Volume 32, Issue 4
FRONT COVER: William Matthew Prior
PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM WHIPPER, c. 1835
oil
Table of Contents
Contemporary Hungarian Poets, Translated by Nicholas Kolumban: Béla Markó, Ottó Tolnai, János Oláh, Zsuzsa Takács
Confession, Poetry by Rich Lyon
Writing Across the Color Bar: Apartheid and Desire, Non-Fiction by Lynne T. Hanley
Stubborn Weed, Poetry by Sandra Kohler
Alternative Interpretations; If Two Slovenly Herky-Jerky, Poetry by Tom Rockwell
Evading Narrative Myth, Evading Prophetic Pragmatism: Cornel West’s The American Evasion of Philosophy, Non-Fiction by Robert Gooding-Williams
Dorothy Day; Freedom, Poetry by Judith Berke
“The Alphabet is an Abolisionist”: Literacy and African Americans in the Emancipation Era, Non-Fiction by Karen C. Chambers Dalton, with 29 illustrations
Misto, Fiction by L. K. Gornick
Changing Lenses on American Realities, Non-Fiction by Giles Gunn
American Scholars Today, Non-Fiction by Alan Trachtenberg
Sheet of Glass; Let Night Fall, Poetry by Stefanie Marlis
Contributors
Judith Berke‘s collection of poems, White Morning, was published in 1989 by Wesleyan Univ. Press.
Karen C Chambers Dalton, Director, U.S. Office, Image of the Black in Western Art Research Project and Photo Archive, Menil Foundation, Houston, wrote, with Peter H. Wood, Winslow Homer’s Images of Blacks: The Civil War and Reconstruction Years (University of Texas Press, 1988) and was associate editor of The Image of The Black in Western Art, Vol. IV (Harvard University Press, 1989).
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Black Studies at Amherst College, Robert Gooding Williams has published essays on DuBois, Nietzsche, and Black neo-conservatism.
L. K. Gornick has published fiction in various journals and has a Fellowship in creative writing at New York University.
Giles Gunn has published numerous studies of American literature and culture. In 1992 the University of Chicago Press will publish his newest work, Thinking Across the American Grain: Ideology, Intellect, and the New Pragmatism.
Lynne Hanley‘s articles and fiction appear in various magazines. This year the University of Massachusetts Press published her collection, Writing War: Fiction, Gender, and Memory.
Sandra Kohler‘s most recent work, a long poem called ”Mountains,” appeared in The American Poetry Review.
A native of Hungary, Nicholas Kolumban has published five collections of poems. His most recent work, Reception at the Mongolian Embassy, a collection of poems and translations, was published by New Rivers Press.
Rick Lyon‘s poems have appeared in various quarterlies. In 1989 he received the ” Discovery “/The Nation Award.
An independent advertising copy-writer, Stefanie Marlis received the Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award for her collection Slowjoy.
Tom Rockwell has published children’s books as well as poetry. Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University.
Alan Trachtenberg has most recently published Reading American Photographs: Images as History, Mathew Brady to Walker Evans.