Volume 13, Issue 3
FRONT COVER: Jerome Liebling
STATE SENATOR
PHOTOGRAPH
Table of Contents
Modes of Political Drama, Non-Fiction by Darko Suvin
Retour Des Martinets, Poetry by André Spire, Translated by Stanley Burnshaw
The White Flock, Poetry by Anna Akhmatova, Translated by Stanley Burnshaw
Me Destierro…, Poetry by Miguel de Unamuno, Translated by Stanley Burnshaw
Ballade of the Surfers, Poetry by Barry Spacks
The Ram’s Horn, Fiction by Julius Lester
Langley Porter Neuro Psychiatric Institute 3 A.M., Poetry by Jane Lunin
Bubble Gum, Poetry by Richard E. McMullen
Hiding Places, Fiction by Kay Johnson Moran
Selections from Deutschland, Deutschland über alles, Poetry by Kurt Tucholsky, Translated by Anne Halley
Riots, Racism, and Hysteria, Non-Fiction by William Cohen
Avenue of the Americas; Walking with Deirdre; “Splendid-Throned, Deathless Aphrodite,” Poetry by James Scully
Relevance and Deauthorization in America’s Polity, Non-Fiction by J. Peter Euben
Political Portraits, Photographs by Jerome Liebling
The Whirlpool of Sickness and Health, Poetry by Mario Luzi, Translated by I. L. Salomon
A Bias Seeking Sight: The Music Criticism of W. J. Turner, Non-Fiction by Greg Audette
The Midnight Tennis Match; If You See This Man; The 5 Room Apartment, Poetry by Thomas Lux
“What’s All the Cryin’ About?” The Films of Frederick Wiseman, Non-Fiction by Patrick J. Sullivan
Firing a Field, Poetry by Joyce Carol Oates
Observer: The Wearing of the Green, Non-Fiction by Robert Tucker
The Death of Kenneth Patchen, Poetry by Steven Osterlund
IN REVIEW:
Ballet Chronicle, by Seymour Rudin
Pauline Kael and Going Steady, by Jack Shadoian
The Annotated Lolita, by Dean Flower
Triumph or Disaster?, by Ellsworth Barnard
Katherine Anne Porter, by Jan Pinkerton
Dionysus in New York, by Rosette Lamont
To the Editor: Response to Critics, by Laura Riding; Reply by M. L. Rosenthal
Contributors
Greg Audette, music critic and familiar contributor to MR, lives in Hanover, New Hampshire.
Ellsworth Barnard is the author of Shelley’s Religion, and two definitive works on E. A. Robinson.
1971 winner of the National Institute of Arts and Letters’ literature award, Stanley Burnshaw will soon publish his eleventh book, In the Terrified Radiance, with George Braziller Co.
William Cohen, who professes at Hope College in Holland, Michigan, has written on Jefferson and slavery in the Journal of American History.
Assist. Prof, of Politics, J. Peter Euben is teaching at Crown College, University of Santa Cruz, California.
Dean Flower, author of Counterparts, an anthology of American short stories, is currently at work on a study of Nabokov.
Anne Halley‘s full translation of Tucholsky will appear in the illustrated Deutschland, Deutschland über alles forthcoming from the UMass. Press.
Rosette Lamont‘s new drama interview, “Barrault’s Rabelais,” has just appeared in Drama and Theatre.
Well-known author and lecturer Julius Lester, whose work has been seen in Evergreen and Liberation, is presently a visiting Professor in the Afro-American Studies Dept. at UMass., Amherst.
Photographer Jerome Liebling, who teaches at Hampshire College, attended the recent Democratic Convention as press photographer for the Spanish Caucus.
Jane Lunin teaches creative writing at Providence College, Rhode Island.
Tom Lux‘s new collected poems, Memory’s Hand grenade, will be published this summer by Pym-Randall Press.
Richard McMullen‘s poems have appeared in Commonweal, Chelsea, and The New York Times.
Kay Johnson Moran helps edit a literary magazine with patients at Northampton (Mass.) State Hospital.
Recipient of the 1970 National Book Award, Joyce Carol Oates previews, with her poem “Firing a Field,” her newest book, Angel Fire.
Steven Osterlund is the recent winner of the Abraham Woursell Writing Award from the University of Vienna, Austria.
Jan Pinkerton is with the faculty of English at Chicago State.
Seymour Rudin, MR‘s most frequent drama critic, will be on sabbatical from the University of Massachusetts this fall.
I. J. Salomon‘s work has also appeared previously in MR‘s pages.
Avenue of the Americas, new collected poems by James Scully, is being published by the University of Massachusetts Press.
Music, film, and literature critic, Jack Shadoian, is currently teaching English at UMass., Amherst.
Barry Spacks, winner of the St. Botolph’s Arts Award, this year has published both a new novel, Orphans, and a collection of poems, Something Human.
Patrick J. Sullivan is the new director of the Education Media Center, UMass., Amherst.
Darko Suvin teaches at McGill University in Montreal. Robert tucker has been recently in Ireland.
William Whitman‘s poems have previously appeared in Malahat Review, Sumac, and The North American Review, and he is at work on translations from French and German.