Volume 10, Issue 4

FRONT COVER: Mauricio Lasansky
#28 from THE NAZI DRAWINGS

Table of Contents

On Income Tax Refusal, Poetry by William Whitman

Something Dirty You Could Keep, Fiction by George V. Higgins

The Satirical Rogue Again, Non-Fiction by Robert Francis

Cuban Notes, Non-Fiction by Lisa Peattie

Jim Hill Mustard, Poetry by Carol Ely Harper

The Yukon Flows North, Poetry by Alberta Turner

Aspirin, Fiction by Steve Barthelme

Deasil & Widdershins, Poetry by Robert Kelly


DIRECTIONS IN BLACK STUDIES:

A Political Perspective, Non-Fiction by Mike Thelwell

The Institute of the Black World, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Center, Atl., GA, Statement of Purpose and Program, Fall, 1969.

Anatomy of the Black Studies Movement, Non-Fiction by Martin Kilson

Letter, Non-Fiction by Harold Cruse

Questions and Answers, Non-Fiction by Nathan Hare

Meaningful Black Experience on White Campuses, Non-Fiction by William J. Wilson

Contours of Black Studies, Non-Fiction by Sterling Stuckey


Two Together; Turtle Climbing from a Rock, Poetry by Robert Bly, with woodcuts by Wang Hui-Ming

Ashes, Fiction by Ian MacMillan

Harriet Tubman; My Mother; Lord, While I Sow, Poetry by Samuel Cornish

Greece: Last Year’s Referendum, Non-Fiction by Benjamin Brandreth

After Lunch: Kerouac’s Death Over the Teletype, Poetry by Steven Osterlund

Witness: Teaching in Grand Bassam, Non-Fiction by Efrem Sigel

Letter from Africa, by Trevor N. W. Bush


IN REVIEW:

Women: The Blurred Vision, Non-Fiction by Muriel Haynes

Anthony Powell’s Serious Comedy, Non-Fiction by William H. Pritchard

Assessments of Huxley, Non-Fiction by Jerome Meckier

On Movie Directors, Non-Fiction by Norman Silverstein

The Man from New York, Non-Fiction by Francis Murphy

Contributors

Steve Barthelme lives in Austin, Texas. Robert BLY won the National Book Award for Poetry in 1968; he is editor of The Sixties.

Benjamin Brandreth is a writer living in London.

Trevor N. W. Bush is Joint Head of the Languages Department at Christ’s School, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria.

Samuel Cornish has written a book for children, to be published next spring by Harcourt Brace.

The University of Massachusetts Press is bringing out a paperback edition of Robert Francis‘ poems, Come Out Into the Sun.

Carol Ely Harper is the Editor and Publisher of Experiment magazine and Experiment Press.

Muriel Haynes has reviewed books for The Nation and Saturday Review.

George V. Higgins is Assistant Attorney General for Massachusetts; his story in this issue is part of a novel in progress.

Wang Hui-Ming is in the Art Department at the University of Massachusetts.

Robert Kelly‘s new book of poems, Kali Yuga, will soon be published by Jonathan Cape in London.

Ian MacMillan teaches creative writing at the University of Hawaii.

Jerome Meckier teaches English at the University of Massachusetts.

Frank Murphy of Smith College has recently edited the Penguin Critical Anthology: Walt Whitman.

An American poet now living in Canada, Steven Osterlund has published poems in earlier issues of MR.

William Pritchard of Amherst College has published essays on contemporary writing and a book on Wyndham Lewis.

Efrem Sigel was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Africa from 1964-66.

Norman Silverstein is engaged in writing A Rhetoric of Film, and teaches at Queens College.

A lecturer in English at Oberlin College, Alberta Turner has published poems in a number of literary quarterlies.

Poet, novelist, and translator, William Whitman lives at Point Reyes, California.


BLACK STUDIES

Harold Cruse is Acting Director of the Afro-American Studies Program at the University of Michigan.

Nathan Hare is a member of the Department of Black Studies at San Francisco State College, and has published essays in a number of magazines.

Professor of Government and a Research Associate at the Harvard Center for International Affairs, Martin Kilson has recently co-edited a book on the sentiments of American Negro leaders toward Africa.

Sterling Stuckey is Director of the Oral History Program at the Institute of the Black World in Atlanta.

Now Acting Director of Black Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Mike Thelwell was at Cornell last year.

William J. Wilson‘s forthcoming book, Race and Power, will be published by Macmillan; he teaches in the Sociology Department at the University of Massachusetts.