Volume 32, Issue 1
FRONT COVER: Jerome Liebling
Palestinian Boy in East Jerusalem
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Table of Contents
The Mirror Triptych, Fiction by Yahya Gharagozlou
News from Czechoslovakia, Poetry by Tracy Philpot
Work, Poetry by Frank Gaspar
Two Reconstructions, Two Nations, Non-Fiction by William S. McFeely
Sarah’s Triumvirate, Poetry by Debra Hines
Fear of Simultation: Life, Death, and Democracy in Postwar America, Non-Fiction by Frederick M. Dolan
Ending Equaling; The Second Son’s Escape, Poetry by Glyn Maxwell
Phases of the Moon, Fiction by Deirdre Shanahan
Fairies; Song Pet, Poetry by Terese Svoboda
The Goat Rattle; The Divided Garden; The Hunger Madrigal, Poetry by Naomi Wallace
Rondo On the Rio Negro, Poetry by Turner Cassity
WITNESS Of Willie Mays & Joe McCarthy & Bobby Thompson, Non-Fiction by Cecil Powell
What the Wolves Taught Us, Poetry by Frances Ruhlen McConnel
OBSERVER Monks at Play, Non-Fiction by Kathleen Norris
ARTS IN REVIEW: The Year in Fiction: 1990, Non-Fiction by Rosellen Brown; Recent Drama, Non-Fiction by Robert L. King
Contributors
Rosellen Brown is the author of the novel Civil Wars, together with other novels and volumes of poems, and teaches in the graduate writing program at the Univ. of Houston.
Turner Cassity has published seven poetry collections; the most recent, Between the Chains, has just been published by Univ. of Chicago Press.
While teaching at the Univ. of California, Berkeley, Frederick M. Dolan is co-editing a collection of essays on the Rhetorical Republic: American National Politics and the Postmodern Condition (to be published by Univ. of Massachusetts Press) and finishing a book on European theories of interpretation and American political thought.
Frank Gaspar‘s collection of poems, The Holyoke, won the Samuel French Morse Prize in 1988; his work appears in a number of literary magazines including The Kenyon Review and Prairie Schooner.
Born in Iran, Yahya Gharagozlou now lives in Boston and works for an engineering company. He received degrees in engineering and in writing from the Univ. of New Hampshire.
Debra Hines‘s poems regularly appear in Carolina Quarterly, The Iowa Review, and other literary magazines.
Robert L. King teaches English at Elms College, Chicopee, MA.
Freelance writer and editor Glyn Maxwell lives both in London and New York; a second collection of poems, Out of the Rain, will be published this year.
Frances Ruhlen McConnel teaches creative writing at the Univ. of California, Riverside; she publishes in numerous journals and has just completed her second collection of poems.
William S. McFeely‘s Grant: A Biography was awarded both the Pulitzer Prize and the Parkman Prize; his study of Frederick Douglass has just been published by W. W. Norton.
A Benedictine oblate (associate of a monastery), Kathleen Norris is an editor and book reviewer; she has published several collections of poems.
Cecil Powell is a poet and philosopher whose work has appeared in both the U.S. and Europe.
While completing a Ph.D. at the Univ. of Denver, Tracy Philpot has published work in Antioch Review, River Styx, Black Warrior Review and elsewhere.
Deirdre Shanahan‘s poems and fiction have appeared in various journals including Encounter and The Irish Press; she lives and works in London.
Terese Svoboda will publish a second book of poetry, Laughing Africa (Univ. of Iowa Press) this spring; her work has recently appeared in The New Yorker and The Nation.
Naomi Wallace has recently published poems in The Nation and Salmagundi; she is a Ph.D. candidate at the Univ. of Iowa.