Volume 11, Issue 4
FRONT COVER: Jean Baptiste Carpeaux
NEGERINDE, 1869
The Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen
Photo by Walter S. J. Swanson
Table of Contents
Culture Without Criticism, Non-Fiction by Louis Kampf
Silent Poem; Going to the Funeral; On a Theme by Frost; Cats, Poetry by Robert Francis
From a Fragment of the Ruins Found at Katabah, Poetry by Robert Stern
American Poetry 1969: From B to Z, Non-Fiction by Daniel Hughes
Negerinde!, Drama by Walter S. J. Swanson
Autograph Book/Prophecy, Poetry by Anne Halley
Facing Land’s End: Facing the Lavish Weather; The Man Who Loved Parties, Poetry by Peter Straub
Communications, Poetry by Grandin Conover and James Scully
Murillo’s Eyes, But Blue, Fiction by Myron Levoy
The Return; Sun Bear; The Chameleon: Nesting, Poetry by Dennis Saleh
Horseman of the Apocalypse, Non-Fiction by William W. Ballard
Lady Luck, Poetry by Ann Gottlieb
A Critique of Jensenism, Non-Fiction by Alvin E. Winder
I Have Come Home, Poetry by Helen Sorrells
IN REVIEW:
The Ugly American Revisited, Non-Fiction by Henry Steck
A Modern Meditation: Wiesel and Memory, Non-Fiction by James Freeman
Parents and Children, Non Fiction by Paul Delany
Patterns of Consciousness in Coleridge, Non-Fiction by David Ferry
Lost Names, Non-Fiction by Roberts W. French
Contributors
William Ballard is a member of the Biology Department, Dartmouth College.
Grandin Conover, playwright and poet, was literary editor of The Nation; his death occurred in June, 1969.
Paul Delany is the author of British Autobiography in the Seventeenth Century.
David Ferry is a Professor of English at Wellesley College. His previous publications include On the Way to the Island (poems), and the Laurel Wordsworth which he edited.
Robert Francis, poet and frequent contributor to MR, lives in Amherst. His forthcoming book The Trouble With Francis: An Autobiography will be published next summer by the University of Massachusetts Press.
James A. Freeman is Managing Editor of English Literary Renaissance.
Roberts W. French‘s work has appeared recently in The Nation, and Prairie Schooner.
Former Assistant Editor at Harcourt, Brace & World, Ann Gottlieb has had poems published in the Harvard Advocate, and Mosaic.
Critic of contemporary literature and Professor of English at Wayne State University, Daniel Hughes is the author of Waking in a Tree (poems). He has just completed his second book of poems, and is at work on a study of Shelley.
Louis Kampf, author of On Modernism, The Dissenting Academy, and The New Left, is a Professor of Literature at M.I.T.
Myron Levoy‘s first novel, A Necktie in Greenwich Village, appeared in 1968; his off-Broadway play, Sweet Tom, ran earlier this year.
A native of the California area, and currently a lecturer at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Dennis Saleh has recently published poems in The Iowa Review, Poetry, and Kayak. He is also co-editor of a collection of contemporary American poetry, Just What the Country Needs, Another Poetry Anthology, to be published this winter.
James Scully is presently residing in Connecticut and has just completed a collection of poems, Avenue of the Americas.
Helen Sorrells, a 1968 member of the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, has published in Commonweal, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, and many others. Her work appears in Borestone’s Best Poems of 1967.
Author of several articles on both British and American politics, Henry Steck is a member of the Political Science Faculty of SUNY at Cortland. His most recent work is a view of Eugene McCarthy.
Robert Stern is currently living in Chicago. Some of his poems have appeared in The Malahat Review, The Red Cedar Review, and Sources.
Now at University College, Dublin, Peter Straub previously taught English at the University School of Milwaukee. His current writing includes work on a book of Victorian novelists, Images of Value, and a book-length poem entitled The Writing Man.
California newspaper man and playwright, Walter S. J. Swanson was chosen by the University of Chicago this year to receive the Sergei Award of “special distinction” for his play appearing in this issue, Negerinde!
Alvin E. Winder is Professor of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts and author of Adolescence: Contemporary Studies.