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Talking to Strangers

by Vern Rutsala

The Hudson Review, Spring 1987, p. 85

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    2. Writer and Religion by Wendell Berry, pp. 15-30
    3. The Devil and American Epic by John P. Sisk, pp. 31-47
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      1. Down by Law (1986 Film) by Jim Jarmusch
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    6. Flood (fiction) by Kathleen Hill, pp. 71-78
    7. The Home by Mark Jarman, pp. 79-84
    8. Talking to Strangers by Vern Rutsala, p. 85
    9. In the Attic by Jeffrey Harrison, pp. 86-87
    10. The Seitz Theater by Martha Ronk Lifson, p. 88
    11. The Dogs by James Baker Hall, p. 89
    12. Playground by Joyce Carol Oates, p. 90
    13. The Madeleine and the Slate Pencil by J. Mitchell Morse, pp. 91-92
    14. Music by Robert S. Clark, pp. 93-102
    15. Art by Maureen Mullarkey, pp. 103-112
    16. Theatre by Richard Hornby, pp. 113-120
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      2. Therese (1986 Film) by Alain Cavalier
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      Fiction Chronicle by Michael Gorra, pp. 136-148 - 9 Reviews
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      3. Digging up the Mountains by Neil Bissoondath
      4. The Progress of Love by Alice Munro
      5. Group Sex: A Romantic Comedy by Ann Arensberg
      6. The Fisher King by Anthony Powell
      7. The Lost Language of Cranes by David Leavitt
      8. The Beet Queen by Louise Erdrich
      9. Saints and Strangers by Angela Carter
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      Public and Private Poetry by James Finn Cotter, pp. 149-155 - 7 Reviews
      1. The Selected Poetry of Jaroslav Seifert by Jaroslav Seifert and George Gibian
      2. Personal Accounts by Robert S. Phillips
      3. Rubbings by Jerome Mazzaro
      4. The Ghosts of Who We Were by Phyllis H. Thompson
      5. New and Collected Poems, 1970-1985 by David Ignatow
      6. The Poems of R.S. Thomas by R.S. Thomas
      7. Relations: Selected Poems 1950-1985 by Philip Booth
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      Marriages and Partings by Emily Grosholz, pp. 156-164 - 6 Reviews
      1. Poems, 1959-1975 by Yves Bonnefoy
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      3. What Women Know, What Men Believe by Wyatt Prunty
      4. Thomas and Beulah by Rita Dove
      5. The Girl in the Midst of the Harvest by Kathryn Stripling Byer
      6. All of Us Here by Irving Feldman
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      Nabokov's Private Eye by Dean Flower, pp. 165-171 - 2 Reviews
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      2. The Enchanter by Vladimir Nabokov
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    24. Notes on Contributors, pp. 176-178
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    1. Bennett Award Acceptance Speech, 1986 by Nadine Gordimer, pp. 182-183
    2. Educating the Prime Minister by George Watson, pp. 184-192
    3. Tuesday at the Met by Maureen Mullarkey, pp. 193-206
    4. The Successful Careery of Robert Bly by Dana Gioia, pp. 207-224
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    6. The Lives and Deaths of Charlotte Bronte by Harold Fromm, pp. 233-250
    7. Life of Beethoven by Peter J. Smith, pp. 251-278
    8. A Yellow Cottage by Tom Wayman, pp. 279-285
    9. Why Is It Always the Way It Always Is; Motion Which Disestablishes Organizes Everything... by A.R. Ammons, pp. 286-294
    10. The Structures of Everyday Life by B.H. Fairchild, p. 295
    11. The Light on the Door by Phyllis Hoge Thompson, p. 296
    12. Theatre by Richard Hornby, pp. 297-305
    13. Music by Robert S. Clark, pp. 306-312
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      2. Zero db, and Other Stories by Madison Smartt Bell
      3. In Constant Flight by Elizabeth Tallent
      4. The Spell by Hermann Broch
      5. September Light by Horst Bienek
      6. A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor
      7. Anywhere But Here by Mona Simpson
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      3. Collected Stories by Jessamyn West
      4. Nights in the Gardens of Brooklyn by Harvey Swados
      5. Collected Stories, 1948-1986 by Wright Morris
      6. Ocean of Story by Christina Stead
      7. 22 Stories~~Twenty-Two Stories by Penelope Gilliatt
      8. Doing the Voices by Jeremy Brooks
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      4. Moon in a Mason Jar by Robert Wrigley
      5. The Clasp and Other Poems by Michael Collier
      6. Palladium by Alice Fulton
      7. An Alternative to Speech by David Lehman
    19. Notes on Contributors, pp. 352-354
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    15. Dance by Marcia B. Siegel, pp. 451-457
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      2. Go Tell the Spartans (1978 Film) by Ted Post
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      1. George Santayana: A Biography by John McCormick
      2. Persons and Places: The Background of My Life by George Santayana
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      3. The Laughing Cry by Henri Lopes
      4. Continent by Jim Crace
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      5. Cemetery Nights by Stephen Dobyns
      6. Dust Light, Leaves by Christopher Buckley
      7. The Tattooed Lady in the Garden by Pattiann Rogers
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      7. Foreseeable Futures by William Matthews
    25. Notes on Contributors, pp. 528-530
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    1. To Our Readers, pp. 533-536
    2. Hamlet's Older Brother by Bert O. States, pp. 537-552
    3. Brothers Under the Skin: O'Neill and Williams by John Simon, pp. 553-565
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    5. Jazz: The Aesthetics of Imperfection by Ted Gioia, pp. 585-600
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      2. Sometimes I Live in the Country by Frederick Busch
      3. Museum Pieces by Elizabeth Tallent
      4. Success Stories by Russell Banks
      5. Delirium Eclipse, and Other Stories by James Lasdun
      6. Out of India by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
      7. Cold Spring Harbor by Richard Yates
      8. The Moon Pinnace by Thomas Williams
      9. The Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway
      10. An Academic Question by Barbara Pym
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      2. Driving the Body Back by Mary Swander
      3. Time and the White Tigress by Mary Barnard
      4. The Golden Gate by Vikram Seth
      5. The Whole Truth by James Cummins
      6. The Happy Man by Donald Hall
      7. Your Native Land, Your Life by Adrienne Cecile Rich
      8. The Odds by Chase Twichell
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