Class Consciousness and the American Writer
INTRODUCTION
W.S. DI PIERO Pocketbook and Sauerkraut
EMILY GROSHOLZ Class and Poetry on the Outskirts of Philadelphia
ERICA JONG Who’s Got Class?
EDWARD KLEINSCHMIDT A Body of Work
PHILIP LEVINE Class With No Class
PAUL MARIANI Class
LINDA MCCARRISTON Class Unconsciousness and an American Writer
RON POWERS Losing the Aristocratic Taint
DONALD REVELL The Moving Sidewalk
DAVID RIVARD Paint Brushers vs. Rollers: On Class Warfare, Honor, and the Cosmos
GERALD STERN What I Have To Defend, What I Can’t Bear Losing
ALAN WILLIAMSON Nursery School Politics
Special Feature: The Associated Writing Programs Intro Journals Project
PREFACE
ALAN AINSWORTH Breath
REBECCA BYRKIT The Only Dance There Is
KATHRYN H. GESSNER Draw Back Blood
MARTHA GREENWALD Sunset District: Diminished Seventh
ELIZABETH LOGAN HARRIS A View of the Kingdom
KJERSTI A. REED During Celibacy the Mind Tends to Wander
Three on George Steiner
ROBERT BOYERS George Steiner as Cultural Critic: Confronting America
MARK KRUPNICK George Steiner’s Literary Journalism: “The Heart of the Maze”
EDIT WYSCHOGROD The Mind of a Critical Moralist: Steiner as Jew
Reviews
RICHARD TILLINGHAST Eamon Grennan: “To Leave Something Bright and Upright Behind”
PAMELA ERENS Feminism American and Un-American (On Rosa Montero)
THOMAS SWISS Beyond Silence (On William Matthews)
SHIRA NAYMAN “Part of the Emptiness”: Rodney Hall’s Vision of a Troubled Australia
Contributors’ Notes
COVER ART: Jeff Kaufman