Volume 11, Issue 3
FRONT COVER: Lucille Clifton
A poem
Table of Contents
Driving Through New England; Being Property Once Myself, Poetry by Lucille Clifton
Decentralization, Community Control, and Revolution, Non-Fiction by Philip Green
Witness: Jack Kerouac’s Funeral, Poetry by Bill Tremblay
The Candidate, Fiction by Anonymous
Casco Bay. Portnoy. The Atlantic, Poetry by Kenneth Rosen
Paul Robeson and Black Identiy in American Movies, Non-Fiction by Thomas Cripps
Poems from the New Cuba, Poetry by Nicolás Guillén, Translated by Robert Márquez
Closing with Nature, Fiction by Norman Rush
(Staff Notes from the Mental Hospital), Poetry by V. H. Adair
Reform of a College, Non-Fiction by Jerome King
1970: Photographs by Madeline Liebling
New Approaches to Conrad, Non-Fiction by Ivo Vidan
Theatre Chronicle: Winter-Spring 1970, Non-Fiction by Seymour Rudin
Letter to the Editor: Commentary on Mandel’s “Reactionary Notes on the Experimental Theatre,” from Richard Schechner
Racing Fragments, Poetry by Jean Russell Larson
A Fat Kid, Poetry by James Sunwall
Comment: Restraining the Police, Non-Fiction by Isadore Silver
The Madman says Goodbye to His Mistrress, Poetry by Herbert Scott
IN REVIEW:
The Poetry of Robert Frost, Non-Fiction by Lewis H. Miller, Jr.
Changing Our Imaginations, Non-Fiction by Lee R. Edwards
Beyond Behaviorlaism?, Non-Fiction by Willam C. Havard
Parentheses, Non-Fiction by Charles Moran
Contributors
V. H. Adair teaches English at California State Polytechnic College, Pomona, and once worked as a biblio-therapist at a mental hospital.
The Greek writer in this issue remains Anonymous as a safeguard against reprisals from the colonels’ regime in Athens.
Selections from Lucille Clifton‘s Good Times, Random House, first appeared in MR. Several other books by her are forthcoming.
The author of several books concerning cinema history, Thomas Cripps is a member of the History Dept. at Morgan State College and is a visiting professor in African and Afro-American Studies at Stanford.
Lee Edwards is a Woman. She teaches English at the University of Massachusetts.
A member of the Government Dept. at Smith College, Philip Green is co-editor of Power and Community: Dissenting Essays in Political Science, Pantheon, 1970.
William Havard is Chairman of the Government Dept. at the University of Mass, and is the author of many books.
Jerome King teaches political science at the University of Mass.
Jean Russell Larson is a freelance writer whose poems have been widely published.
Nineteen-year-old Madeline Liebling has been taking photographs for two years, and will attend San Francisco Art Institute in the fall of 1970.
A graduate of “Operation Second Chance,” Robert Márquez has taught at Brandeis and Harvard, as well as in Peru and Venezuela. He teaches Hispanic American Literature at Hampshire College.
Lewis H. Miller, Jr. teaches English at Indiana University.
Charles Moran teaches English at the University Of Mass.
Kenneth Rosen is a Bostonian who lives in Maine where he writes poems.
Actor, traveler, teacher, Seymour Rudin is a well-known critic of theatre and allied arts.
Since 1963 Norman Rush has been a self-employed dealer in antiquarian books.
Professor of Drama at NYU, Richard Schechner is the Director of Performance Group and is responsible for Dionysius in 69.
Herbert Scott teaches at Western Michigan Univ.
Isadore Silver has an important affiliation with the ACLU and is Chairman of the Government Dept. at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
James Sunwall teaches Humanities at the University of Florida.
Bill Tremblay, who teaches in a junior college, has been writing poetry for many years.
The author of many books and articles, Ivo Vidan teaches English at the University of Zagreb in Yugoslavia. He has taught at the University of Mass., and at Nottingham University, England.