From Summer 1986 Explore This Issue Listening to Emerson (on Emerson’s Demanding Optimism by Gertrude Reif Hughes & Emerson’s Romantic Style by Julie Ellison) By Wai-chee Dimock From the Summer 1986 Issue ← Staying at Home and Going Away (on The Long Approach by Maxine Kumin; A Fraction of Darkness by Linda Pastan; The Unborn by Rodney Jones; Selected Poems 1963-1983 by Charles Simic; & The Springhouse by Norman Dubie) → on The Periodic Table by Primo Levi and Raymond Rosenthal
