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Between the Conception and the Recreation Falls The Shadow Line

by John Simon

The Hudson Review, Summer 1979, pp. 239-243

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    2. On the Experience of Unteaching Poetry by Alice Bloom, pp. 7-30
    3. Love Sequence by Andrew Waterman, pp. 31-35
    4. Contest of Bards by Allen Ginsberg, pp. 36-40
    5. The River Bridged and Forgot; Another Descent; Ronsard's Lament for the Cutting of the ... by Wendell Berry, pp. 41-44
    6. Mr. Wallender's Romance (story) by David Wagoner, pp. 45-63
    7. From where I am now; At first they appear; Let me try again to be; This is a love poem ... by James Baker Hall, pp. 64-68
    8. Urania by Debra Thomas, pp. 69-70
    9. To Our Son by Sydney Lea, p. 71
    10. At the House of the Tin Man by Robert McDowell, pp. 72-73
    11. Speaking, Telling, Knowing by John Holloway, p. 74
    12. The Lighthouse by Kim Robert Stafford, pp. 75-76
    13. Theater Chronicle: Kopit, Norman, and Shepard by John Simon, pp. 77-88
    14. Notes from a Japan Diary by Marcia B. Siegel, pp. 89-96
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      1. Days of Heaven (1978 Film) by Terrence Malick
    16. Music Chronicle by Robert S. Clark, pp. 105-108
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      2. Kicking the Leaves by Donald Hall
      3. Light from the Furnace Rising by Paul Petrie
      4. Nightfire by Gail Mazur
      5. Border Crossings by Greg Pape
      6. Sun Fetcher by Michael Dennis Browne
      7. The Fifth Season by Michael Sheridan
      8. A Call in the Midst of the Crowd by Alfred Corn
      9. Woman Before an Aquarium by Patricia Hampl
      10. The Climbers by John Hart
      11. The Veritable Years by William Everson
      12. Imagining a Unicorn by Barry Spacks
      13. The Pregnant Man by Robert S. Phillips
      14. Buying a Heart by George MacBeth
      15. Who Shall be the Sun? by David Wagoner
      16. Finding the Center by Dennis Tedlock
      17. Now and Then by Robert Penn Warren
      18. Tread the Dark by David Ignatow
      19. Weathering by Alastair Reid
      20. Selected Poems of May Sarton by Serena Sue Hilsinger, Lois Brynes, and May Sarton, ...
      21. This Blessed Earth by John Hall Wheelock
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      Bring Me Another Five and Don't Spare the Duck Sauce by Marvin Mudrick, pp. 123-134 - 1 Review
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      1. Walking Through Tigerland by Barry Oakley
      2. The Track to Bralgu by B. Wongar
      3. All Part of the Game by A.P. Gaskell
      4. Selected Stories of Sean O'Faolain by Sean O'Faolain
      5. A Kingdom by James Hanley
      6. Blindness by Henry Green
      7. A Good School by Richard Yates
      8. Happy All the Time by Laurie Colwin
    21. Notes on Contributors, p. 150
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      1. James Joyce in Padua by Louis Berrone and James Joyce
      2. Ulysses in Progress by Michael Groden
      3. Joyce's Voices by Hugh Kenner
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    1. Century Poem by Frederick Morgan, pp. 167-174
    2. Georgia O'Keeffe: A Late Greeting by Charles Tomlinson, pp. 175-185
    3. Duntulm Castle; The Clouds of Uig by Richard Hugo, pp. 186-188
    4. Moving Out; Leavetaking by Joyce Carol Oates, pp. 189-190
    5. No Time for Comedy by Clara Claiborne Park, pp. 191-200
    6. From The Immobile Zone by Giorgio Chiesura, pp. 201-204
    7. Uncle Vinnie (story) by Jane H. Maher, pp. 205-214
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    9. Counting the Waves; Making a Double Angel by Patricia Goedicke, pp. 225-228
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    11. Between the Conception and the Recreation Falls The Shadow Line by John Simon, pp. 239-243
    12. Notes on Contributors, p. 244
    13. Baziotes and Rothko by Charles W. Millard, pp. 245-251
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      2. Baddeck and Other Poems by Anne Hussey
      3. A Circus of Needs by Stephen Dunn
      4. Riversongs by Michael Anania
      5. Since 1964: New and Selected Poems by Peter Schjeldahl
      6. Rounding the Horn by David R. Slavitt
      7. Collected Verse by John S. Manifold
      8. The Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser by Janet E. Kaufman, Anne F. Herzog, and Jan Heller Levi, ...
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      10. Life in the Forest by Denise Levertov
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      4. The Warriors (1979 Film) by Walter Hill
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      4. All I Can Say by Geoffrey Holloway
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      7. A Mixture of Frailties by Robertson Davies
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      9. Silence by Shusaku Endo
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      4. Scripture of the Blind by Yannis Ritsos
      5. Osip Mandelstam: Fifty Poems by Osip Mandelshtam
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      7. Natural Histories by Leslie Ullman
      8. Like Wings by Philip Schultz
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