Volume 10, Issue 3
FRONT COVER: Leonard Baskin
BARRELING THE MOON
WOOD ENGRAVING
Reprinted from A Treasury of Yiddish Stories,
ed. by Irving Howe and Eliezer Greenberg,
by the permission of The Viking Press 1953, 1954
Table of Contents
Teaching Literature in a Discredited Civilization, Non-Fiction by Allen Grossman
A Burgher of Ashes, Poetry by Ralph Salisbury
Central H.S. ’52, Poetry by Paul Nelson
Hello, Hello Henry, Poetry by Maxine Kumin
Shmatte, or Father Abraham, Fiction by L. S. Simckes
The Island; Chestnut Picking, Poetry by John Clarke
Digging, Poetry by William Aiken
Third Day, Poetry by Dallas M. Lemmon, Jr.
Silence, Revolution, and Consciousness, Non-Fiction by Ihab Hassan
You, Clark Gable; Ribera’s Holy Family, Poetry by Rick DeMarinis
Thurman Dreaming in Right Field, Poetry by Paul Zimmer
Julian, Fiction by Juan José Hernández, Translated by H. E. Francis
The Man Defines His Relation to Sylvia, Poetry by George Chambers
Tumescences, Remembrances, Poetry by Elisavietta Ritchie
Black Mutiny on the Amistad, including a facsimile of A History of Amistad Captives(1840), and explanatory notes by Sidney Kaplan
The Photo, Poetry by L. Bruce
Cats, Poetry by Richard D. Hathaway
N. O. Brown and the Future of Man, Non-Fiction by Richard Noland
Rendezvous in the Forest, Poetry by Paul Smyth
Marko’s: A Vegetarian Fantasy, Drama by Kenneth Bernard
The Pope’s Right Knee, Drama by Robert Bagg
Theatre Chronicle: Winter-Spring 1969, Non-Fiction by Seymour Rudin
Summer’s End, Poetry by Richard R. O’Keefe
Witness: Something of a Memoir, Non-Fiction by George V. Higgins
Dragonflies, Poetry by Bernard Louis De Koven
IN REVIEW:
New Black Playwrights, Non-Fiction by Doris Abramson
Singer’s Contraries, Non-Fiction by Irving Malin
A Net of Revelations: Frank O’Connor, Non-Fiction by Shaun O’Connell
Roman Writers for Modern Readers, Non-Fiction by James Freeman
Contributors
Doris Abramson, of the University of Massachusetts, is author of Negro Playwrights in the American Theatre 1925-1959.
William Aiken teaches at Lowell Technological Institute, and is doing a study of Charles Olson’s poetics.
Robert Bagg is a poet and translator and member of the editorial board of MR.
Kenneth Bernard lives in New York City.
L. Bruce has published two books of poems, has a novel in progress, and lives in San Francisco.
A poet and agriculturist, George Chambers has published widely and works experimental acreage at the Raine Chive Farms of Solon, Iowa.
John Clarke is a graduate of Kenyon and Stanford; his poems have appeared in The Atlantic and New Yorker.
Bernard Louis de Koven lives in Pennsylvania; his special interests are poetry and improvisational theatre.
H. E. Francis has published two collections of Spanish translations.
James A. Freeman teaches English at the University of Massachusetts.
Allen Grossman is author of Poetic Knowledge in the Early Yeats, and professor at Brandeis.
Ihab Hassan is Professor of English and Director of the Center for the Humanities at Wesleyan University.
Richard D. Hathaway taught at Western Reserve University and is now at SUNY at New Paltz.
Juan José Hernández has published several volumes of short stories and poems.
George V. Higgins is Deputy Ass’t Attorney General in Massachusetts.
Sidney Kaplan is editor for the Gehenna Press of Northampton, Mass, and member of the original board of editors of MR.
Maxine Kumin is a well-known poet who lives in Newton Highlands, Mass.
Dallas M. Lemmon, Jr. is a poet and short story writer, teacher of literature, and sometime geologist.
Irving Malin is author of Saul Bellow’s Fiction and editor of Critical Views of Isaac Bashevis Singer.
Rick Demarinis lives and teaches in Montana.
Paul Nelson teaches poetry at Goddard College.
Richard Noland teaches at the University of Massachusetts.
Shaun O’Connell is a frequent reviewer for Nation and other magazines.
Richard R. O’Keefe divides the year between summers in Nova Scotia and winters at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
Elisavietta Ritchie is a writer and translator who teaches French at American University.
Seymour Rudin is a veteran student of the theatre; he teaches at the University of Massachusetts.
Ralph Salisbury, on leave as editor of Poetry Northwest, will be visiting professor at Fresno State College next year.
L. S. Simckes teaches writing at the Harvard Graduate School of Education; his novel Seven Days of Mourning was published by Random House.
Paul Smyth‘s poems appear frequently in leading journals and magazines.
Paul Zimmer is Assistant Director of the University of Pittsburgh Press.