Volume 12, Issue 4
FRONT MATTER: Armand Balboni
THE DONNER PARTY
Amherst, Mass.
Table of Contents
Greece: An American Problem, Non-Fiction by Andreas Papandreou
Seven Poems, Poetry by Iosip Brodsky, Translated by James Scully
The Son of God and His Sorrow, Fiction by Fernandes, Translated by Joyce Carol Oates
MR Annual Review of Poetry: “The Home Book of Modern Verse 1970”, Non-Fiction by Josephine Miles
The Donner Party, Poetry by George Keithley
Process and Product: A Study of Modern Literary Form (Part II), Non-Fiction by Donald M. Kartiganer
Fuck the Astronauts, Poetry by James Tate
Acres; Adultery, Poetry by Ray Amorosi
Theatre Chronicle: Winter-Spring 1971, Drama by Seymour Rudin
IN REVIEW: The Seamless Web, Non-Fiction by Helen Vendler
Thinkers and Writers, Writers and Thinkers, Non-Fiction by George Cumo
John Hawkes: Paradise Gaining, Non-Fiction by Charles Moran
Contributors
Ray Amorosi, whose poems have appeared in Field, Sumac, Choice, and others, presently teaches English at North Adams State College, Mass.
Iosip Brodsky is the renowned Russian dissident poet.
Author of four novels, George Cuomo resides and teaches in California. His latest book is The Hero’s Great-Great-Great-Great-Great Grandson.
Donald M. Kartiganer, familiar to MR readers from the Spring 1971 issue, teaches literature at the University of Washington, Seattle.
The Donner Party, George Keithley‘s long epic poem will be published in its entirety this winter by George Braziller & Co. Mr. Keithley’s work has previously appeared in Commonweal, The New York Times, Harper’s, The Yale Review, and others.
Josephine Miles, MR‘s annual poetry reviewer, will soon publish two new books on poetry and prose: Kinds of Affection, and Style and Proportion.
Currently at work on a critical study of John Hawkes, Charles Moran is a member of the English Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Winner of the 1970 National Book Award for Fiction, Joyce Carol Oates lives in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
Andreas Papandreou, noted economist and exiled Greek Minister of State, is leader of the Panhellenic Liberation Movement and spokesman for the Center Union Party of Greece. He is presently Professor of Economics at York University, Toronto.
Seymour Rudin, MR’s theatre critic, currently teaches drama at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
James Scully‘s most recent collection of poems, Avenue of the Americas, will be published soon by the University of Massachusetts Press.
Winner of the 1966 Yale Younger Poets Series, James Tate has just published his seventh book of poems, Hints to Pilgrims.
Author of works on Yeats and Stevens, Helen Vendler is winner of the 1969 MLA Lowell Prize and presently is Professor of English at Boston University.