Featured in this issue: Alvin Greenbergs The Music of Silence Ihab Hassans. The Expense of Spirit in Postmodern Times Veronica Pattersons Comfort Me with Apples Scott Russell Sanders The Power of Stories Ralph Thurstons A Habit of Distrust FICTION by Steven Almond, Frederick Busch, Phil Condon, & Kent Meyers POETRY by Wayne Dodd, Patricia Sullivan Gaston, William Heyen, Andrew Hinton, Jane Hirshfield, Peter Mcinke, Elizabeth Seydel Morgan, Linda Parsons, J. Allyn Rosser, Richard Speakes, & Paul Zimmer ART: Patti Warashinas Acute Ambiguity (Color Reproductions, one to a page - see clay head on cover for example) BooK REVIEWS byJoe Bonomo, Jeanne Braham, Anne C. Bromley, Edward Butscher, Fred Chappell, & Sanford Pinsker