Volume 32, Issue 3
FRONT COVER: Ilya Efimovich Repin
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoi (Barefoot), 1901
detail of painting (oil on canvas)
“No matter the self-abasement of this giant,” Repin wrote to his daughter, after a visit with the writer, “or his choice of perishable rags to cover his mighty body, Zeus always shows in him, and all of Olympus trembles from the play of his eyebrows.”
(Russia: The Land, The People. University of Washington Press, 1986)
Table of Contents
Never at the Horse at Two; Spoiled Poem, Poetry by Milan Richter, Translated by Jascha Kessler
The Evenki; Running Mates, Fiction by Eugene Dubnov, Translated by the author and John Heath-Stubbs
Tolstoy on the Train to Astapovo, Poetry by Steve Kronen Alicia (Poland, 1942), Poetry by Judith Berke
Germann Lukianov, of Moscow, Non-Fiction by William Minor
My Mother Catalogues the Wrongs, Poetry by Len Roberts
Memory and Creation: Reflections at Fifty, Non-Fiction by Paul Theroux
Ten-Pound Bible; I’m Going Where the Women Point, Poetry by DC Berry
What I Do, Fiction by Edward Hardy
Chameleons Never Lie, Poetry by Dara Wier
“Margaret Garner”: A Cincinatti Story, Non-Fiction by Cynthia Griffin Wolff
How Chicky Went Mad and Killed Monk at Her Father’s Funeral, Poetry by Laurel Speer
A Day at the Beach; Conversation in Camden County, Poetry by Peter Schmitt
A Black New York Newspaperman’s Impressions of Boston, 1883, Non-Fiction by John H. Hewitt
Family Tree, Poetry by Douglas Woodsum Emerson’s Jacuzzi; A Black American in Paris, Poetry by Lee Patton
Multiculturalism Vs. Hegemony: Ethnic Studies, Asian Americans, and U.S. Racial Politics, Non-Fiction by E. San Juan, Jr.
At Dawn, Poetry by Enid Shomer
Contributors
Judith Berke‘s first book, White Morning, was published by Wesleyan Univ. Press. She has recently finished a chapbook, Acting Problems.
D.C. Berry, whose poetry has appeared in Poetry, Chicago Review and other magazines, teaches at The Center for Writers, Univ. of Southern Mississippi.
Born in Estonia, Eugene Dubnov was educated in Russia, Israel and England. His poetry and fiction, written in both Russian and English, have appeared in a large number of journals in this country, Europe and Israel.
Edward Hardy has had fiction published in Seventeen, Kansas Quarterly and other magazines.
A medical writer/editor, John H. Hewitt is a native New Yorker with a long-term interest in local African American history.
Poet, fiction writer and translator, Jascha Kessler is Professor of English and Modern Literature at UCLA.
Steve Kronen‘s poems and essays have appeared in The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner and others.
William Minor–poet, fiction writer, artist, playwright–has recently been contributing jazz features and profiles to various publications. In the summer of 1990 he was a guest of the USSR Composers Union at the First Moscow International Jazz Festival.
Poet and playwright F. Lee Patton is completing a novel, The Last Californians, to be published by Intercontinental Publishers.
Milan Richter was born in Bratislava, and received a Ph.D. in German and English literature. After the publication of his third volume of poetry in 1976, he was forbidden to publish his work and denied membership in the Writers Union (for political reasons) until 1987.
A Guggenheim Fellow, 1990-91, Len Roberts has published several collections of poetry. In 1989 his Black Wings was a National Poetry Series winner.
E. San Juan, Jr.‘s most recent work, From People to Nation: Essays in Cultural Politics, was published by the Asian Social Institute. He teaches at the Univ. of Connecticut and is a specialist in Third World literature, especially Philippine culture and Asian American writing.
Peter Schmitt recently published his first collection of poems, Country Airport, with Copper Beech Press. In 1988 he won The “Discovery”/ The Nation Prize for Poetry, and has received a grant from the Ingram Merrill Foundation.
Enid Shomer‘s poems and stories appear in Poetry, The Paris Review, etc. A new work, This Close to the Earth, will be published by the Univ. of Arkansas Press next year.
Poet Laurel Speer edits Remark and contributes essays and reviews to Small Press Review.
Paul Theroux is presently working on a travel book about various Pacific islands.
Dara Wier‘s latest collection of poems, The Book of Knowledge, was published by Carnegie-Mellon Univ. Press.
Cynthia Griffin Wolff has published biographical studies of Edith Wharton and Emily Dickinson. She is now writing a biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Douglas Woodsum is assistant to the director of the Bread Loaf School of English. His work has appeared in Denver Quarterly, The Southern Review and other journals