Volume 7, Issue 4
FRONT COVER: from the collection of MRS. HENRY T. CURTISS
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Table of Contents
The Embers of Easter, Non-Fiction by Connor Cruise O’Brien
Alabama Tenants: 1937, Poetry by William Corrington
Toward Black Liberation, Non-Fiction by Stokely Carmichael
Mozart in Thetford, Poetry by William Hollis
Bright An’ Mownin’ Star, Fiction by Mike Thelwell
Berlin: The Ruined Countess, Poetry by Florence Elon
Incident in Ashland, Oregon, Poetry by Dale Nelson
The Expulsion, Fiction by Raymond Kennedy
Technology and the Future of Art, Non-Fiction by Arthur Efron
Angels, Poetry by Paul Newman
Miners, Poetry by Morton Marcus
Song of the Half-Willing Insomniac, Poetry by Albert S. Cook
The Trial Begins for Soviet Literature, Non-Fiction by E. J. Simmons
Manet’s Caricatures: Olympia, by Mina Curtiss, with 25 reproductions
A Letter from Catherine Cornaro, Poetry by David Posner
The Perennial Myth: Writing American History Today, Non-Fiction by A. S. Eisenstadt
The Orderly: P.M., Poetry by Steven Orlen
As Others See Us, Poetry by Jon Stallworthy
The Greatness of “Gatsby,” Non-Fiction by Charles Thomas Samuels
My Father; A Carol, Poetry by John Fenton
Christmas 1964, Poetry by Jon Klimo
Drunks on Christmas Eve; Monsoon, Poetry by Richard Schramm
Riddled, Poetry by A. M. Sampley
IN REVIEW:
Wendell Willkie, Non-Fiction by Frederick S. Troy
The New Radicalism, Non-Fiction by Milton Cantor
The Relevance of Literary Biography, Non-Fiction by Elaine Marks
The Tragic Sense of Newton Arvin, Non-Fiction by Arnold Goldman
Contributors
Milton Cantor teaches history at the University of Massachusetts.
Stokely Carmichael is the national chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
Albert S. Cook teaches English at Buffalo.
William Corrington teaches at Loyola University in New Orleans.
Mina Curtiss recently translated D. Halevy’s My Friend Degas.
Arthur Efron is editor and founder of Paunch.
A. S. Eisenstadt is the editor of American History: Recent Interpretations and The Craft of American History (1966).
A native New Yorker, Florence Elon now lives in San Francisco.
In 1960, John Fenton revised and adapted Poe’s The Black Cat for a film which was shown at Cannes.
Arnold Goldman lectures on American Studies at Sussex.
William Hollis teaches Humanities at Drexel.
Raymond Kennedy teaches English at Arms Academy in Shelburne Falls, Mass.
Jon Klimo is currently residing in Boston.
Morton Marcus has published in Orient, Perspective, and Poetry Northwest.
Elaine Marks is the author of Colette (1966).
Dale Nelson‘s poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry Northwest, Canadian Forum, Montparnasse Review.
Poems by Paul Newman have been published by Antioch Review, Chelsea, Carleton Miscellany, Poetry.
Conor Cruise O’Brien was Regents’ Professor at N.Y.U. last year.
Steven Orlen is with the Writers’ Workshop at Iowa.
Davis Posner is at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
A. M. Sampley lives in Denton, Texas.
Charles T. Samuels received MR‘s first Newton Arvin prize for literary criticism.
Richard Schramm teaches at San Fernando Valley State College.
Ernest J. Simmons has written critical biographies of Pushkin, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Chekhov.
Jon Stallworthy is the author of Between the Lines: Y eats’s Poetry in the Making.
Mike Thelwell is a graduate student at the University of Massachusetts and a member of SNCC.
Frederick S. Troy, formerly Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, is now one of its Trustees.