Volume 7, Issue 2
FRONT COVER: August Rodin
HEAD OF A MAN WITH BROKEN NOSE
SCULPTURE
Table of Contents
The Achievement of Anna Freud, Non-Fiction by Robert Coles
Some Walks on the Edge, Poetry by Peter Viereck
A Round of History, Poetry by Carroll Arnett
Crane’s Visionary Lyrics: The Way to the Bridge, Non-Fiction by R. W. B. Lewis
Poetry, Landscape, The Banks of a River, Poetry by Abraham Sutskever, Translated by Ruth Whitman
Offspring; Meditation, Poetry by James Arlington Jones
Debate on a Rainy Afternoon, Fiction by Bharati Mukherjee
Burned Flowers of the Field, Poetry by Jonathan Rappoport
Yeats and the Easter Rising, Non-Fiction by Edward Malins
Morning on Easter Island, Poetry by Jon Anderson
My Mother’s Husband, Poetry by Tony Connor
The Certainty, Poetry by George Bower
Rodin’s Walking Man, essay by Albert Elsen, 16 pages of illustration
American Poetry in 1965, Non-Fiction by Josephine Miles
Rhodesia: Background, Crisis, and Future, Non-Fiction by Edward Feit
To the River, Poetry by Philip Appleman
Under the West Side Highway, Poetry by Philip Booth
Seeing Someone, Poetry by Harold Witt
Observer: Fish Are Jumping an’ the Cotton Is High: Notes from the Mississippi Delta, Non-Fiction by Mike Thelwell
In Review:
Eugène Delecroix, Non-Fiction by Frank Trapp
The Circus Animals’ Desertion: J. Hills Miller’s Poets of Reality, Non-Fiction by William Pritchard
South African Tragedy, Non-Fiction by Trevor Bush
Communist Purges and Purgatory, Non-Fiction by Laszlo Tikos
The Text of Tuckerman’s Poems, Non-Fiction by Mordecai Marcus
Documentation: Debate on Vietnam Policy, Non-Fiction by Henry Steel Commager and Alvin Friedman
Contributors
Jon Anderson is a member of the University of Iowa Poets Workshop.
Philip Appleman teaches English at Indiana.
Carroll Arnett has published in Antioch Review, Minnesota Review, Evergreen.
Philip Booth received the Lamont prize in 1957 for Letter from a Distant Land; Weathers and Edges, a new volume, will appear shortly.
George Bower lives in Boston and is a reviewer for The Christian Science Monitor.
Banished from South Africa, the Reverend Trevor N. W. Bush is resident at the Cathedral School, Cardiff, Wales.
Robert Coles is an authority on child psychiatry, working at the Harvard University Health Services. He has published in Partisan, Atlantic, Harper’s, New Republic.
Henry Steele Commager is on leave from Amherst this semester, where he is Professor of History.
Tony Connor is engaged in research at Manchester University; he will be a visiting lecturer at Buffalo this summer.
Hyman Edelstein is a freelance photographer in Northampton, Massachusetts.
Albert Elsen is the author of Rodin and Professor of Art History, Indiana University.
Edward Feit, of the Political Science Department at the University of Massachusetts, is the author of South Africa: the Dynamics of the African National Congress.
Until he recently returned to private law practice, Alvin Friedman worked for the Department of Defense.
James Arlington Jones is associated with Collier’s Encyclopedia.
R. W. B. Lewis is Professor of American Studies at Yale.
Edward Malins has lectured at the Yeats International Summer School, Sligo.
Mordecai Marcus teaches at the University of Nebraska.
Josephine Miles, of the University of California, Berkeley, will soon publish Styles in the Language of Prose and Poetry.
Bharati Mukherjee (Mrs. C. L. Blaise) will join the Department of English at McGill this fall.
William Pritchard‘s book on Wyndham Lewis will soon be published by Twayne.
Jonathan Rappoport graduated from Amherst College in 1963 and now lives in Los Angeles.
Mike Thelwell is in the University of Massachusetts Fine Arts program in writing after his work for S.N.C.C. and the Mississippi Freedom Democrat Party.
Laszlo Tikos teaches Russian literature at Massachusetts.
Frank Trapp is Professor of Art at Amherst College.
Peter Viereck, history professor at Mount Holyoke as well as a Pulitzer Prize winner in poetry, is the author of a dozen books, including New and Selected Poems (Bobbs-Merrill) due this fall.
Ruth Whitman is Director of the Poetry Workshop and Poetry Reading Series at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education. Her latest volume is Blood and Milk Poems.
Harold Witt has appeared twice previously in MR; his last volume of verse was Beasts in Clothes.