Volume 25, Issue 2
FRONT COVER: William Rush
Benjamin Rush, 1812
Table of Contents
The Even Number of Life, Poetry by Dieter Weslowski
Swimmer, Fiction by Paula Keisler
Anniversary II; Hidden Meanings, Poetry by Dabney Stuart
D.H. Lawrence: Psychic Wholeness Through Rebirth, Non-Fiction by John J. Clayton
Nightingale; Reading Li Ch’ing-Chao, Poetry by Willis Barnstone
Queen of the Pickpockets, Poetry by Pauline Uchmanowicz
Stella Benson: Letters to Laura Hutton 1915-19, Edited with an introduction by William Brandon
The Frontier; Home Birth; Saturday Night, Poetry by Frances Driscoll
Night Song, Poetry by Lewis Turco
Days Off, Poetry by Paul Nelson
Door into the Light: John McGahern’s Ireland, Non-Fiction by Shaun O’Connell
A Plan of a Peace Office for the United States, by Benjamin Rush, with a note by Sidney Kaplan and drawings by Leonard Baskin
America, Poetry by Greg Kuzma
Autumnscape, Fiction by Sharon Sheehe Stark
There is That; Weight, Poetry by Robert Swanson
Dangling, Poetry by Andrew Hudgins
Approaching Home Ground: Galway Kinnell’s Mortal Acts, Mortal Words, Non-Fiction by Lorrie Goldensohn
The Natural and Social Sciences, Poetry by Michael Donaghy
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman; The Stranger in the Mirror, Non-Fiction by Leah Blatt Glasser
Flat Spring, Poetry by Frances Driscoll
Contributors
Poet, scholar and translator, WILLIS BARNSTONE teaches at Indiana University. He is a Guggenheim fellow and Pulitzer nominee.
The Complete Prints of LEONARD BASKIN has just been published by New York Graphic Society.
JOHN J. CLAYTON‘s collection of stories, Bodies of the Rich, has just been published by the University of Illinois. He is a novelist and professor of English at the University of Massachusetts.
Currently a poetry editor of Chicago Review, MICHAEL DONAGHY will have a book of poetry, Slivers, published in December by the Thompson Hill Press.
FRANCES DRISCOLL lives with her son in Amherst and is in the MFA program at the University of Massachusetts.
LEAH BLATT GLASSER is a Five-College Associate and is working on a critical biography of M. E. W. Freeman.
Poet, critic, and teacher at Vassar, LORRIE GOLDENSOHN has a book of poems, The Tether, forthcoming from L’Epervier Press.
Currently teaching at Baylor University, ANDREW HUDGINS has published poetry in the New Yorker, Poetry, Hudson Review.
SIDNEY KAPLAN is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Massachusetts and a founding editor of MR.
PAULA KEISLER has been everything from a Red Cross administrator to a college librarian. She has published work in Redbook and The Virginia Quarterly.
GREG KUZMA‘s fifth book of poems, Of China and of Greece, will be published in Fall, 1984.
PAUL NELSON is the director of the Creative Writing Program at Ohio University and his fifth book of poems, Days Off, won the Associated Writing Program’s Series Award.
SHAUN O’CONNELL writes on contemporary fiction for The Atlantic, The Nation, The Boston Globe, et al.
SHARON SHEEHE STARK has published stories in Antioch Review, New England Review and many others.
Current Professor of English at Washington and Lee University, DABNEY STUART has published seven books of poetry and a study of Nabokov.
ROBERT SWANSON is the poetry editor of The California Quarterly and has published poetry in The Hudson Review.
LEWIS TURCO‘s most recent collection of poetry is American Still Lifes. He directs the Program in Writing Arts at SUNY Oswego.
PAULINE UCHMANOWICZ is in the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and has been a waitress for thirteen years.
DIETER WESLOWSKI has published in a number of small magazines. Born in Dusseldorf, he now lives and works in Pittsburgh.