Poetry Chronicle, by Emily Grosholz, THE HUDSON REVIEW

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A Romance, by Bruce Weigl

by Emily Grosholz

The Hudson Review, Summer 1980, pp. 293-308

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    Spring 1980 Issue = 20 Articles
    1. To Our Readers, pp. 4-8
    2. High Society by Daniel Hoffman, pp. 9-12
    3. Dove sta memoria: In Italy by Charles Tomlinson, pp. 13-34
    4. Distraction; Design; Rapids; Feel like Traveling On; Spruce Woods; Night Finding by A.R. Ammons, pp. 35-38
    5. Three Versions of Peter's Denial by Jefferson Hunter, pp. 39-57
    6. Sexesl Leafing by Samuel Hazo, pp. 58-59
    7. The Paper Boy (story) by Richard Wertime, pp. 60-76
    8. The Valley Road; A Slow Breaker by Philip Booth, p. 77
    9. A Most Unmelancholy Dane by Marcia B. Siegel, pp. 78-84
    10. Music Chronicle: Kurt Weill by Robert S. Clark, pp. 85-89
    11. Notes on Contributors, p. 90
    12. Chardin by Charles W. Millard, pp. 91-96
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      Too Much Even of Kreplach by Joseph Epstein, pp. 97-110 - 11 Reviews
      1. The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth
      2. The Best of Rhys Davies by Rhys Davies
      3. Burger's Daughter by Nadine Gordimer
      4. It Looked Like for Ever by Mark Harris
      5. Cannibals and Missionaries by Mary McCarthy
      6. In Plain Russian by Vladimir Voinovich
      7. The Passion Artist by John Hawkes
      8. Old Love by Isaac Bashevis Singer
      9. Seven Serpents and Seven Moons by Demetrio Aguilera-Malta
      10. Tantrum by Jules Feiffer
      11. Black Tickets by Jayne Anne Phillips
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      Paoli's Boswell by Marvin Mudrick, pp. 111-118 - 1 Review
      1. Boswell's Paoli by Joseph Foladare
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      The Men of Sick Europe by Roger Sale, pp. 119-125 - 1 Review
      1. The Brothers Mann by Nigel Hamilton
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      A Mumford Chronicle by John L. Hess, pp. 126-130 - 1 Review
      1. My Works and Days by Lewis Mumford
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      Poetry, Ego and Self by James Finn Cotter, pp. 131-145 - 13 Reviews
      1. This Tree Will Be Here for a Thousand Years by Robert Bly
      2. The Poems of Stanley Kunitz, 1928-1978 by Stanley Kunitz
      3. Selected Poems 1950-1975 by Thom Gunn
      4. Guillen on Guillen by Jorge Guillen
      5. Living with Distance by Ralph J. Mills, Jr.
      6. Child's Game, On a Journey, and Other Poems by Spencer Brown
      7. Practicing Up to Be Human by Lionel Kearns
      8. The Burning Mystery of Anna in 1951 by Kenneth Koch
      9. No Ordinary World by Mekeel McBride
      10. Riven Doggeries by James Tate
      11. The Woman on the Bridge Over the Chicago River by Allen R. Grossman
      12. In Broken Country by David Wagoner
      13. An Explanation of America by Robert Pinsky
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      Cowboy and Crazies: The American West, Then and Now by James P. Degnan, pp. 146-150 - 8 Reviews
      1. The Serial by Cyra McFadden
      2. Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
      3. This House of Sky by Ivan Doig
      4. Endangered by Barnaby Conrad
      5. From the High Plains by John Fischer
      6. The Great American West by James D. Horan
      7. San Francisco: The Story of a City by John Bernard McGloin
      8. Suddenly San Francisco by Charles Lockwood
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      Cuadra in Translation by Edmund L. King, pp. 151-154 - 1 Review
      1. Songs of Cifar and the Sweet Sea by Pablo Antonio Cuadra
    20. [+]
      Mysteries and Solutions by Dore J. Levy, pp. 155-162 - 1 Review
      1. The Genesis of Secrecy by Frank Kermode
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    Summer 1980 Issue = 23 Articles
    1. To Our Readers, pp. 164-165
    2. Letter from London by Derwent May, pp. 166-175
    3. Notes on Contributors, p. 176
    4. Six Last Poems by James Wright, pp. 177-181
    5. Army Brat (memoir) by William Jay Smith, pp. 182-200
    6. The Outdoor Amphitheatre by Alfred Corn, pp. 201-209
    7. Emerson's Ode to W.H. Channing by David Bromwich, pp. 210-222
    8. Once; Snap. Crackle. Pop; Vertical & Horizontal; Running on Empty by Robert Phillips, pp. 223-226
    9. 1913; Naming the Losses by Jay Parini, pp. 227-229
    10. The Runner by Philip Dacey, p. 230
    11. Walking on the Water by Nancy Lee Couto, pp. 231-232
    12. Translation President (story) by Kim Yong Ik, pp. 233-244
    13. Reject Jell-O; Fifteen by Lucille Day, pp. 245-246
