Volume 11, Issue 2
FRONT COVER:Jack Coughlin
AUSTIN CLARKE
DRAWING
Table of Contents
Making Scenes in a Liberal Society, Non-Fiction by Henry S. Kariel
The Young Man, Poetry by Thomas Hoffman
Confessions, Non-Fiction by Edward Dahlberg
Operation; For Irving Layton, Poetry by Steven Osterlund
Breaking the Ice, Poetry by Melvin Wilk
The Life and White Horse of Ind. Joe, Fiction by William Brandon
Grandma, Poetry by Richard Dankleff
Dog-Burial, Fiction by Peter Corodimas
Austin Clarke: The Arch Poet of Dublin, Non-Fiction by Richard Weber
A Sermon on Swift, Poetry by Austin Clarke
Recent American Poetry, Non-Fiction by Christopher Ricks
Conversation with Berryman, Non-Fiction by Richard Kostelanetz
Exile, Fiction by Rose Moss
Books and Bodies at San Francisco State, Non-Fiction by Irving Halperin
Folk Tradition, Individual Talent, Non-Fiction by Gene Bluestein
Jim Crow, Zip Coon, Non-Fiction by Alan W. C. Green
IN REVIEW:
Lemmings and Moles, Non-Fiction by Joseph Frank
The Uses of Classical Myth in Modern Drama, Non-Fiction by Jarka M. Burian
Contributors
Gene Bluestein teaches at Fresno State College; his article is part of a longer work on folk tradition and American literary theory.
William Brandon lives in Monterey, California, and is author of the American Heritage Book on American Indians.
Jarka M. Burian is a professor in the Theatre Dept., SUNY at Albany.
Austin Clarke is Ireland’s most distinguished man of letters; in 1968 a special seventieth birthday tribute to him was published by Dolman Press of Dublin.
A member of the English Dept. at Rochester Institute of Technology, Peter Corodimas is editing a collection of short stories for Little, Brown.
Edward Dahlberg is the distinguished author of Bottom Dogs, Because I Was Flesh, and other books. The Confessions of Edward Dahlberg will be published in the fall by George Braziller; the selection from it in this issue is the second to appear in MR.
Richard Dankleff has published poems in a number of journals and teaches English at Oregon State University.
Chairman of the English Dept. at U. Mass., Joseph Frank edited Violence in Contemporary Society for the special number of THE NEW MEXICO QUARTERLY in 1968.
Alan W. C. Green teaches history at Univ. of Calif., Riverside.
A book on holocaust literature by Irving Halperin will be published by Westminster Press this fall; he teaches at San Francisco College.
Thomas Hoffman is a high school English teacher in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
A teacher at the Univ. of Hawaii, Henry S. Kariel‘s most recent book is Open Systems: Arenas for Political Action.
Writer and translator, Richard Kostelanetz has published several books, most recently Metamorphosis in the Arts, published by Abrams.
Rose Moss has taught English in Africa and at U. Mass., Boston, and is presently working on a novel set in South Africa.
A young writer and teacher, Steven Osterlund now lives in Canada.
Christopher Ricks, author of Milton’s Grand Style, teaches at the Univ. of Bristol, England.
Richard Weber has published two collections of poems and is currently spending a year’s leave from Mount Holyoke College, in County Wicklow, Ireland.
Melvin Wilk is working on a novel, Gertrude’s Dream Waltz.