Volume 1, Issue 3
FRONT COVER: Leonard Baskin
PORTRAIT OF BERTOLT BRECHT, 1952
WOODCUT
Table of Contents
Three Sisters, Fiction by Ben Field
The Crane, Poetry by Firman Houghton
A Negro Student at Harvard at the End of the 19th Century, Non-Fiction by W. E. B. Du Bois
Storm in Gloucester, Poetry by Sonya Dorman
The Provinces, Poetry by Kenneth O. Hanson
The Last Hurrahs: George Apley and Frank Skeffington, Non-Fiction by George Goodwin, Jr.
The Rattle Bag, Poetry by Dafydd ap Gwilym, Translated from the Welsh by Jon Roush
Ode, Poetry by Hywel ap Owain Gwynedd, Translated from the Welsh by Jon Roush
Big Business, Poetry by Leon O. Barron
Diminished Nature, Non-Fiction by William H. Pritchard
ERNST BARLACH:
The Flood, Acts II & V, Drama by Ernst Barlach, Translated by Anne Halley and Alex Page
Eight Sculptures by Ernst Barlach
Letter from Barlach On Kandinsky
Notes on the Barlach Exhibition, by Bertolt Brecht, Translated by Daniel C. O’Neil
Mechanized Doom: Ernest Hemingway and the Spanish Civil War, Non-Fiction by Allen Guttmann
The Way a Ghost Behaves; A Chapel Further West Than Most; Northwest Retrospective: Mark Tobey; Holy Family; The Way a Ghost Dissolves, Poetry by Richard F. Hugo
The Dumb-waiter, Fiction by Joanna Ostrow
Refugees; Bridal Song, Poetry by Louis Ginsberg
Truth About Pictures, Poetry by John Holmes
Prologue, Fiction by James O. Long
The Shot, Poetry by Manuel José Othón, translated by Francis Golffing
Sonnet, Poetry by Anonymous, translated by Francis Golffing
IN REVIEW:
John Wayne and John Barth: The Angry and the Accurate, Non-Fiction by George Bluestone
Martin Esslin On Bertolt Brecht: A Questionable Portrait, Non-Fiction by John Willett
To the Editor: On Ruiz’s “Latin America: Democracy without Reform,” by Massimo Salvadori; rejoinder by Ramón Eduardo Ruiz
Contributors
W. E. B. Du Bois has just completed a new autobiography; its tentative title is A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of My First Century. It is a re-working and extension of his earlier book, Dusk of Dawn.
George Goodwin, Jr. is in the Department of Government at the University of Massachusetts.
William H. Pritchard, who teaches at Amherst College, recently earned his Ph.D. at Harvard with a dissertation on Robert Frost.
Allen Guttmann teaches American Studies at Amherst College.
Ben Field lives in New York; he is the author of a number of novels and short stories.
James O. Long is on duty with the U. S. Navy Public Information Staff.
Joanna Ostrow, whose “The God’s House” appeared in our first issue, is now at Stanford University on a writing fellowship.
Firman Houghton is editor of Audience, a quarterly of literature and the arts.
Sonya Dorman, a native of Massachusetts, now lives on Long Island.
Kenneth O. Hanson is poetry editor of Inland and teaches at Reed College.
Jon Roush is studying at the University of California on a Woodrow Wilson fellowship.
Leon O. Barron teaches English at the University of Massachusetts.
Richard F. Hugo works for Boeing Aircraft in Seattle and is on the staff of Poetry Northwest; other poems of his will appear soon in Poetry and the Yale Review.
Louis Ginsberg teaches at Rutgers, John Holmes at Tufts.
Francis Golffing, of Bennington College, is presently at work on a book about Utopia, with his wife, the poet Barbara Gibbs.
George Bluestone, whose new novel, The Private World of Cully Powers, will be published by Doubleday in July, teaches at the University of Washington.
John Willett is an English critic who has written a book on Brecht.
Massimo Salvadori and Ramon Eduardo Ruiz are in the Department of History at Smith College.
Anne Halley, whose poetry appeared in our winter issue, lives in Amherst.
Alex Page and Daniel C. O’Neil are on the faculty of the University of Massachusetts.
Leonard Baskin, who recently exhibited his sculptures, woodcuts and drawings at the Borgenicht Gallery in New York City, is Associate Professor of Art at Smith College.