Volume 2, Issue 3

FRONT COVER: Gerhard Marcks
SELF-PORTRAIT, 1947

Table of Contents

The Duality of Bygone Jazz, Non-Fiction by Max Margulis

The Never-Last Outpost; Star in the Shed Window; The Winter Lamp, Poetry by James Hayford

The Devil’s Kitchen; The Exile; Bosun’s Song, Poetry by Malcolm Lowry

Apples; JANUARY FEBRUARY WITHOUT DEATH, a painting by a third grader, Poetry by Marilyn Krysl

You’re It, Fiction by Meyer Liben

How Bongo-Bongo Got the Bomb: An African Tale, Poetry by Walker Gibson

A Mandala of Sorts; Okies, Poetry by Carter Revard

St. Marks Preserve, Poetry by Ray Williams

Dreiser and the Plotting of Inarticulate Experience, Non-Fiction by Julian Markels

A Window on the Night, Poetry by David R. Clark

Seven Noon Photographs, Poetry by Robert Wallace

Woman Begging in a Mexican Depot, Poetry by Margaret Nordfors

The Character of American Political Thought, Non-Fiction by Bernard Crick

Chinese Sound, for Chao Tze-Chiang, Poetry by Daniel J. Langton

The Healer; Still Life, Poetry by Hollis Summers

Clearance, 18th Century, Poetry by Norma Lay

Keats and the Heart’s Hornbrook, Non-Fiction by B. L. Reid

Expressway, Poetry by George W. Nitchie

Flight to Detroit, Poetry by Chad Walsh

The Doll’s Speech, Poetry by Joan Sibley

Summer School, Poetry by A. L. Horsman

The Outward Bound, Fiction by E. J. Neely

Orpheus Again and Again, Poetry by Leonard E. Nathan

Sculpture and Reflections, Non-Fiction by Gerhard Marcks; Gerhard Marcks and the Third Reich, Non-Fiction by Adolf Rieth, translated by Rita Hausammann, Ronald Hauser, Peter Heller and Henry A. Lea

Animal Pleasures, Non-Fiction by H. B. Acton

Joyce’s Irish Politics: the Seventh Chapter of Ulysses, Non-Fiction by Stanley Sultan

Emily Dickinson’s Scriptural Echoes, Non-Fiction by Mother Mary Anthony


IN REVIEW:

The Logic of Ethical Thinking, Non-Fiction by David S. Scarrow

Robert Burns Revisited, Non-Fiction by John C. Weston, Jr.

S. N. Behrman’s Portrait of Max, Non-Fiction by Thomas W. Copeland

The People and the Court, Non-Fiction by John P. Roche

Herman Kahn on Thermonuclear War: What Price Survival?, Non-Fiction by Christopher Lasch

Contributors

H. B. Acton, editor of the journal Philosophy, teaches at Bedford College, London.

David R. Clark is now teaching under a Fulbright in Iceland.

Thomas W, Copeland will work in England next year on his long-term project, a ten-volume edition of Edmund Burke’s letters.

Bernard Crick, Lecturer in Political Science at the London School of Economics and a frequent visitor to the States, is writing a history of American political thought.

Walker Gibson is director of Freshman English at NYU.

James Hayford is music supervisor in the Orleans, Vermont, Central School District.

A. L. Horsman is a student at the University of British Columbia.

Marilyn Krysl, a freshman at the University of Oregon, is managing editor of the Northwest Review.

Daniel J. Langton has published poetry in the Nation and Audience,

Norma Lay‘s poems have appeared in Epoch and Voices.

Christopher Lasch teaches history at Roosevelt University.

Meyer Liben‘s “You’re It” is part of an unpublished book of stories on the theme of sports and games.

The late Malcolm Lowry‘s novella, The Forest Path to the Spring, appears currently in New World Writing 18.

Max Margulis, co-founder of Blue Note Records, is completing an evaluation of the European singing tradition.

Julian Markels of Ohio State University is working on a study of Antony and Cleopatra.

Mother Mary Anthony, S.H.C.J., teaches English at Rosemont College.

Leonard E, Nathan recently received a Longview Foundation Award for poems in Perspective.

Stories by E. J. Neely have appeared in British, Canadian and American publications.

George W. Nitchie is the author of Human Values in the Poetry of Robert Frost (Duke University Press, 1960).

The poems of Margaret Nordfors will soon appear in Riverside Poetry IV.

B. L. Reid, whose book on Yeats and tragedy will be published by the University of Oklahoma Press, teaches at Mount Holyoke College.

Carter Revard will be teaching at Washington University, St. Louis, in the fall.

John P. Roche, Chairman of the Politics Department at Brandeis, is currently on a research grant from the Rockefeller Foundation.

David S. Scarrow teaches philosophy at Smith College.

Joan Sibley lives in Berkeley, California.

Stanley Sultan‘s article is related to a work-in-progress on Ulysses.

Hollis Summers is the author of Walks Near Athens (Harper, 1959), Robert Wallace of This Various World and Other Poems (Scribner, 1957).

Chad Walsh will serve as senior Fulbright lecturer in American Literature in Rome next spring.

John C. Weston, Jr. is working on a study of Burns’s anti-Calvinist satires.

Ray Williams works for the Columbia Record Club in New York City.