectations and Shadowlands: American Presidents and Their Reputations In the 20th Century

By John Milton Cooper Jr.

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The Spot

By Elaine Terranova

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Outside the Hive: A Meditation on Childlessness

By Patricia Foster

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Reprint, Summer 1996

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California Blackouts: Monterey, 1945

By Terri Brown-Davidson

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Injuns

By Robert Erwin

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Oh Happy Day

By Ira Sadoff

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The Green Room, Summer 1996

By Staige D. Blackford

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Act of Humanity

By Jennifer Howard

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Fox Crossing A Field

By Ira Sadoff

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Notes on Current Books, Summer 1996

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An Open Letter to Christians, Both Born and Reborn: An Informal Essay

By Stephen Minot

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The Myelogram

By Ira Sadoff

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An All-American Iconoclast

By Jack R. Fischel

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Miss Savory’s Memorial Museum: Carolina Coast

By Kim Stafford

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Hunger

By Peter Cooley

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Seeing Hardy Anew

By John Maynard

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Bogart and Hemingway

By Jeffrey Meyers

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Memories of Susquehanna: B. F. Skinner

By Marcia Southwick

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The “Meaning” of Vermeer

By Paul Barolsky

/ ISSUE: Summer 1996

Then and Now: In Cold Blood Revisited

By George Garrett

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Informal Logic

By Don Barkin

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The Personal That Matters’

By Jeff Parker Knight

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The Mystique of Multiculturalism

By Stephen J. Whitfield

Contributor Profiles

Patricia Foster

Patricia Foster is the author of All the Lost Girls and the forthcoming book of essays, Just Beneath My Skin. She edited Minding the Body: Women Writers on Body and Soul and Sister-to-Sister.

John Milton Cooper Jr.

John Milton Cooper Jr. wrote widely on American diplomatic history. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.