Volume 43, Issue 1
FRONT COVER: Christin Couture
“Full Moon/Mount Massamont”, 2001
‘sandpaper painting’
pastel, marble dust on panel
18 x 22 inches
“Drowning Church (Quabbin)”, 1997
acrylic on panel
10 x 10 1/2 inches
Table of Contents
Emigration and Cosmetics: South Africa Now, Non-Fiction by Kathryn Joyce
Psalm of the Bitter Man, Poetry by Virgil Suárez
Lice, Fiction by Elizabeth Denton
Damn Melancholy: A Memoir, Poetry by Mary Crow
Tornado, Poetry by Dzvinia Orlowsky
from Nenana, Fiction by Lee W. Stratman
Notes Toward a Commencement Address, Poetry by Miller Williams
Pray for the Dead, Fiction by Claire Tristram
Zero, Poetry by Ellen Wehle
Changing Traditions: South Asian American and Cultural/Communal Politics, Non-Fiction by Ketu H. Ketrak
Bazin on Post-Neorealistic Rossliini, De Sica, and Vicsonto: Three Original Reviews, Non-Fiction by André Bazin, Translated with a preface by Bert Cardullo
Zipper Trip, Poetry by Pamela Yenser
Our Carnal Nature and Cosmic Flow, Non-Fiction by Lorraine Mortimer
The Meaning of Meaning, Fiction by S.G. Miller
Seven Variations on a Theme of Untied Shoelaces, Fiction by Olga Grushin
At the Churchill Club (Little Dean’s Yard, by the Abbey, 1944); On White Horse Hill (May, 1944); Elegy: The Walk Between (July 1944), Poetry by Edward Pols
The New Maid, Fiction by Maximilian Schlaks
And Shapiro’s Little Dog Too!, Poetry by Jimmy A. Lerner
Mulch, Poetry by Stanley Koehler
Parting Shots, Poetry by Mary Fister
Contributors
André Bazin was a co-founder and editor-in-chief of Cahiers du cinéma. He died in 1958.
Bert Cardullo is Professor of Drama at the University of Michigan. His work has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Antioch Review, and other journals.
Christin Couture has exhibited her paintings in the U.S. and internationally for over twenty years. She has had fellowships to Yaddo, MacDowell Colony, and Fondation Karolyi. Her most recent work revives a mid-nineteenth century form of pastel called sandpaper paint ing. She lives with her husband, sculptor William Hosie, in Shelburne Falls and New York City.
A native of Ohio, Mary Crow has written and edited several volumes of poetry, and has been Poet Laureate of Colorado.
Elizabeth Denton is the author of the short story collection, Kneeling on Rice. She teaches fiction at the Univer sity of Virginia.
Mary Fister is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Hartford. Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, The Cream City Review, and several other journals.
Olga Grushin was the first Russian citizen to receive an American college degree. Her work has appeared in Confrontation, Green Mountains Review, and other journals. She lives in Washington, DC. After field work in South Africa,
Kathryn Joyce received her BA from Hampshire College. This is her first publication.
Originally from Bombay, India, Ketu H. Katrak is Director of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Irvine.
Stanley Koehler is Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the author of Countries of the Mind, a study of William Carlos Williams.
Jimmy A. Lerner‘s memoir You Got Nothing Coming: Notes from a Prison Fish will be published by Broadway Books in February 2002.
S.G. Miller received his PhD in Philosophy from Columbia University. A native of the Pacific Northwest, he has lived in New York City since 1986.
An interdisciplinary scholar, Lorraine Mortimer teaches Sociology and Anthropology at La Trobe University in Australia. She is currently writing a book on the work of Dusan Makavejev.
Dzvinia Orlowsky is the author of two volumes of poetry, A Handful of Bees and Edge of House. She teaches at Maine’s Stonecoast Writers’ Conference.
Edward Pols‘s poems are part of the sequence “War’s End, World’s End.” He is the author of six books and numerous articles in the field of philosophy. He lives in Brunswick, Maine.
A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Maximilian Schlaks is currently working on a novel set on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, where he grew up. His fiction has appeared in The Missouri Review and Manoa.
Lee W. Stratman‘s column “Mostly About Marriage” appeared in The Anchorage Times from 1980-1990. He is retired from the Missionary District of Alaska.
Virgil Suárez teaches creative writing at Florida State University. His most recent books include Palm Crows and Banyan.
Claire Tristram has published fiction and nonfiction in Alaska Quarterly Review, Best American Erotica 2001, GQ, and many other publications. She lives in San Jose.
Ellen Wehle is a performance poet, and is currently an editor at a Boston advertising agency. Her work has appeared in The Ohio Review, Field, and other journals.
Miller Williams is the author, editor, or translator of thirty books. Some Jazz a While: Collected Poems was published in 1999. He teaches at the University of Arkansas.
Pamela Yenser‘s poems and essays have appeared in Poetry Northwest, Shenandoah, and several other jour nals. Originally from Wichita, Kansas, she is currently pursuing an MFA at the University of Idaho.