Volume 18, Issue 1
FRONT COVER: Jane Lund
SELF-PORTRAIT AS AN ENTERTAINER, 1976
PASTEL
Courtesy of the Pucker-Safrai Gallery, Boston, MA
Table of Contents
The Politics of J. M. Synge, Non-Fiction by Robin Skelton
Boxes, Fiction by Janet Gilman
Childhood; Peaches are Red and Yellow, Poetry by Ameen Alwan, after poems by Carlos Castro Saavedra
On the Political Rhetoric in Our Narrative Tastes, Non-Fiction by George Szanto
The Literature of the American Prison, Non-Fiction by H. Bruce Franklin
The Guidebook, Poetry by Alice Mattison
Paintings by Jane Lund; eight illustrations and a foreword by the artist
Revolution and the Meaning of the Humanities, Non-Fiction by John William Ward
Concerning the Future of Britain; Oyster Lament, Poetry by D. J. Enright
Alain Robbe-Grillet: The Aesthetics of Sado-Masochism, Non-Fiction by John J. Clayton
Divorce; The Words; Thinking About the Future of Jerusalem, Poetry by Shirley Kaufman
Hanging Fire, Fiction by Edith Pearlman
No Witnesses, Poetry by Paul Monette
Sex and Race: The Analogy of Social Control, Non-Fiction by William H. Chafe
Infrared, Poetry by Stuart Dybek
Henry James, Radical Gentleman, Non-Fiction by S. Gorley Putt
Stone Soup, Poetry by C. Itzin
Contributors
Ameen Alwan‘s translations of Latin American poets have appeared in Tri-Quarterly, The Nation, American Poetry Review, and other magazines.
William H. Chafe teaches at Duke University; he is author of The American Woman (Oxford Univ. Press, 1972), and his forthcoming An Unequal Place: Reflections on Women in American Culture will appear in Spring 1977.
John Clayton writes frequently on contemporary fiction; he is author of Saul Bellow: In Defense of Man (Indiana, 1968) and teaches at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Stuart Dybek won an Academy of American Poets prize in 1972; he is a native of Chicago, and teaches creative writing at Western Michigan University.
H. Bruce Franklin is completing a new book, The Victim as Criminal and Artist; now at Rutgers he previously taught at Stanford, and his earlier books include The Wake of the Gods, Future Perfect, and Back Where You Came From.
A native of Massachusetts now living with her husband and three daughters in Maplewood, New Jersey, Janet Gilman is a free-lance writer and editor.
Charles F. Itzin is Academic Director at a language institute in Cali, Colombia; he has an MFA from the University of Oregon and was formerly assistant editor of Northwest Review.
Poet Shirley Kaufman is the author of The Floor Keeps Turning (1969), Gold Country (1973), and A Canopy in the Desert.
Jane Lund lives in Northampton, Massachusetts. Her paintings in this issue of MR are part of a series on New England Artists made possible by support from the Massachusetts Council on the Arts & Humanities.
Alice Mattison has two sons; her poems have appeared in The American Review, Columbia Forum, Ploughshares, and elsewhere; she has taught at Mattatuck Community College (Waterbury, Conn.), Modesto Junior College in California, and at Albertus Magnus in New Haven.
Paul Monette teaches at Milton Academy in Milton, Massachusetts; his books include Sarah (1970) and The Carpenter at the Asylum (Little, Brown, 1975).
S. Gorley Putt is Fellow and Senior Tutor of Christ’s College, Cambridge; he is author of A Reader’s Guide to Henry James (Cornell Univ. Press).
Edith Pearlman writes a weekly column for the Brookline, Mass. Chronicle; married and mother of two, her stories have appeared in Redbook, Carleton Miscellany, and elsewhere.
Carlos Castro Saaveda is a contemporary Colombian poet whose important collections are Obra Selects and Toda la vida es lunes.
Robin Skelton is a distinguished editor and critic of J. M. Synge, and other major Irish writers. Of his seventeen published books of poems, the most recent is Timelight (1974).
George H. Szanto has written frequently for MR; he is Director of the program in Comparative Literature at McGill University in Montreal.
John William Ward is a well-known observer of American cultural history. He serves as President of Amherst College.