Volume 10, Issue 4
FRONT COVER: Mauricio Lasansky
#28 from THE NAZI DRAWINGS
Table of Contents
On Income Tax Refusal, Poetry by William Whitman
Something Dirty You Could Keep, Fiction by George V. Higgins
The Satirical Rogue Again, Non-Fiction by Robert Francis
Cuban Notes, Non-Fiction by Lisa Peattie
Jim Hill Mustard, Poetry by Carol Ely Harper
The Yukon Flows North, Poetry by Alberta Turner
Aspirin, Fiction by Steve Barthelme
Deasil & Widdershins, Poetry by Robert Kelly
DIRECTIONS IN BLACK STUDIES:
A Political Perspective, Non-Fiction by Mike Thelwell
The Institute of the Black World, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Center, Atl., GA, Statement of Purpose and Program, Fall, 1969.
Anatomy of the Black Studies Movement, Non-Fiction by Martin Kilson
Letter, Non-Fiction by Harold Cruse
Questions and Answers, Non-Fiction by Nathan Hare
Meaningful Black Experience on White Campuses, Non-Fiction by William J. Wilson
Contours of Black Studies, Non-Fiction by Sterling Stuckey
Two Together; Turtle Climbing from a Rock, Poetry by Robert Bly, with woodcuts by Wang Hui-Ming
Ashes, Fiction by Ian MacMillan
Harriet Tubman; My Mother; Lord, While I Sow, Poetry by Samuel Cornish
Greece: Last Year’s Referendum, Non-Fiction by Benjamin Brandreth
After Lunch: Kerouac’s Death Over the Teletype, Poetry by Steven Osterlund
Witness: Teaching in Grand Bassam, Non-Fiction by Efrem Sigel
Letter from Africa, by Trevor N. W. Bush
IN REVIEW:
Women: The Blurred Vision, Non-Fiction by Muriel Haynes
Anthony Powell’s Serious Comedy, Non-Fiction by William H. Pritchard
Assessments of Huxley, Non-Fiction by Jerome Meckier
On Movie Directors, Non-Fiction by Norman Silverstein
The Man from New York, Non-Fiction by Francis Murphy
Contributors
Steve Barthelme lives in Austin, Texas. Robert BLY won the National Book Award for Poetry in 1968; he is editor of The Sixties.
Benjamin Brandreth is a writer living in London.
Trevor N. W. Bush is Joint Head of the Languages Department at Christ’s School, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria.
Samuel Cornish has written a book for children, to be published next spring by Harcourt Brace.
The University of Massachusetts Press is bringing out a paperback edition of Robert Francis‘ poems, Come Out Into the Sun.
Carol Ely Harper is the Editor and Publisher of Experiment magazine and Experiment Press.
Muriel Haynes has reviewed books for The Nation and Saturday Review.
George V. Higgins is Assistant Attorney General for Massachusetts; his story in this issue is part of a novel in progress.
Wang Hui-Ming is in the Art Department at the University of Massachusetts.
Robert Kelly‘s new book of poems, Kali Yuga, will soon be published by Jonathan Cape in London.
Ian MacMillan teaches creative writing at the University of Hawaii.
Jerome Meckier teaches English at the University of Massachusetts.
Frank Murphy of Smith College has recently edited the Penguin Critical Anthology: Walt Whitman.
An American poet now living in Canada, Steven Osterlund has published poems in earlier issues of MR.
William Pritchard of Amherst College has published essays on contemporary writing and a book on Wyndham Lewis.
Efrem Sigel was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Africa from 1964-66.
Norman Silverstein is engaged in writing A Rhetoric of Film, and teaches at Queens College.
A lecturer in English at Oberlin College, Alberta Turner has published poems in a number of literary quarterlies.
Poet, novelist, and translator, William Whitman lives at Point Reyes, California.
BLACK STUDIES
Harold Cruse is Acting Director of the Afro-American Studies Program at the University of Michigan.
Nathan Hare is a member of the Department of Black Studies at San Francisco State College, and has published essays in a number of magazines.
Professor of Government and a Research Associate at the Harvard Center for International Affairs, Martin Kilson has recently co-edited a book on the sentiments of American Negro leaders toward Africa.
Sterling Stuckey is Director of the Oral History Program at the Institute of the Black World in Atlanta.
Now Acting Director of Black Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Mike Thelwell was at Cornell last year.
William J. Wilson‘s forthcoming book, Race and Power, will be published by Macmillan; he teaches in the Sociology Department at the University of Massachusetts.