Volume 16, Issue 3
FRONT COVER: Leonard Baskin
JANUS
DRAWING
Table of Contents
The Provisional IRA and the Limits of Terrorism, Non-Fiction by W. H. Van Voris
It is Not So Easy, Poetry by Jayne Berland
Anatomy Lesson: A School for Boys, Poetry by Stephen Dunn
The Wedding, Poetry by T. Hunter Wilson
In a Very Low Voice, Words that Can Hardly Be Understood, Fiction by Rolaine Hochstein
First Act, Poetry by Steven Bauer
Naked Poetry, Poetry by Peter Cooley
Politics and Love, Fiction by John Clayton
If Only, Poetry by Candice Ward
Crossing the Plains, Poetry by Debora Greger
RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT: BICENTENNIAL GATHERING I
A More Perfect State: Thoreau’s Concept of Civil Government, Non-Fiction by William A. Herr
From the Cape in Winter; The Explorers, Poetry by Gray Burr
A Third Party Emerges in Vermont, Non-Fiction by Michael Parenti
The Library, The University and a Humane Society, Non-Fiction by Frederick S. Troy
The Red Room, Non-Fiction by Milton Mayer
Baseball and the American Dream, Non-Fiction by George Grella
Norwegian Rivers, Poetry by Joseph Langland
Round, a verse drama by Peter Viereck
Surviving McCarthyism: Doctorow’s Book of Daniel, Non-Fiction by Barbara L. Estrin
A Legacy, Non-Fiction by Arlyn Diamond
Innocents at Home, Non-Fiction by Cynthia Griffin Wolff
Contributors
Steven Bauer, who received an MFA from U. Mass., has published poems in various journals.
Jayne Berland‘s poetry has appeared in a number of quarterlies, including MR.
John Clayton‘s last story for MR was included in both Best American Short Stories and in O. Henry Prize Stories.
Peter Cooley‘s first book, The Company of Strangers, will be published in October.
Arlyn Diamond co-edited American Voices, American Women and is working on the alliterative Morte Arthure.
Looking for Holes in the Ceiling, Stephen Dunn‘s first collection of poems, was published by U. Mass. Press.
Rolaine Hochstein‘s stories have appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies. In 1974, her work was included in O. Henry Prize Stories.
Barbara Estrin is working on a book about the foundling in Renaissance English literature; she teaches at Stonehill College.
The poems of Debora Greger have appeared in earlier issues of MR, as well as in Poetry Northwest and other magazines.
William Van Voris‘s essay in MR is based on research done for his new book, Violence in Ulster.
Peter Viereck‘s verse drama is a chapter from his new book, to be called Applewood.
Candice Ward received an MFA from U. Mass.
T. Hunter Wilson spent two years teaching in Laos; his work has appeared before in MR.
The fiction of Edith Wharton is the subject of Cynthia Griffin Wolff‘s forthcoming book, A Feast of Words.
BICENTENNIAL GATHERING I
Gray Burr‘s recent book, A Choice of Attitudes, was published by Wesleyan U. Press.
George Grella is a failed shortstop, a Dodger fan, now a regular in the English Dept. lineup at the University of Rochester where he is a specialist in popular literature.
William A. Herr teaches philosophy at Loyola University of Chicago.
Poet Joseph Langland teaches at U. Mass, at Amherst; his poetry often affirms his Norwegian background and the American midwest of which he is a native.
A long time contributor to The Progressive, Milton Mayer‘s latest book, The Nature of the Beast, was published by U. Mass. Press. He is presently Adjunct Professor of Journalism at Hampshire College.
Michael Parenti‘s latest book is Democracy for the Few; he is visiting professor of Government at Cornell.
Frederick S. Troy is a Contributing Editor of The Massachusetts Review, and a Trustee of the University.