Volume 30, Issue 3
FRONT COVER: Hodart
Last Supper, Apostle
Table of Contents
Chowder, Fiction by Frank Gaspar
Resurrecting Phillipe Hodart, Non-Fiction by Elias Friedensohn
From “Les Ravages,” Poetry by Henri Michaux, Translated by David Ball
Paradise Outgrown, Non-Fiction by Stanley Sultan
Why I Can’t, Poetry by Susan Donnelly
The Ritual, Poetry by Louise Erdich
Thinking Bayonets, Non-Fiction by Lynne Hanley
Night Driving, Poetry by Joyce Carol Oates
Pony-Boy, Fiction by Catherine Reid
Sunday Night in the Forest, Poetry by Linda Taylor
Stephen Jay Gould’s Vision of History, Non-Fiction by Louis P. Masur
Crazy Baby, Poetry by Ingrid Hughes
Dorothy Parker’s Letter to Alexander Woolcott, Non-Fiction by Dorothy Parker, Edited by Arthur F. Kinney
Contributors
DAVID BALL, Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Smith College, has published a number of translations as well as his own poems; he is at present working on an anthology of Henri Michaux’s work.
SUSAN DONNELLY‘s collection, Eve Names the Animals, won the Samuel French Morse Prize in 1985; she has completed a new book, Love and the Pilgrims.
A new collection of poems by LOUISE ERDRICH, Baptism of Desire, will be published by Harper & Row in January 1990.
Professor emeritus of Art, Queens College, ELIAS FRIEDENSOHN has had twenty-nine one man shows in this country and has published numerous articles on other artists.
FRANK GASPAR was born and raised in Provincetown, and has just completed a novel set in the Portuguese community there.
LYNNE HANLEY teaches at Hampshire College and writes fiction and essays on contemporary literature and culture.
Poems and fiction by INGRID HUGHES have appeared in West Branch 21/22, Manhattan Poetry Review and other little magazines.
ARTHUR F. KINNEY has published a biographical and critical study, Dorothy Parker, and is now editing Parker’s unpublished work.
This year Oxford University Press published LOUIS P. MASUR‘s Rites of Execution: Capital Punishment and the Transformation of American Culture, 1776-1865.
HENRI MICHAUX has written of the poems translated in this issue, “Pages that came to me while looking at paintings by the insane, men and women in difficulty, who could not surmount the insurmountable.”
JOYCE CAROL OATES‘ poem, published here, will be included in her new collection, The Time Traveler, to be published by Dutton this winter.
CATHERINE REID‘s fiction has appeared in Sojourner and Sinister Wisdom; her non-fiction has appeared in various magazines and in anthologies, including Reweaving the Web of Life: Feminism and Non-violence.
Professor of English at Clark University, STANLEY SULTAN writes fiction and has published two literary studies, The Argument of Ulysses (Ohio State, 1964) and Eliot, Joyce and Company (Oxford, 1987).
UNDA TAYLOR‘s poems have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Poetry Northwest, Nimrod and many other literary magazines.
Endpiece “Bears” are by ALEXANDER PERTZOFF, an artist who lives in Northampton, MA