No. 172 (Summer 1992)

Contents

5        Editorial

Poetry
7        Catherine M. Buckaway: The Call of Youth
8        Tradition
9        Something Serious
25      Martha Hillhouse: AM
26      Fred Biggar: the shout
26      a hitchhiker's guide to relationships
27      Andrew Stubbs: nudes climbing apple tree
29      Colin Morton: Mémoires d'un amnésique
29      Trois Sarabandes
30      Croquis et agaceries d'un gross bonhomme
30      Trois morceaux en forme de poire
31      La belle eccentrique
32      Hugh Williams: Floor Works
32      Church Pews
33      B.Z. Niditch: Katlyn Forest
49      John Terpstra: Explicable as the Centre Mall
53      John Barton: City in the Foothills
55      Patricia Young: The Basics
56      Licorice Root
58      Elizabeth Yeoman: Swimming Lengths I, II, III
60      Steven Adams: Prophecy in the News
63      Linda McNutt: Mrs. Billington
75      Catherine Sasanov: All Hallow's
76      Notes On Our Future Disinterment
79      Robert Cooperman: John Clarke, Keats's Schoolmaster...
80      At The Titian Exhibit, the National Gallery
81      Nothing He Was Afraid Of
82      Elizabeth Brewster: Marching Feet
83      How Sweet was Versing
84      Displaced Persons
85      Joan McBreen: "Eanach Cuain"
87      Polly Wellenbach: Fletcher
88      Tim Bowling: I Have
89      Old Barns
91      David Etheridge: Female giant of my youth
92      Shadow on the Beach
121    Steve Owad: advice
123    Jill Solnicki: An Artist's Angel
124    A Poet Propositions Chagall
125    Don Linehan: Two Memorials

Fiction
11      Anne Copeland: Mother Love
65      Marvyne Jenoff: Cinderella And All The Slippers
94      Fred Bonnie: A Hearse for the Living

Out of Place
35      Allan Weiss: Minorities

Review Articles
127    Bill Bauer: Reading Maine
          The Maine Reader, ed. Charles and Samuelle Shain
133    Elizabeth Brewster: Moonlight & Wormwood
          The Artemesia Book: Poems Selected and New, Colleen Thibaudeau
135    Sue Schenk: How Things Stay
          Dry Land Tourist, Dianne Maguire
          Remembering G and other Stories, Makeda Silver
140    M. Travis Lane: Maximalist Poetry
          Whylah Falls, George Elliott Clarke

144    Contributors

Art
Reg Balch
Cover
A Cormorant Conversation, French Lake, New Brunswick
10
Barn Swallows
34
Gannets
86
Hairy Woodpeckers
126
Weir, Tommy's Cove, Bay of fundy