Volume 24, Issue 3
FRONT COVER: Leonard Baskin
Socrates Among the Weeds
DRAWING, PEN AND INK
Table of Contents
Going Back: A Letter to Myself, Fiction by John O’Brien
Farmer in Welsh Fog, Poetry by Peter Sharpe
Jorge Luis Borges: Interview–Some Personal Memories: The Labyrinth and the Tiger, Non-Fiction by William Barnstone, Translated by Nicomedes Suárez Araúz and William Barnstone
The Sacred Hearth Fire, Poetry by Amy Clampitt
Blood, Bread, and Poetry: The Location of the Poet, Non-Fiction by Adrienne Rich
With Horror, Sir, Sincerely, Poetry by Lucile Adler
New England Addresses, Poetry by Jonathan Bishop
Socrates Among the Weeds: Blacks and History in Carpentier’s EXPLOSION IN A CATHEDRAL, Non-Fiction by Roberto Gonzáles Echevarria
The Pull of Gravity, Poetry by Sue Owen
Testament, Poetry by Philip Fried
The Axe, the Axe, the Axe, Fiction by Eric Wilson
The Blue Snake, Poetry by Rachel Hadas
Feeding Time at the Tiger House, Poetry by Tom Wayman
The Rapacity of One Nearly Buried Alive: The Novels of Philip Roth, Non-Fiction by Barbara Koenig Quart
The Holyoke, Poetry by Frank Gaspar
Art Lesson, Poetry by John Tagliabue
Quartet, Fiction by Elizabeth Adams
Floorplans, Poetry by Maxine Scates
Open, Poetry by Linda Bierds
On Harvey Swados, Non-Fiction by Irving Howe
Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Universe (Or Somewhere Else), Poetry by Richard Haven
My Father’s House, Poetry by Andrew Hudgins
Sterling Brown: Poems to Endure, Non-Fiction by Samuel W. Allen
Near Black Mesa, Poetry by Sheila Dietz
Air and Being: The Psychedelics of Pollution, Non-Fiction by Harold Fromm
The Children of New England; Provincetown, Early March, Poetry by Ted Benttinen
The Perfect Day, Poetry by James Wood
Contributors
ELIZABETH ADAMS‘ story “Quartet” in this issue won the 1981 Univ. of Arkansas Award for Fiction.
LUCILE ADLER is the author of The Traveling Out (Macmillan), The Society of Anna (Lightning Tree Press), and other poems.
SAMUEL W. ALLEN has recently retired from teaching at Boston University.
TED BENTTINEN is an oceanographer on the staff of the Rhode Island University graduate School.
WILLIAM BARNSTONE is the editor of Modern European Poetry (Bantam Books).
LINDA BIERDS is a poet-in-the-schools for the Washington State Arts Commission.
JONATHAN BISHOP, professor of English at Cornell, has written on Emerson.
JORGE LUIS BORGES is the distinguished Latin American poet.
A graduate of Grinnell College, AMY CLAMPITT was a Guggenheim fellow in 1982.
SHEILA DIETZ lives in Branford, Conn.
ROBERTO GONZÁLEZ ECHEVARRÍA is Chairman of the Spanish and Portuguese Department at Yale.
PHILIP FRIED is founder and editor of The Manhattan Review.
HAROLD FROMM writes on literature and philosophy; and also on environmental subjects in the hope to influence legislation.
FRANK GASPAR studied at Bread Loaf, and is currently teaching at Long Beach City College.
Poet, essayist, critic, and now teaching at Rutgers (Newark), RACHEL HADAS publishes frequently in leading journals.
RICHARD HAVEN, of the Univ. of Massachusetts (Amherst) is a specialist on Coleridge and 19th century literature.
IRVING HOWE is the author of World of Our Fathers, Politics and the Novel, and other distinguished books.
ANDREW HUDGINS is a teaching Fellow at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop.
JOHN C. O’BRIEN was a Stegner Fellow in creative writing at Stanford.
SUE OWEN is a graduate of Goddard College.
BARBARA KOENIG QUART, Assoc. Prof, of English at College of Staten Island, writes on film and literature.
ADRIENNE RICH has published eleven books of poetry; a retrospective selection, including uncollected and new poems, will be published in 1984 by W. W. Norton.
MAXINE SCALES is poetry editor of Northwest Review.
PETER SHARPE‘s new book of poems, Lost Goods and Stray Beasts, is forthcoming from Rowan Tree Press in spring 1984.
NICOMEDES SUÁREZ ARAÚZ, translator, teacher, and author of four volumes of poetry, is Director of Intercultural Studies at Simon’s Rock of Bard College.
JOHN TAGLIABUE was recently awarded a Rockefeller Foundation Grant for study in Italy.
TOM WAYMAN of Nelson, British Columbia has published a Canadian collection of his poems with Thistledown Press, Saskatoon.
ERIC WILSON teaches writing at the UCLA Extension; his first short story was published in MR.
JAMES WOOD has degrees from the Univ. of Oregon and M.I.T.
The editors regret the omission from our previous issue (Women: The Arts 2) of acknowledgements to Lucille & Walter Fillin of Rockville Center, N. Y., and to Mrs. Alan Gruskin of the Midtown Galleries, N.Y.C. We are grateful also to the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College.