Summer 1990

Volume 66/3

Fenton Johnson’s “Catholic In the South: Confessions of A Convert’s Son” Edwin M. Yoder’s “The Princess Casamassima Revisited” Roy Macridis’s “The ‘Other Side’ of Jacobinism” Peter Harris’s “Forty Years of Richard Wilbur: the Loving Work of An Equilibrist” Stories by Fenton Johnson, Edwin M. Yoder, Roy Macridis, and Peter Harris Poetry by John Engman, Marisa De Los Santos, Robert Schultz, and William Stafford

Summer 1990

Volume 66, Number 3

Print: $10.00

Essays

ESSAYS / ISSUE: Summer 1990

Chinese Students and the Burden of the Past

By Hardy C. Wilcoxon

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Gentlemen, Scholars, and Lawyers

By Emily Couric

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Catholic In the South: Confessions of A Convert’s Son

By Fenton Johnson

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The Fern

By Marisa De Los Santos

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Juan Goytisolo, Prodigal Son

By David T. Gies

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The Princess Casamassima Revisited

By Edwin M. Yoder Jr.

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Marriage Fires

By Robert Schultz

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The Green Room, Summer 1990

By Staige D. Blackford

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Everybody’s Doin’ A Brand New Dance Now

By James Preston Girard

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Sight & Distance

By Robert Schultz

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Notes on Current Books, Summer 1990

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The Apple-Green Triumph

By Martha Lacy Hall

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The Way I Write

By William Stafford

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The Train Through Dominguez Canyon

By Kent Nelson

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Reprint, Summer 1990

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The “Other Side” of Jacobinism

By Roy Macridis

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Just A Moment—I Am Busy Being A Man

By Marvin Bell

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Two Useful Visits

By Reynolds Price

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I Will Not Be Claimed

By Marvin Bell

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Forty Years of Richard Wilbur: the Loving Work of An Equilibrist

By Peter Harris

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Icarus Thought

By Marvin Bell

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Form and the Beast: the English Mystique

By Nina Witoszek

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Flies

By Grace Butcher

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An Unacknowledged American Poet

By Greg Johnson

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Pastoral

By John Engman

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“Splinter of Ice”

By Jeffrey Meyers

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After Such Knowledge, What Forgiveness?

By Vincent Fitzpatrick

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Gladioli

By John Engman

Contributor Profiles

Edwin M. Yoder Jr.

Edwin M. Yoder Jr. is a native of Greensboro, North Carolina, educated at the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) and Oxford University, England, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

Hardy C. Wilcoxon

Hardy C. Wilcoxon has resided in China and Hong Kong and wrote about Vietnam for VQR following his time there. A graduate of Amherst and Yale University where he received his M.A. and Ph.D.