    14. Therapy; Fawn by Kristopher Johnson, pp. 247-249
    15. Michael's Room by Reginald Gibbons, p. 250
    16. Film Chronicle: Moliere, Australia and These United States by Vernon Young, pp. 251-256
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      Fictional Fixes by William H. Pritchard, pp. 257-270 - 15 Reviews
      1. Problems, and Other Stories by John Updike
      2. The Pornographer by John McGahern
      3. A Married Man by Piers Paul Read
      4. Life Before Man by Margaret Atwood
      5. Smiley's People by John le Carre
      6. Darkness Visible by William Golding
      7. Shikasta: Canopus in Argos-Archives by Doris May Lessing
      8. The Princess of Seventy-Second Street by Elaine Kraf
      9. Looking for Work by Susan Cheever
      10. Memoir of a Gambler by Jack Richardson
      11. Kennedy for the Defense by George V. Higgins
      12. Rounds by Frederick Busch
      13. So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell
      14. Plains Song by Wright Morris
      15. The Book of Bebb by Frederick Buechner
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      Hidden Meanings by Patricia Meyer Spacks, pp. 271-278 - 4 Reviews
      1. The Letters of Lewis Carroll by Morton N. Cohen, Roger Lancelyn Green, and Lewis Carroll, ...
      2. Lewis Carroll: A Biography by Anne Clark Amor
      3. Lewis Carroll, Photographer of Children by Morton N. Cohen
      4. Lewis Carroll's Bedside Book by Edgar Cuthwellis and Lewis Carroll
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      Boswell's Johnson by Marvin Mudrick, pp. 279-287 - 1 Review
      1. Samuel Johnson: A Critical Study by John Philips Hardy
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      Opening a Literary Time Capsule by Thomas B. Smith, pp. 288-292 - 1 Review
      1. Fables of Aggression by Fredric Jameson
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      Poetry Chronicle by Emily Grosholz, pp. 293-308 - 14 Reviews
      1. A Romance by Bruce Weigl
      2. Walking Four Ways in the Wind by John Allman
      3. Signs and Wonders by Carl Dennis
      4. Maya by Eleanor Wilner
      5. Field Work by Seamus Heaney
      6. Cascades by Pamela Stewart
      7. Notes from the Castle by Howard Moss
      8. Selected Poems by Richard Hugo
      9. Goshawk, Antelope by Dave Smith
      10. Twelve Moons by Mary Oliver
      11. Selected Poems by Donald Justice
      12. The Venetian Vespers by Anthony Hecht
      13. The Sovereign Sun by Odysseus Elytis
      14. Selected Poems by Angelos Sikelianos
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      Aristides Is Alive and Well and Living in Chicago by Samuel Hazo, pp. 309-312 - 1 Review
      1. Familiar Territory: Observations on American Life by Joseph Epstein
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      Gnostic Visions and Revisions by James Finn Cotter, pp. 313-322 - 2 Reviews
      1. The Nag Hammadi Library in English by James M. Robinson
      2. The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
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    Autumn 1980 Issue = 20 Articles
    1. The Bennett Award 1980, pp. 321-323
    2. To Our Readers, pp. 324-330
    3. The Unsung Hero by Marvin Mudrick, pp. 331-357
    4. From Brotherly Love by Daniel Hoffman, pp. 358-370
    5. Declaration of Dependence (story) by Barbara Kerr Davis, pp. 371-382
    6. Poems for My Brother by Greg Kuzma, pp. 383-390
    7. Passages Early and Late (memoir) by James McConkey, pp. 391-402
    8. Notes Toward a Politics for the Future by James Baker Hall, pp. 403-405
    9. The Stoker's Sunday Morning by Andrew Hudgins, p. 406
    10. The Blanket; First Snow by James Ellen Glasser, pp. 407-408
    11. Shades of a Kingdom by Marcia B. Siegel, pp. 409-414
    12. Marsden Hartley by Charles W. Millard, pp. 415-420
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      Jane Eyre's Heirs by Dean Flower, pp. 421-430 - 1 Review
      1. The Madwoman in the Attic by Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar
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      One Hell of a Life by Vernon Young, pp. 431-436 - 2 Reviews
      1. Katherine Mansfield: A Biography by Jeffrey Meyers
      2. The Life of Katherine Mansfield by Antony Alpers
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      Fiction Chronicle by David Kubal, pp. 437-448 - 9 Reviews
      1. A Glass of Blessings by Barbara Pym
      2. Household Words by Joan Silber
      3. Morgan's Passing by Anne Tyler
      4. The Woman Who Lived in a Prologue by Nina Schneider
      5. The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
