From Summer 1988 Explore This Issue Literary History in an Indeterminate Age (on Columbia Literary History of the United States by Emory Elliott) By Sanford Pinsker From the Summer 1988 Issue ← The Feel of Things → Speaking Passions (on An Oregon Message by William Stafford; To the Quick by Heather McHugh; Shades by Heather McHugh; The Imperfect Paradise by Linda Pastan; To the Place of Trumpets by Brigit Pegeen Kelly; & Rose by Li-Young Lee)