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North American Review
Founded in 1815 Volume 263, Number 1 Spring 1978
FEATURES
14 Anybody Want a Copy of My Prayer? A Matter of Power, by Leo J. Hertzel
Love Stories, Perhaps: 27 Forms (Some Things that Happened while Emilia Was in Arizona), by David
Groves
33 A Matter of Irreconcilable Differences, by Susan Darter Hunt
36 An Instance of Spring in Oregon, by Stephen Weiser
38 Wedding, by Judith Beth Cohen 58 Passion?, by Jonathan Baumbach
An Ecological Quartet: 64 Science, Environmentalism, and Music, by Bruce Berger 66 Lessons from the Indians: Ecological Piety, by Peter Heinegg 69 Fields of Danger and the Wilderness of Wisdom, by Joseph W. Meeker
71 A Response to "Fields of Danger," by Paolo Soleri
OTHER FICTION
57 Fruit, by Mark E. Clemens
74 Waiting for the Universe to Blow Over, by Michael Andryc 77 Preludes & Evolutions, two stories by James Gallant
POETRY
13 Father, by Dennis Trudell
26 Gargantua Walking, by Dave Kelly 32 Walking Peachtree Battle Avenue, Atlanta, by Tom McKeown
35 Coming Home, by Rick Robbins 37 Negative, by Leslie Adrienne Miller 43 Iowa Landscape, by John Wistey
73 Blank Sequence, by Brian Swann
81 Two Poems of Pure Place, by David Steingass
DEPARTMENTS
4 American Eye: VINLAND: SPECULATIONS AND CERTAINTIES, by Evan Connell
11 Another Man's Poison: NOT QUITE A LETTER TO SAUL BELLOW, by Kenneth Lash
41 Unclassifieds
82 Books & Authors: JEFFERS' UNPUBLISHED POEMS ABOUT WORLD WAR II, by Robert Ian Scott
87 Synecdoche: BRIEF POETRY NOTICES 88 Film: "FOUL PLAY," by Lawrence Sturhahn
94 Letters to the Editor
THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW, Spring 1978, Vol. 263, No. 1. Published quarterly in March, June, September, December, at the University of Northern Iowa, 1222 West 27th Street, Cedar Falls, Iowa 50613. Second class postage paid at Cedar Falls, Iowa 50613. Printed in the U.S.A. Copyright
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