Salmagundi No. 121-122 / Winter – Spring 1999 Table of Contents  Columns Letter from Paris by Tzvetan Todorov The Decline of Identity by Nacy Huston The Fate of Ideas by Marilynne Robinson On Film by Walter Kendrick The Art Scene by Charles Molesworth Features Five Poems and an Essay by Zbigniew Herbert A Hooligan’s Return by Norman Manea Poems Two Poems by Frank Bidart Five Poems by C.K. Williams Two Poems by Carl Dennis Until We Drool and Piss Ourselves by Stephen Dobyns Caveat for the Incautious by Daniel Kunitz What Does It Mean? by Peter Dale Scott Master of the Situation by Joan Murray Essay Deliciousness by Daniel Harris Poems Admiral of the Parking Lot by Debora Greger To My Soul’s Desire by Karen Mullhallen Maimonides, I Beseech You by Scott Coffel Leaving by Liz Waldner Imitation Tudor by Jennifer Franklin Essay The Contemporary Wedding Invitation by Jaclyn Geller Poems The Other I by Robert Richman Two Poems by Barry Goldensohn Essay Sonata by John Shepley Poems Aubade by Gordon Lish Offering by Karen Swenson Gully Side by Richard Moore Books in Review Chomsky and the Rest of Us by Geoffrey Galt Harpham Feminist/Harassment by Sarah Webster Goodwin Nicholson Baker’s Everlasting Story by Chris Miller Vendler Reads the Sonnets by Jay Rogoff |