Winter 1992 (Volume XLIV, No. 4) Letter from Galway by Richard Tillinghast The Vigil by Louis Simpson Soviet Civilization: Its Discontents, Disasters, Residual Fascinations by Caryl Emerson Newark Job by John Van Kirk The Powers of Heaven and Earth by John Frederick Nims The Deathbed Playboy by Philip Dacey Autumn Sonata; Rain or Shine by Emily Grosholz Reveille by John Holloway Baltimore & Ohio R.R. by Robert Phillips Rose Moon by Allen Hoey For Posterity; Chandler’s Pond, December by Sarah M. Brownsberger Snake Skin; The Back Door by Ted Kooser The Fate of the Avant-Garde by John Loughery Theatre in Southern California by Richard Hornby Law of the Jungle by Bert Cardullo Ford Madox Ford Unmuddled? by Harold Fromm Left-Handed Compliments: The Practicality of Frank Kermode by Clara Claiborne Park Poetry and Knowledge by Robert Schultz Poetry Chronicle by Andrew Hudgins Family Ties by William H. Pritchard Fiction Chronicle by David Mason