Volume 14, Issue 1
FRONT COVER: Charles or Musya Sheeler
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, c. 1940
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Table of Contents
The Impossible Life of Franz Fanon, Non-Fiction by Albert Memmi, Translation & notes by T. Cassirer & G. M. Twomey
Counterpoint, Poetry by Anne Hussey
The Castellan, Fiction by James Corpora
Waking Up as a Child on a Summer Morning; Hitting Against Cutler, Poetry by Jonathan Holden
The Snowbird, Fiction by William Wiser
The Blue Moon Tavern Songs, Poetry by Sydney Campbell
A Williams Garland: Petals from the Falls, 1945-1950
Sketch, Art by Ben Shahn
Williams’ Black Novel, Non-Fiction by Paul Mariani
Man Orchid: Lives on Air, Fiction by William Carlos Williams, Edited by Paul Mariani
The Later Pound, Non-Fiction by William Carlos Williams, Edited by Paul Mariani
Interview with Williams in 1950, by Emily Wallace
Raymond Chandler & an American Genre, Non-Fiction by E. M. Beekman
Epithalamium; It’s a Woman’s World, George Eliot, Poetry by Daniel Curley
Marcel Ophuls and The Sorrow and the Pity, Non-Fiction by Frederick Busi
Porno Love; the Obscene Caller, Poetry by Philip Dacey
Arts in Review:
American Fiction, 1972, Non-Fiction by Shaun O’Connell
Performing Arts, 1971-1972, Non-Fiction by Seymour Rudin
To the Editor: Reply to Helen Vendler, Non-Fiction by Stanley Burnshaw
Remembering Harvey Swados, Non-Fiction by Hilton Kramer
Contributors
E. M. Beekman, a Libra, was born in the Netherlands, educated at Berkeley and Harvard, and is the author of three books, including Lame Duck (a novel).
Stanley Burnshaw is the well-known poet, critic, translator.
Frederick Busi is the author of L’Esthetique d’André Suarès and articles on Sartre, Cervantes, Beckett.
Sydney Campbell teaches at Springfield Technical Community College; she has published verse in Wormwood Review, Intro 4 and other magazines.
James Corpora has lived in Mexico, now resides in California; his first published story appears in MR.
Daniel Curley teaches writing, mostly at the University of Illinois; a recent collection of stories is In the Hands of Our Enemies.
Philip Dacey, a veteran of the Peace Corps and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, teaches creative writing in Minnesota.
Jonathan Holden is a participating poet in the Colorado Poets-in-the-Schools Program.
Anne Hussey has studied at Boston University with Anne Sexton and at Harvard with Elizabeth Bishop; her work appears in Partisan Review, Sewanee Review, Atlantic and The New Yorker.
Hilton Kramer writes art criticism for The New York Times.
Paul L. Mariani teaches at the University of Massachusetts and is the author of a study of Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Albert Memmi teaches sociology at the Sorbonne.
Shaun O’Connell has published reviews and articles in MR, The Nation, The Village Voice, The American Scholar.
Seymour Rudin has been an MR drama editor and reviewer for many years.
William Wiser has lived most of the past ten years in Belgium and France; his stories have appeared in several anthologies and various journals, including Playboy, Kenyon, Antioch Review.