Volume 11, Issue 1
FRONT COVER: Thomas Bewick
Two wood engravings
Couplets by Anthony Hecht
Table of Contents
A Stone for a Maker, Poetry by Joseph Langland
St. Pragma, Non-Fiction by Edward Dahlberg
Waiting, Poetry by Joseph Cady
From Songs for an Open Door, Poetry by Jacob Glatstein, Translated by Ruth Whitman
Flaubert: The Politics of Mystical Realism, Non-Fiction by Leo Bersani
Going Blind, Fiction by Nancy Willard
You Are Never Happy; The Land of the Dead; With King in Memphis; Charlie Chaplin Has the Last Laugh, Poetry by George Keithley
The Monogram, Fiction by D. H. Steingass
Cancer, Poetry by Alfredo de Palchi, Translated by I. L. Salomon
The Apprentice Grave-Digger, Poetry by Herbert Scott
Aesopic: Couplets by Anthony Hecht, with wood-engravings by Thomas Bewick and with notes by Philip Hofer
Reactionary Notes on the Theatre, Non-Fiction by Oscar Mandel
Theatre Chronicle, Fall 1969, Non-Fiction by Seymour Rudin
Child Builds Chair; The Rate at Which Things Happen; Philoctetes; Meditation, Poetry by Paul Hannigan
Styron and His Sources, Non-Fiction by Henry Irving Tragle
Sisters, Poetry by Philip Levine
Nightwalking, Poetry by Richard Schramm
W. B. Yeats to John Masefield: Two Letters, Edited by P. Delany
The Supreme Court and Civil Disobedience: a commentary on Marshall Cohen’s “Civil Disobedience,” by Michael Katz, with reply by MarshallCohen
In Memory of Robt. Minard, Poetry by Eugene R. Minard
Witness: Theme in Fiction, Non-Fiction by Gerald Warner Brace
IN REVIEW:
Good Times, Non-Fiction by Roberts W. French
Cashing In on Blackness, Non-Fiction by Bernard Bell
The Roman Catholic Church, Non-Fiction by Robert Hanlon, S. J.
The Making of a Counter Culture, Non-Fiction by Norman Birnbaum
Nelson Goodman’s “Languages of Art,” Non-Fiction by Ann Ferguson Brentlinger
Theodore Roethke, Non-Fiction by Jerald Bullis
Contributors
Bernard Bell teaches in the English Department at the University of Massachusetts.
Leo Bersani‘s essay “From Bachelard to Barthes” appeared in The American Literary Anthology 2.
Norman Birnbaum‘s forthcoming book, Intellectuals, Culture and the New Politics, will be published by Oxford University PreSS.
Gerald Warner Brace has published nine novels; the essay in this issue is from his new book, The Stuff Of Fiction.
Ann Brentlinger teaches philosophy at the University of Massachusetts.
Poems by Jerald Bullis have appeared in several magazines.
Joseph Cady teaches at Rutgers.
Marshall Cohen edited the Modern Library edition of The Philosophy of John Stuart Mill.
Edward Dahlberg is the distinguished author of Can These Bones Live, Bottom Dogs, Because I was Flesh, and other books.
Paul Delany will soon join the faculty of Simon Fraser University in Vancouver.
Roberts French lives in North Hadley, Mass.
Jacob Glatstein‘s poems have been translated into many languages.
Father Robert Hanlon received the Licentiate in Sacred Theology from Weston College.
Paul Hannigan has published several books, most recently Laughing (Houghton Mifflin).
Anthony Hecht‘s “Improvisations on Aesop” appears in his most recent book of poems, The Hard Hours, published by Atheneum in 1967.
A Research Associate at the Carolina Population Center, Michael Katz has published essays on law and the social sciences.
George Keithley has published poems in a number of journals including MR.
Joseph Langland was for many years associated with Rolfe Humphries in the Amherst poetry readings at the Amherst Art Center.
Philip Levine‘s most recent book of poems, Not This Pig, was published by Wesleyan.
Oscar Mandel is Professor of Humanities at the California Institute of Technology.
Eugene Minard is a graduate student at the University of California, San Diego.
Seymour Rudin teaches drama at the University of Massachusetts.
I. L. Salomon received an award from the National Council on the Arts in 1968.
Born in India, Richard Schramm returned there as a Visiting Fulbright Lecturer in 1968-69.
Herbert Scott teaches at Western Michigan University.
David Steingass‘s first book of poems, Body Compass, was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press.
Henry Tragle is working on a book-length compilation of source material concerning The Southampton Insurrection.
Ruth Whitman, a Scholar in Poetry at the Radcliffe Institute, is the recent winner of the di Castagnolo Award and the Jewish Book Council Korner Award.
A teacher at Vassar, Nancy Willard has published a book of poems and a book of short stories.