Volume 9, Issue 3
FRONT COVER: Henry O. Tanner
THE BANJO LESSON
oil
Reproduced by permission of The
Administration Council of Hampton Institute
Table of Contents
Through the Prism of Folklore: The Black Ethos in Slavery, Non-Fiction by Sterling Stuckey
Remembering the Third Avenue El, Poetry by Jack McManis
The Blessing; The Plane Coming In, Jerking To Land; If There Was A Camera For The World, Poetry by Michael Goldman
Tell Martha Not To Moan, Fiction by S. A. Williams
“Take A Message” or The Indecisive; The Salmon, Poetry by Rolfe Humphries
The Night School, Fiction by John W. Corrington
The Lover Questions His Love, Poetry by Gray Burr
Inwood, Poetry by Dorothy Hughes
All The Way From Thermopylae, Poetry by Norman Hoegberg
Rediscoveries of Karl Marx, Non-Fiction by Vaclav Holesovsky
Rotogravure, Poetry by Erin Jolly
Waking, Poetry by Jeremy Robson
Poetry Reading, Poetry by Robert A. Davies
J.J. Tissot, fourteen etchings by J.J. Tissot, commentary by Michael Wentworth
Old Melville’s Fable, Non-Fiction by B. L. Reid (Idea!), Poetry by John Hollander
The Stone of Ampurias, Poetry by John Unterecker
You Too? Me Too—Why Not?, Poetry by Robert Hollander
The Revolution in Philosophy, Non-Fiction by Alice Ambrose
Figures in Snow, Poetry by W. R. Moses
Open-eyed; Tempera Poem, Poetry by John Knight
Talisman, Poetry by William Sallar
Frank Yerby as Debunker, Non-Fiction by Darwin T. Turner
IN REVIEW:
On Report From Iron Mountain, Non-Fiction by George Kateb
Peter Viereck: Durable Poet, Non-Fiction by Joseph Jacobsen
Into The Pressure Cooker, Non-Fiction by Richard Kostelanetz
Creeley and Rexroth: No Simple Poets, Non-Fiction by Donald Junkins
Maritain in Opposition, Non-Fiction by Frederick Busi
Think Back on the Thirties, Non-Fiction by Allen Guttman
Witness: John Sterling—Bookseller, Non-Fiction by Chard Powers Smith
Contributors
Alice Ambrose teaches philosophy at Smith College and is co-author, with her husband Morris Lazarowitz, of several books on logic.
A volume of poems by Gray Burr will be published by Wesleyan.
Frederick Busi teaches French at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
John William Corrington has published three books of poetry and two novels.
Poems by Robert A. Davies have appeared in various publications.
On the English faculty at Columbia, Michael Goldman will have a second volume of poems published by Macmillan this month.
Allen Guttmann is the author of The Conservative Tradition in America.
Poems by Norman Hoegberg have appeared in Kauri, Choice, Sixties.
Vaclav Holesovsky is at present Director of the program in Atlantic Studies, University of Massachusetts, Freiburg.
Types of Shape by John Hollander, a new book of poems, will be published in the fall by Atheneum.
Robert Hollander teaches in the Romance Language Department of Princeton.
Dorothy Hughes‘ poems have been published in The New Yorker and Harpers.
Rolfe Humphries has retired from Amherst College and lives now in California.
Josephine Jacobsen is the co-author of critical studies on Beckett, and Ionesco and Genet.
Erin Jolly has published fiction as well as poetry.
“The Graves of Scotland Parish,” by Donald Junkins, won MR‘s 1967 Jennie Tane Award; one of these poems will appear in American Literary Anthology II.
Professor of Political Science at Amherst College, George Kateb is the author of Political Theory: Its Nature and Uses.
John Knight lives in Penzance, Cornwall; his first book of poems, Straight Lines and Unicorns, was published by Cresset, London.
Richard Kostelanetz is the author of The Theatre of Mixed Means (Dial) and editor of The Young American Writers. Louis Lyons is former Curator of Harvard’s Nieman Fellowships.
Jack McManis teaches English at Pennsylvania State University.
Identities, by W. R. Moses, was published by Wesleyan in 1965.
B. L. Reid teaches at Mount Holyoke College and is the author of books on Gertrude Stein and W. B. Yeats. Jeremy Robson is a Londoner; he is the author of 33 Poems (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1964).
William Sallar, at C.C.N.Y., has had poems in Epos, The Canadian Forum, Gourmet.
Chard Powers Smith is the author of many books, the most recent on Edwin Arlington Robinson.
Sterling Stuckey teaches at Northwestern.
Darwin T. Turner is Dean of the Graduate School of North Carolina A. and T.
John Unterecker, Professor of English at Columbia, has published poetry, criticism and a children’s book.
In the fall, Michael Wentworth will be acting curator of prints at the Smith College Museum.
S. A. Williams has been an administrative intern in the office of the president of Miles College, Birmingham; she has published previously with college literary journals.