1917'·VDWME XUV NUMBER2
CONTENTS
NOTES
NEW YORK AND THE NATIONAL CULTURE:
An Exchange
Irving Howe
Morris Dickstein
Hilton Kramer
172
173
174
182
190
ARTICLES
Manfred Puetz
Max Byrd
Imagination and Self-Definition
235
The Madhouse, The Whorehouse,
268
STORIES
Michael Brodsky
And The Convent
The Postal Clerk
NEW ENGLISH POETRY
Deborah Evans, Alan Fuchs, Anthony Howell, lliassa Sequin,
Lee Harwood, John Welch, Peter Ackroyd, Fiona Templeton
BOOKS
William Phillips
Alan Helms
The Cultural Contradictions of
Capitalism
by Daniel Bell
Sleepers Joining Hands
by Robert Bly
The Avenue Bearing the Initials
of Christ Into the New World
by Galway Kinnell
The Book of Nightmares
by Galway Kinnell
209
245
279
284
