Volume 12, Issue 2
FRONT COVER: Anne Whitney
CHARLES SUMNER (detail)
SCULPTURE
Photo by David A. Batchelder
Table of Contents
The Death of Harry Wells, Fiction by John Meader
The Parade, Poetry by Burton Welcher
Letter to Be Disguised as a Gas Bill, Poetry by Marge Piercy
Sand Creek, 1864, documents
Parkman’s Indians and American Violence, Non-Fiction by Robert Shulman
George Armstrong Custer, Poetry by Steven Osterlund
Count Leo Tolstoy and Violence in the Philippines, Edited by Philip S. Foner
Anne Whitney: Sculptures; Art and Social Justice, Commentary by Elizabeth Rogers Payne; nine illustrations
Tragi-Comedy: A Study in Rossini, Non-Fiction by Greg Audette
The Last Day of October, Poetry by Brendan Galvin
Where Have All the Nuns Gone?; Orgasm, Poetry by Nancy Sullivan
Observer: Walking to Fatima, Non-Fiction by H. R. Weber
A New Letter by Ezra Pound about T.S. Eliot, Commentary by Donald E. Herdeck
After the Game Is Over; Seven Ways of Accounting, Poetry by Daniel Curley
Sylvia and Co.: An Episode Goes Awry, Poetry by Barry Wallenstein
Process and Product: A Study of Modern Literary Form, Non-Fiction by Donald M. Kartiganer
A Young White Man Steps Out of His Shower, Poetry by John Taggart
Instructions from the Dean of Menopause, Poetry by Peter Klappert
His Grandmother, Hospitalized, Poetry by Eugene Robert Minard
IN REVIEW:
The Greening of America, by Charles Derber
On Dramatic Character, by Normand Berlin
Dissent in Russia, by Laszlo M. Tikos
Dada and Surrealist Poetry, by Sally Lawall
Four Books on Rock, by Leonard Berkman
Principles and Persons, by Gerald W. Barnes
Contributors
Greg Audette of Hanover, New Hampshire has been commissioned to do a series of essays on music for MR.
Gerald W. Barnes teaches Philosophy at Amherst College.
Leonard Berkman is a playwright and critic; his radio play “Really, Now” is to be broadcast for the Public Educational Radio Network.
Author of The Base String: The Underworld in Elizabethan Drama, Normand Berlin teaches Shakespeare at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Daniel Curley‘s collection of short stories, In the Hand of Our Enemies, was published by the University of Illinois Press in April.
Charles Derber is actively involved in the anti-war movement in Boston.
Editor of the recently published W. E. B. DuBois Speaks, Philip S. Foner is Professor of History at Lincoln University.
Brendan Galvin‘s poems have recently appeared in numerous publications; he lives in New Britain, Connecticut.
Senior Editor of Black Orpheus, Donald E. Herdeck is preparing a new English translation of René Moran’s Batouala.
Donald M. Kartiganer is a specialist on the novel and writes frequently in this field.
Recipient of the 1970 Yale Series of Younger Poets, Peter Klappert‘s first book, Lugging Vegetables To Nantucket, will be published by the Yale University Press this fall.
Author of Critics of Consciousness, Sally Lawall is Associate Professor of French at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
John Meader, whose novel The Uncertainty Principle nears completion, is currently working with the Welfare Department in Lewiston, Maine.
Californian Eugene Robert Minard‘s poems appeared previously in MR Winter 1970.
Author of three volumes of poetry and a new novel, Dance the Eagle to Sleep, Marge Piercy is on the staff of Leviathan and is active in the New Left.
Steven Osterlund is a poet and painter and is now a resident of Sarnia, Ontario, Canada.
Elizabeth Rogers Payne, curator of the Whitney Papers, is writing a book on the life and art of Anne Whitney.
Robert Shulman lives in Seattle and is a member of the English Department, University of Washington.
Nancy Sullivan has recently returned from Yaddo, where she completed her second manuscript of poems.
John Taggart is editor of Maps; Elizabeth Press will publish a book of his poems in 1971.
Laszlo M. Tikos is a distinguished critic of Russian writers and a close observer of the contemporary Russian scene.
H. R. Weber was Fulbright Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Coimbra, Portugal 1968-69.
Burton Welcher is a poet living in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Barry Wallenstein is the author of Visions and Revisions: An Approach to Poetry, to be published by T. Y. Crowell.