Volume 12, Issue 1
FRONT COVER: Elsa Dorfman
CHARLES OLSON, 1969
Gloucester, Mass.
Table of Contents
Phantoms, My Companions, Fiction by Charlotte Delbo; translated By Rosette C. Lamont
Doom, Poetry by Theodore Holmes
A GATHERING FOR CHARLES OLSON:
Dancer and Clerk, Non Fiction by John Finch
A Teacher’s View, Non Fiction by Wilbert Snow
His Poetry, Non Fiction by M. L. Rosenthal
A Preface, Non Fiction by Wm. Aiken
The Morse Recount; Time for Tyner; Mission: 1 January 70, Poetry by Michael Harper
The Man Who Married My Sister, Fiction by Ronald Massa
Pox: A Prognosis, Poetry by William Pitt Root
The Emperor’s Daughter Refuses to Marry; Mickey, the Failed Comedian, Poetry by Graham Petrie
Observer: New Haven—The Outsiders, Non Fiction by Renée Watkins
The Way it Was; The Lost Baby Poem; Richard Penniman, Poetry by Lucille Clifton
Mark Ten Sleeping, Poetry by Warren Thomas
Effective Mussorgsky, Non Fiction by Greg Audette
Rock and the Politics of Frivolity, Non Fiction by Frank D. McConnell
Observer: The System of Economics, Non Fiction by Richard Grossinger
Weight, Poetry by Henry Braun
Afternoon, Poetry by Nina Alonso
Theatre Chronicle: Fall 1970, Non Fiction by Seymour Rudin
IN REVIEW:
The Critic as Friend from Pascagoula, Non Fiction by Paul Mariani
Woodstock: Déjà Vu, Non Fiction by Roger Sale
The Changing Society of Japan, Non Fiction by John Maki
The New Novel in America, Non Fiction by Donald M. Kartiganer
Contributors
William Aiken, faculty member of Lowell Technological Institute, is currently at work on a study of Charles Olson’s poetics.
Nina Alonso is presently at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
Since his tour of duty in Vietnam, Greg Audette resides and writes in Hanover, New Hampshire.
Henry Braun is a familiar contributor to MR.
Author of Good Times, Lucille Clifton has published in Black World and other magazines.
Charlotte Delbo writes from personal experience of Auschwitz.
A member of the Drama faculty of Dartmouth College, John Finch is the author of The Winner (1963) and other plays.
Richard Grossinger is currently at the University of Maine, in Portland.
Member of Iowa’s Writers’ Workshop and author of two books, Michael S. Harper now resides in San Francisco.
Theodore Holmes, who presently resides in Ireland, has recently published his book An Upland Posture with Vanderbilt University Press.
Associate Professor of English at the University of Washington, Donald M. Kartiganer specializes in contemporary fiction.
Rosette Lamont has written and translated frequently for MR.
John M. Maki is a member of the Government Department faculty of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Paul Mariani is currently working on a study of the poetics of William Carlos Williams.
Ronald Massa‘s stories have appeared in New England Review and other magazines.
At work on a study about the culture of the 60’s, Frank D. McConnell is an Assistant Professor of English at Cornell University.
Resident of Canada since 1966, Graham Petrie will publish his latest book The Cinema of François Truffaut in London this spring.
Guggenheim Fellow in Creative Writing, William Pitt Root has published a book of poems and has appeared in The Nation, New Yorker, and others.
Roger Sale of the University of Washington has appeared in MR before, and is presently working on a history of Seattle.
Distinguished poet and critic M. L. Rosenthal is currently Professor of English at New York University; his latest book Beyond Power: New Poems has just been published by Oxford Press.
MR Drama Critic Seymour Rudin is a member of the English Department, University of Massachusetts.
Professor Emeritus Wilbert Snow of Wesleyan University was a teacher and close friend of the poet Charles Olson.
Poems by Warren Thomas have appeared in New England Review, Yankee, and other magazines.
Instructor of Renaissance History at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, Renée Watkins is the author of numerous articles and translations.