Volume 1, Issue 2
FRONT COVER: Rico Lebrun
CLOWN
Santa Barbara Museum
Table of Contents
Homage to Camus, by Henri Peyre, Stanley Hoffman, Richard Sevrens, Germaine Brée
The Gnostics Speak Again: the Gospel of Truth, Non-Fiction by Virginia Corwin
Snowdrop; Fourth of July, Poetry by Ted Hughes
A Church at Noon, Poetry by Joyce Horner
The Autonomy of Despair: an Essay on Kafka, Non-Fiction by Peter Heller
Poems from the Holy Merriment, Poetry by Arnold Kenseth
Herself and Molly Olliver, a portrait by Arnold Rabin
Paradise Pond, Smith College; Dolphin’s Barn, Dublin, Poetry by David Ridgley Clark
Philosophical Doubts, Non-Fiction by Alice Ambrose
And What Has Carried Us; Dear God, the Day is Grey, Poetry by Anne Halley
A Stroll on Buzzards Bay, Non-Fiction by Ralph A. Lewin
Loss (To V. R. Lang), Poetry by Richard Eberhart
Lullaby for Mothers; Parable, with Feathers, Poetry by Eve Merriam
Tonight, a Miracle of Air; Sing the Loving, Poetry by Raymond Roseliep
Eight Drawings, and Random Notes, Art by Rico Lebrun
Poems from Haruspicating on Valley-View Farm, Poetry by Joseph Langland
Latin America: Democracy without Reform, Non-Fiction by Ramón Eduardo Ruiz
Paisáje, Poetry by Paul Blackburn
John Donne: the Meditative Voice, Non-Fiction by Louis L. Martz
Moving In, Poetry by May Sarton
The Peacocks, Poetry by Lawrence P. Spingarn
In an Orchard, Poetry by Raymond A. Kennedy
Epithalamion for an Elderly Poet, Poetry by Morgan Blum
Pope’s Images of Man, Non-Fiction by Frederick S. Troy
All Birds, Ships and Poetry, Poetry by Herbert A. Kenny
Wonderstrand Revisited: Passages from a Cape Cod Suite, Poetry by Charles Philbrick
Reflections on U.S.A. as Novel and Play, Non-Fiction by Jules Chametzky
The National Hymn Contest and “Orpheus C. Kerr,” Non-Fiction by Cecil D. Eby, Jr.
Contributors
Alice Ambrose (Lazerowitz) of Smith College is the author of numerous articles in Mind, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, and other British and American journals.
Jules Chametzky, whose short stories have appeared in the University of Kansas City Review and The Kansas Magazine, teaches at the University of Massachusetts.
Virginia Corwin, Charles N. Clark Professor of Religion at Smith College, is the author of St. Ignatius and Christianity in Antioch (Yale University Press), to appear in the spring.
Cecil D. Eby, Jr. teaches at Madison College; his “Porte Crayon”: Writer of the Old South (University of North Carolina Press) will appear in the fall.
Peter Heller is in the German department of the University of Massachusetts; his study of Kafka is from a forthcoming book.
Raymond A. Kennedy is a student at the University of Massachusetts.
Ralph A. Lewin is associated with the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole.
Louis L. Martz is chairman of the English department at Yale University.
Arnold Rabin is a producer-writer for NBC; his documentary, The Long Line, was shown at the Edinburgh Film Festival in 1958.
Ramon Eduardo Ruiz, who teaches at Smith College, is a specialist in Latin American history.
Frederick S. Troy is a former professor of English at the University of Massachusetts.
Paul Blackburn, a New Yorker, will publish Brooklyn Manhattan Transit, a volume of poetry, in the spring.
Morgan Blum teaches in the Humanities program at the University of Minnesota.
David Ridgley Clark will lecture this summer at the Yeats Summer School in Sligo, Ireland.
Richard Eberhart will soon publish his Collected Poems, 1936-1960.
Anne Halley, who lives in Amherst, has had part of a new novel published in Audience this winter.
Joyce Homer, who teaches English at Mount Holyoke College, is the author of The Wind and the Rain and The Greyhound in the Leash.
Ted Hughes, author of The Hawk in the Rain, has returned to England after teaching in this country.
Herbert A. Kenny is on the staff of the Boston Globe.
Arnold Kenseth, winner of the first prize in The American Scholar Poetry Contest, appears again in this issue with selections from a volume of verse awaiting publication.
Joseph Langland, who teaches at the University of Massachusetts, has a second volume of poetry ready for the press.
Eve Merriam‘s fourth volume of poetry, The Trouble with Love, will be published by Macmillan.
Charles Philbrick, winner of the Wallace Stevens Poetry Prize in 1958, teaches at Brown University.
Raymond Roseliep teaches at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa.
May Sarton, poet and novelist, is living in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Lawrence P. Spingarn, author of a novel and two volumes of poetry, teaches at Valley College in Los Angeles.
Rico Lebrun, one of America’s great artists, is currently spending a year as a guest of the American Academy in Rome.