Volume 10, Issue 1
FRONT COVER: Leonard Baskin
T. S. ELIOT, 1969
DRAWING
Table of Contents
T.S. Eliot and the Life of English Literature, Non-Fiction by F. R. Leavis
John Lied, Poetry by Barry Wallenstein
Lugging Vegetables to Nantuckett, Poetry by Peter Klappert
Doctor Sifer, Fiction by Miriam Goldman
Memos on Biafra, Poetry by Sonia Raiziss
For Andrei Voznesensky, Poetry by Michael Goldman
The Apllonian Way, Fiction by Marcie Miller Stadelhofen
The Confessions of Persephone, Poetry by Fanny Howe
Theo’s Girl, Fiction by Nancy Willard
The Terns; With Angels; A Mother’s Dream, Poetry by Dennis Saleh
Good Times, Poetry by Lucille Clifton
The Dream of Being Possessed and Possessing, Non-Fiction by Millicent Bell
Joey, Dreaming, Poetry by William R. Slaughter
A Note to Camillo Cela, Poetry by Jane Lunin Tokarz
The Gap, A Play by Eugene Ionesco, Translated by Rosette Lamont
An Interview with Eugene Ionesco, Non-Fiction by Rosette Lamont
Theatre Chronicle: Fall 1968, Non-Fiction by Seymour Rudin
Home, Poetry by Gerard A. Mulligan
Learning My Obligations: A Poem for My Children; What You Want You Have to Steal, Poetry by Samuel Kaplan
The Bather, Poetry by Myron Turner
Observer: Gone to Korea, Non-Fiction by Samuel Eisenstein
Reveille, Poetry by Joyce McGaughey Powell
Boy Sleeping at the County Fair, Poetry by Will Stubbs
IN REVIEW:
A Key to the Black Experience in America, Non-Fiction by Bernard W. Bell
Bellow: Logic’s Limits, Non-Fiction by Shaun O’Connell
Wordsworth: Letters and Life, Non-Fiction by William W. Heath
The Edwardians: An Overview, Non-Fiction by Helen H. Vendler
Jean-Jacques, Non-Fiction by Frank L. Kidner, Jr.
Pei’s Histoire D’Histoire, Non-Fiction by Donald C. Freeman
In Praise of Excellence, Non-Fiction by John Unterecker
Contributors
Bernard Bell, at the University of Massachusetts, is writing a dissertation on the Afroamerican novel and its tradition; he will be teaching at Cornell in the fall.
Millicent Bell is the author of Edith Wharton and Henry James (Braziller); she teaches at Boston University.
Lucille Clifton lives in Baltimore, and is the mother of five children; she has not published previously.
Samuel Eisenstein teaches creative writing and English in Claremont, California and has published in many little magazines.
Donald C. Freeman of the University of Massachusetts has published widely on metrics and linguistics; he is editor of the forthcoming Linguistics and Literary Style (Holt, Rinehart & Winston).
Michael Goldman‘s second collection of verse, At the Edge, will be published in August, 1969 (Macmillan); formerly poetry editor of The Nation, he teaches at Columbia.
Miriam Goldman is a frequent contributor of fiction to MR; one of her stories was represented in the O. Henry Prize Stories: 1967.
William Heath of Amherst College is the author of Elizabeth Bowen (Wisconsin) and a study of Wordsworth and Coleridge to be published by the Clarendon Press.
Fanny Howe has published in little magazines, Mademoiselle, The Atlantic Monthly; a collection of stories and a novella, Torty Whacks, will be out this spring (Houghton-Mifflin).
Samuel Kaplan is a sociologist at Berkeley; these are his first published poems.
Frank L. Kidner, Jr., teaches history at San Francisco State College.
Peter Klappert has been a disc jockey in Iowa City, and has appeared in several little magazines.
Rosette Lamont, a frequent contributor to MR, is a member of the Doctoral Faculty at the City University of New York.
F. R. Leavis, one of the major critical and educational voices of our time, is at present Honorary Visiting Professor at York University.
Gerard A. Mulligan teaches at Shaw University in Raleigh, N. C.
Shaun O’Connell is a regular reviewer for The Nation and MR.
Joyce McGaughey Powell is a graduate student at the University of Tulsa.
Sonia Raiziss, poet, translator, critic has published widely and has been Co-editor of Chelsea since 1960.
Seymour Rudin teaches English and dramatic literature at the University of Massachusetts.
Sennis Saleh has published verse in Poetry, Tri-Quarterly, Shenandoah.
William R. Slaughter has published verse in various American, Canadian and English magazines.
Marcie Miller Stadelhofen lives near Lausanne, with her husband and three children.
Will Stubbs teaches fiction writing at St. Vincent College in Pennsylvania.
Jane Lunin Tokarz is a graduate student at Oregon whose first published verse appeared in Intro.
Myron Turner has published widely—criticism, reviews, and numerous poems; he edits The TarPoint, a magazine of poetry and criticism, at the University of Manitoba.
John Unterecker of Columbia University is the author of Voyager: a Life of Hart Crane (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) to be published this spring.
Helen Vendler, Professor of English at Boston University, is the author of a study of Yeats and of Wallace Stevens (forthcoming).
Barry Wallenstein was co-editor of Years of Protest (Pegasus, 1967) and is working on a study of the poetic process.
Nancy Willard won a Hopwood award at Michigan and has published two volumes of verse, one of poetry; she teaches at Vassar.