Volume 10, Issue 2
FRONT COVER: Géricault
Table of Contents
Civil Disobedience in a Constitutional Democracy, Non-Fiction by Marshall Cohen
The Hands of the Man with the Red Beard, Poetry by Phyllis Thompson
Zibbie; Damp Cashmere, Poetry by Robert Bagg
The Cave is Full of Soldiers, Fiction by John J. Clayton
Untitled poem, Poetry by Jon Silkin
The Voyeurs of Beersheba, Poetry by John Halberstadt
Social Criticism and Illusions of the Open Society, Non-Fiction by Peter Clecak
Apology, Poetry by John N. Miller
The Innocence of Oedipus and the Nature of Tragedy, Nonfiction by Thomas Gould
Art as Confrontation: The Black Man in the Work of Géricault, Commentary by Klaus Berger and Diane Chalmers Johnson
Black Jazz Artists: the Dark Side of Horatio Alger, Non-Fiction by Frederick W. Turner, III
Storm, Poetry by Fred Berry
Survival in Discontinuity: Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts, Non-Fiction by Renée Watkins
More Notes from a Dark Street; Once, Poetry by Michael D. Lally
Bare Trees, White Chickens; Three Acts: A Scene, Poetry by Frank Sauers
In Mem.: Mac; Runaway, Poetry by Richard Dankleff
IN REVIEW:
Jasper and the Great Philosophers, Non-Fiction by Leonard H. Ehrlich
Angus Wilson’s No Laughing Matter, Non-Fiction by Jay L. Halio
Dylan Thomas’ Notebooks and Letters, Non-Fiction by J. D. O’Hara
A Descriptive Approach to Mahler, Non-Fiction by Henry A. Lea
Witness: On Being Absurd!, Non-Fiction by J. S. Bixler
Contributors
Robert Bagg is the author of a book of poems (Madonna of the Cello), essays on Sappho and Catullus, and translations of Hippolytus and The Bacchae (forthcoming); he teaches English at the University of Massachusetts.
Klaus Berger is University Distinguished Professor of Art History at the University of Kansas.
Fred Berry is a professor of geology and geophysics at Berkeley; his poems have appeared in Evergreen Review.
J. S. Bixler has been a professor of religion and philosophy at several New England colleges and universities and was President of Colby College (194i2-1960).
John J. Clayton is the author of Saul Bellow: In Defense of Man (Indiana, 1968); he will be teaching at the University of Massachusetts in the fall.
Marshall Cohen teaches philosophy at Rockefeller University.
Peter Clecak of the University of California, Irvine, is books editor of The Monthly Review and has contributed to Studies on the Left, The Nation, The Socialist Register.
Richard Dankleff has published poems in Atlantic and Mademoiselle.
Leonard H. Ehrlich teaches philosophy at the University of Massachusetts; he is the author of a book on Karl Jaspers (forthcoming) and an edition of Kant’s essays on natural theology (Yale).
Thomas Gould is an editor of Arion and a former Guggenheim Fellow; he has taught at St. Andrews and Cambridge, and is now Professor of Classics at the University of Texas.
John Halberstadt teaches at Western Michigan University.
Jay L. Halio of the University of Delaware is the author of Angus Wilson (Oliver and Boyd, 1964).
Diane C. Johnson is a PhD candidate in art history at the University of Kansas.
Michael D. Lally, a former jazz musician, has published verse in many little magazines; he lives in Iowa City.
Henry A. Lea, a former music editor of MR, teaches German at the University of Massachusetts.
John N. Miller has published poems in The Antioch Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Commonweal and elsewhere.
J. D. O’Hara has edited a forthcoming collection of essays on Samuel Beckett; he teaches at the University of Connecticut.
Frank Sauers is a young poet living in Boston whose work has appeared in several little magazines.
Jon Silkin is co-editor of Stand (London) and the author of several volumes of verse, including Nature with Man; he is a visiting professor at Iowa this year.
Frederick W. Turner, III, teaches literature and folklore at the University of Massachusetts.
Phyllis Thompson teaches poetry at the University of Hawaii; her first book, Artichokes and Other Poems will be out in June.
Renée Watkins is a specialist in renaissance and reformation history at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.