Volume 33, Issue 4
FRONT COVER: D. J. Waldie
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Table of Contents
WITNESS: Suburban Stories, Fiction by D. J. Waldie, reflections and eight photographs
Knowing the Way, Poetry by Ioanna-Veronika Warwick
The Word and Wondering Violent, Poetry by Naton Leslie
Promise, Fiction by Jim Janko
The Explosion, Poetry by Jane Bennett Bridgers
Master Mechanics and Evil Wizards: Science and the American Imagination from Frankenstein to Sputnik, Non-Fiction by Glen Scott Allen
Two Poems, Poetry by Simon Perchik
The Pilgrimage, Fiction by Robbie Clipper Sethi
The Names, Poetry by Judith Berke
Lessons in the Blues, Non-Fiction by Douglas Whynott
Sister Life, Poetry by Deirdre Shanahan
Lament for the Death of Parsifal Hoolig; Lament for the Nape of Tom Steward’s Neck; Errata, Poetry by Juan Gelman, Translated by Otis Bilodean
Polo, Poetry by Mark Nepo
Contributors
A member of the English Dept. at Towson State University, Baltimore, Glen Scott Allen has published essays and fiction in various journals. A collection of his short stories will appear next year.
Judith Berke‘s first collection of poems was published by Wesleyan University Press in 1989.
Otis Bilodeau recently graduated from Hampshire College.
Jane Bennett Bridgers lives and works in New Orleans.
Juan Gelman lives and writes in Argentina.
Jim Janko, a medic in the Vietnam War, now lives in San Francisco and works as a night watchman on Alcatraz Island.
Naton Leslie teaches English and Creative Writing at Siena College, Loudonville, NY; his poetry has recently appeared in Cimarron Review, International Poetry Review, and California Quarterly.
Mark Nepo has published two books of poetry, God, the Maker of the Bed, and the Painter and Fire Without Witness; “Polo” is from a new collection, Not Ours To Give.
Simon Perchik has published ten books of poetry and individual poems in many periodicals including Partisan Review, The Nation and The New Yorker.
Robbie Clipper Sethi, who teaches creative writing and literature at Rider College in New Jersey, has published stories in Mademoiselle, Ascent and Atlantic, as well as poems and essays.
Deirdre Shanahan, living in London, has written fiction, poetry and plays. She is currently working on a project with the Women’s National Touring Company.
D. J. Waldie, a city official in a Los Angeles suburb, lives in the house his parents bought in 1946. Other selections from Suburban Stories have appeared in Kenyon Review, and his book-length translation of Stéphane Mallarmé’s A Throw of the Dice Never Will Abolish Chance was published by Greenhouse Review Press in 1991.
Ioanna Veronika Warwick was born in Poland and came to America when she was seventeen. Her poetry and her translations of Polish poetry have appeared in many journals; her own poetry has received several awards.
Douglas Whynott teaches literature and writing courses at the Univ. of Massachusetts and at Mount Holyoke College. His book about migratory beekeepers, Following the Bloom, was published by Stackpole Books and by Beacon Press (Concord Library Series, 1992). He has finished a book about studying piano under Sammy Price, who died in 1992.