Volume 24, Issue 4
FRONT COVER: John Banvard
Missouri Views, 1849
Fur Co. Steamer; Assiniboin Indians & the Domes; The Brick Kilns
Table of Contents
My Life on the Snowplow, Fiction by Castle Freeman, Jr.
It Seemed a Shame, Poetry by Marea Gordett
The Separation Agreement, Poetry by Kathleen Spivack
At Vassar I Taught, Poetry by Michael Benedikt
Flies, Dancing at Sundown, Poetry by John Hay
A Cold War Elegy, Non-Fiction by Robert Keefe
I Thought I Heard a White-Haired Man, Poetry by Pattiann Rogers
With a Distant Lighting; After the Rain, Poetry by Yannis Ritsos, Translated by Martin McKinsey
Surveying the Vast Profound: The Panoramic Landscape in American Consciousness, Non-Fiction by Henry M. Sayre
Self-Portrait in Pained Glass, Poetry by Frederic Will
The Wolf, Poetry by Bill Tremblay
Elk Hunt, Fiction by Craig Lesley
Goodnight Irene, Poetry by Paul Mariani
For the Boy Reading PLAYBOY, Poetry by Debra Bruce
Molly Bloom and Literary Character, Non-Fiction by Paul Schwaber
With Kate at the River, Poetry by Alice Mattison
Harrow Street at Linden, Fiction by Joyce Carol Oates
Sunday Dinner; Description, Poetry by Dan Masterson
Climbing, Fiction by John Hay
Awake with Asthma, Poetry by Michael McFee
Ridding Ourselves of Macbeth, Non-Fiction by Lisa Low
Contributors
MICHAEL BENEDIKT‘s The Badminton at Great Barrington, has appeared recently from the University of Pittsburgh Press.
A recipient of an NEA grant in 1982, poet DEBRA BRUCE has poems forthcoming from the University of Arkansas Press.
CASTLE FREEMAN, JR., lives and writes near Brattleboro, Vermont.
MAREA GORDETT lives in Taos, N.M.
Poet as well as the author of six books of prose, the distinguished naturalist, JOHN HAY, served for twenty-five years as President of the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History.
ROBERT KEEFE weathered five years in the late 1950’s in Air Force intelligence, and now teaches literature at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
CRAIG LESLEY, who lives in Portland, Oregon, teaches at Clackamas Community College in Oregon City, and also at the Oregon Writer’s Workshop. Winterkill from Houghton Mifflin is his first novel.
LISA LOW is a doctoral student at Massachusetts.
PAUL MARIANI has published books of poetry with Godine, and with Grove Press. A book of essays on modern and contemporary poetry is forthcoming in fall 1984. He is the recipient this year of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Co-director of the Poetry Writing Program at Rockland Community College of SUNY, DAN MASTERSON has a volume of poems, On Earth As It Is, University of Illinois Press 1978.
ALICE MATTISON, married and the mother of three sons, teaches at Albertus Magnus College in New Haven, Connecticut; Alice James Books is the publisher of a book of her poems entitled Animals ( 1980).
MICHAEL McFEE won a 1981-1982 Pushcart Prize, and The Nation magazine’s 1980 “Discovery” Prize.
MARTIN MCKINSEY‘s translations from the Greek of Odysseus Elytis will be forthcoming from Pomegranite Editions.
JOYCE CAROL OATES currently teaches at Princeton; her latest book is Mysteries of Winterthurn.
The Greek poet, YANNIS RITSOS, has been mentioned frequently as a candidate for a Nobel Prize. The selections here were written while he was living under house arrest, on the island of Samos, in 1969-70.
PATTIANN ROGERS lives in Stafford, Texas. Princeton University Press has published her first book The Expectations of Light.
HENRY M. SAYRE is at Oregon State University.
Director of the College of Letters at Wesleyan University, PAUL SCHWABER also teaches at the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis.
Recipient of many grants and prizes, the poet KATHLEEN SPIVACK directs the Advanced Writing Workshop in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
BILL TREMBLAY has a new and selected volume of poems forthcoming from L’Epervier Press.
FREDERIC WILL, author of numerous books of poems, is also editor of the journal of translation, Miaomegas.