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Spring 2016
Table of Contents
Special Feature
Robinson Jeffers Redivivus Robinson Jeffers, the Big Read, and Me
Essays
A Ferment of Existence: Ethics, Friendship, and the Better Life A Quickening of Forgotten Fields An Interview with Walker Percy In Defense of Flannery O’Connor’s Dragon People Not Pedagogy: Education in Old Virginia The Rape of the Schoolmarm
Fiction
Osmium Schwartz on Her Back To Rest Our Minds and Bodies
Poetry
Coronado Beach; The World Doesn’t End; & On Eating Memo to the Man Who Spat on Me & To My Future Child, Concerning Your Family History Noonday and a Deep Idea of Yellow Now That I Am Closer to Thirty-Nine than Thirty-Eight, I Have Located a Psychological Evaluation from the Summer I Turned Fifteen On the Road to Skye; Mustache; & Positioning Petunia; Bringing in the garden on the night of the first frost; & After Taking Out a Splinter Poem of the mind in the act of finding lag & The rising sea of available dukedoms
Reviews
on Action this Day. Working with Churchil by sir John Wheeler-Bennett on Losing Battles by Eudora Welty on The Apocalyptic Vision in Paradise Lost by Leland Ryken on The Great Medieval Yellows by Emily Wilson on The Melville Archetype by Martin Leonard Pops on The World Upside-Down: Comedy from Jonson to Fielding by Ian Donaldson on Thomas Taylor the Platonist: Selected Writings by Kathleen Raine, George Mills Harper on Tyranny of Concepts: A Critique of Marxism by Gordon Leff The Wild Unsayable: Magic, Mystery, and Ambiguity in Contemporary Poetry (on Mark Doty’s Deep Lane ; Alberto Ríos’ A Small Story About the Sky ; Jill Bialosky’s The Players ; and Joanna Klink’s Excerpts from a Secret Prophecy )