Volume 35, Issue 1
FRONT COVER:
School children in line for daily lunch rations,
Łódź Ghetto, c. 1944. (Altered photograph,
Jerome Liebling: Das Getto in Łódź 1940-1944,
Jüdisches Museum, Löcker Verlag, 1990.)
Table of Contents
Last Bus From Auschwitz, Non-Fiction by Lawrence Douglas
Imagine the Angels of Bread: 1994, Poetry by Martín Espada
The Dry Spell, Poetry by Joanna Goodman
Beauty, Fiction by G.K. Wuori
Hunter, Poetry by Linda Bierds
The Master Surgeon, Poetry by D. Nurkse
An American and Two Africans: In the Mist of Lost Villages, Poetry by Valerie Hurley
Hard Woods; Skimming the Turtle, Poetry by E.J. Miller Laino
Lionel Trilling and the “Being” of Culture, Non-Fiction by Emily Miller Budick
Shopping: The Lipstick Channel, Poetry by Nancy Johnson
Bless This Night; Love Poem, Poetry by Mary A. Koncel
Fat Audrey, Fiction by Risteard na Muileann
Snoop; The Mystery of My Father’s Cleanliness, Poetry by Enid Shomer
Paris, May 1st; Genesis, Poetry by Herman de Coninck #47; #49, Poetry by Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão
In Xanadu, Fiction by Michael Yetman Coach, Poetry by Leonard Kress
Villanelle; Something Like Faith, Poetry by Frances Ruhlen McConnel
Moby Dick and American Slave Narrative, Non-Fiction by Michael C. Berthold
Blues, Poetry by Doug Anderson
WITNESS: Railroad Cars, Non-Fiction by Amy Storrow
Playing Until Forgetfulness Comes, Poetry by Herbert Woodward Martin
Contributors
Doug Anderson, whose work has appeared in Ploughshares and The Virginia Quarterly, received from the latter the Emily Balch Prize in 1993 as well as an NEA Fellowship.
Michael C. Berthold‘s articles on Melville, slave narratives, and American culture generally, have appeared in New England Quarterly, Word & Image, and a number of other publications.
Linda Bierds, who teaches in the writing program at the University of Washington, has published several collections of poetry; her new book, Hunter, is forthcoming from Henry Holt.
Laure-Anne Bosselaar grew up in Brussels; she is at work on a manuscript of original poems as well as on translations of the work of Belgium’s leading poet, Herman de Coninck, author of five books of poetry and two collections of critical essays.
Kurt Brown, founding director of the Aspen Writers’ Conference, has published poems in various quarterlies and reviews.
Emily Miller Budick, professor of American Literature at the Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, has published three books of criticism, most recently Engendering Romance: Women Writers and the Hawthorne Tradition (Yale, 1994).
Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Law, Jurisprudence & Social Thought at Amherst College, Lawrence Douglas has legal essays as well as fiction forthcoming in Mosaic, Law and Society Review and Hudson Review, as well as other journals.
Poet Martín Espada teaches in the English Dept. at the Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has published four books and has received a number of fellowships from the NEA, the Massachusetts Artists Foundation and P.E.N.
Joanna Goodman is a graduate student at the Iowa Writers Workshop.
Valerie Hurley has published work in the Missouri Review, Calyx, and other journals, and is currently working on a novel.
Nancy Johnson‘s poems have appeared in Antioch Review, Carolina Quarterly, Puerto Del Sol, and other magazines.
Mary A. Koncel, who received an MFA from the Univ. of Massachusetts, teaches writing at Smith College; work has appeared in The Denver Quarterly, The Sycamore Review, and other journals.
Leonard Kress‘s work has appeared in The Centralia, Mine Fire, and most recently in APR and Missouri Review.
E.J. Miller Laino has published poems in Poetry East, Slow Dancer, and other magazines.
Alexis Levitin‘s translations of Brazilian and Portuguese poetry and fiction have appeared in over 100 literary magazines; he has received an NEA Translation Grant to translate, among others, Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão, who has published twelve volumes of poetry, five collections of drama, three books of fiction, two literary studies and various translations; this is the first time she has appeared in an American publication.
Poems by Herbert Woodward Martin have appeared in many journals and magazines; he is at work on two libretti, and has edited and performed in a video about Paul Laurence Dunbar.
Frances Ruhlen McConnel, who teaches creative writing at the Univ. of California, Riverside, has published poems and essays in numerous journals.
Risteard na Muileann was born in Ireland and raised in Canada; his work has appeared in The Dalhousie Review, Descant, etc.
D. Nurkse has published three books of poems; his work is forthcoming in Hudson Review, Kenyon Review, and several other quarterlies.
Enid Shomer‘s first collection of stories, Imaginary Men, won the Iowa Short Fiction Award in 1993; her “Pope Joan” poems won the Eunic Tietjens Award from Poetry.
Amy Storrow is currently working for Writers in the Schools, in Houston TX.
G. K. Wuori lives in Presque Isle, ME; his work has appeared in The Chicago Review, and one of his stories was featured in a series of readings at Symphony Space, NYC.
Michael G. Yetman teaches fiction and poetry at Purdue, and has written extensively on 19th- and 20th century writers; he taught at Beijing Univ. in 1981-82.