      6. Falling in Place by Ann Beattie
      7. Run to the Waterfall by Arturo Vivante
      8. Childhood and Other Neighborhoods by Stuart Dybek
      9. Freddy's Book by John Gardner
    16. [+]
      Guy Davenport in Harmony by George Kearns, pp. 449-454 - 2 Reviews
      1. Da Vinci's Bicycle by Guy Davenport
      2. Tatlin! by Guy Davenport
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      At the Start of the Eighties by Jerome Mazzaro, pp. 455-468 - 17 Reviews
      1. The Strength of Fields by James Dickey
      2. As We Know by John Ashbery
      3. The Moon Is Always Female by Marge Piercy
      4. Mortal Acts, Mortal Words by Galway Kinnell
      5. Repairs by G.E. Murray
      6. God's Measurements by Laurence Lieberman
      7. That Was Then by Isabella Gardner
      8. Our Thousand Year Old Bodies by Frederic Will
      9. Subterranean Horses by Yannis Ritsos
      10. Movable Islands by Debora Greger
      11. The Everlastings by Norman Dubie
      12. Trader by Robert Mazzocco
      13. Water and Stone by R.G. Vliet
      14. In the Stopping Train, and Other Poems by Donald Davie
      15. Coming to Terms by Josephine Miles
      16. One Way to Reconstruct the Scene by William Davis
      17. Sunrise by Frederick Seidel
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      Imaginary Americas by Guy Davenport, pp. 469-473 - 1 Review
      1. Imagining America by Peter Conrad
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      V.S. Naipaul by Robert Martin Adams, pp. 474-479 - 1 Review
      1. The Return of Eva Peron by V.S. Naipaul
    20. Notes on Contributors, pp. 480-482
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    Winter 1980 Issue = 17 Articles
    1. Bennett Award Acceptance Speech, 1980 by V.S. Naipaul, pp. 481-483
    2. Notes on Contributors, pp. 484-488
    3. Standing by Words by Wendell Berry, pp. 489-521
    4. In Our Beds of Doubt or Certainty by David Rosenberg, pp. 522-528
    5. Daughters of Passion (story) by Julia O'Faolain, pp. 529-550
    6. Wordless Winter by Peter Davison, pp. 551-554
    7. "The Empire of the Senses"; The Constellation; In Memoriam: J.B. by Celia Gilbert, pp. 555-558
    8. Passenger by Ruth Fainlight, p. 559
    9. Film Chronicle: The Bloody British Cinema by Vernon Young, pp. 560-564
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      The Publicity Hound by Marvin Mudrick, pp. 565-574 - 1 Review
      1. The Oak and the Calf by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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      These Days in the Holocene by Gilberto Perez, pp. 575-588 - 7 Reviews
      1. Man in the Holocene by Max Frisch
      2. Finding a Girl in America by Andre Dubus
      3. World's End and Other Stories by Paul Theroux
      4. A Soldier's Embrace by Nadine Gordimer
      5. The Nobel Prize by Yuri Krotkov
      6. A German Love Story by Rolf Hochhuth
      7. The Emperor of the Amazon by Marcio Souza
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      Ghosts on a Gold Mountain by Clara Claiborne Park, pp. 589-595 - 2 Reviews
      1. The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
      2. China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston
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      Mazzaro, Vendler, Freud & Co. by Emily Grosholz, pp. 596-602 - 2 Reviews
      1. Postmodern American Poetry by Jerome Mazzaro
      2. Part of Nature, Part of Us by Helen H. Vendler
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      Blackmur's Last Song by William H. Pritchard, pp. 603-610 - 1 Review
      1. Henry Adams by R.P. Blackmur and Veronica A. Makowsky
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      Poetry Chronicle by Dana Gioia, pp. 611-627 - 13 Reviews
      1. A Part of Speech by Joseph Brodsky
      2. Moortown by Ted Hughes
      3. Collected Poems, 1944-1979 by Kingsley Amis
      4. Seeing the World by Dick Davis
      5. Sure Signs by Ted Kooser
      6. Denizens by Ronald Perry
      7. The Glass Houses by John N. Morris
      8. Goldilocks in Later Life by R.M. Ryan
      9. Wheat Among Bones by Mary Baron
      10. Nervous Horses by Vicki Hearne
      11. The Various Light by Alfred Corn
      12. Li Ching-Chao: Complete Poems by Kenneth Rexroth, Ling Chung, and Ching-Chao Li
      13. Pilgrim of the Clouds by Hung-Tao Yuan
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      For Better or Worse: The Year's Verse by James Finn Cotter, pp. 628-635 - 1 Review
      1. Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry by Alan F. Pater
    17. Index to Volume XXXIII, pp. 636-642
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