Volume 13, Issue 4
FRONT COVER: Vita Giorgi
ARAB WOMAN SINGER
PAINTING
Table of Contents
Not Europe Only, Non-Fiction by Conor Cruise O’Brien
The Axis, Poetry by Tom Wayman
Holocaust at U.S. Steel, Poetry by Anne Fessenden
Film and Writing: The Political Dimension, Non-Fiction by Frank D. McConnell
Jefferson County Jail, Poetry by John Filiatreau
Harold Johnson’s Comeback, Poetry by Jay Meek
Marshall McLuhan and the Politics of Modernism, Non-Fiction by Richard Wasson
‘Just a Prisoner of Your Love’ Ode; Spring Song, Poetry by J. D. Reed
Tapsticks, Poetry by Frank Stanford
FICTION:
Going Home, Fiction by James S. Kenary
Shame, Fiction by Tamas Aczel
Bakti’s Hand, Fiction by Blair Fuller
Cambridge is Sinking, Fiction by John J. Clayton
Lining Up; Return; The Expedition to the Edge of the World, Poetry by Albert Goldbarth
The Hostile Sun: the Poetry of D. H. Lawrence, Non-Fiction by Joyce Carol Oates
Disaster Chants, Poetry by Thomas Johnson
Towards the Canonization of William Carlos Williams, Non-Fiction by Paul Mariani
The Ox Poems, Poetry by Robert Bohm
Sorrow, Sorrow; Signs, Poetry by Shirley Kaufman
Observer: The Cartridge Belt, Non-Fiction by David Madden
Religious Poem 2: For Robert Bly, Poetry by Faye Kicknosway
Documentation: In Nomination for the Presidency the Name of Shirley Chisholm, Non-Fiction by Percy Sutton
Driving Alone in Winter, Poetry by William Virgil Davis
IN REVIEW:
Physics, Politics and the Limits of Language, Non-Fiction by Richard Pearce
The Quest for a Black Aesthetic, Non-Fiction by Bernard Bell
The Luck of William Blake, Non-Fiction by Daniel Hughes
On Ghandi and Nonviolence, Non-Fiction by Richard W. Noland
Contributors
Tamas Aczel, born in Hungary, now lives in Amherst; his last novel was The Ice Age.
Bernard Bell‘s Folk Roots of Contemporary Afro-American Poetry will be published soon.
Robert Bohm, who received his MFA from the University of Massachusetts, is teaching this year in India.
John J. Clayton‘s stories have appeared in MR and The Antioch Review; his study of Saul Bellow is now in paperback.
William Virgil Davis‘s poems and articles have appeared in Malahat Review, Poetry and other journals.
At Amherst College this year, Anne Fessenden is the author of Around Some Corner, a volume of poems.
John Filiatreau writes for the Louisville Courier Journal; besides poems in several magazines, he has written on Southern labor for Dissent.
Blair Fuller, of Paris Review, has published numerous stories and novels.
Vita Giorgi, born in Sicily, has worked in Mexico, and now she lives in New York City.
Albert Goldbarth is completing an MFA at the University of Iowa, and has had work published in many magazines.
A Professor at Wayne State, Daniel Hughes has published a book of poetry, Waking in a Tree, as well as articles and reviews.
A student at the University of Wisconsin, Thomas Johnson has recently completed a novel.
Mardie Junkins teaches intaglio at the University of Massachusetts.
Shirley Kaufman‘s book, The Floor Keeps Turning, was the 1969 U.S. winner of the International Poetry Forum.
James Kenary, a veteran of the Vietnam war, spent three years in the Marine Corps; this is his first published story.
Faye Kicknosway is completing a novel; her second book of poems will appear in the coming year.
Frank McConnell‘s previous essay in MR, “William Burroughs and the Literature of Addiction,” was reprinted in the American Library Anthology.
David Madden‘s recent novel, Brothers in Confidence, is an Avon paperback original.
Paul Mariani has written a book on Gerard Manley Hopkins and is working on a study of Williams’ poetics, as well as a biography of that poet.
Jay Meek is visiting lecturer in the writing program at Syracuse University.
Conor Cruise O’Brien, Labor Deputy in the Irish Parliament, writes frequently on international affairs.
Richard Noland, Director of English Graduate Studies at the University of Massachusetts and an editor of Literature and Psychology, is at work on a study of Matthew Arnold.
“The Hostile Sun” is part of a collection of essays Joyce Carol Oates is preparing for next year.
Richard Pearce, author of Stages of the Clown, teaches at Wheaton College; he is working on a study of science and literature.
J. D. Reed‘s latest volume, Fatback Odes, will be published by Sumac Press; he teaches at the University of Massachusetts.
Frank Stanford is a student at the University of Arkansas.
Percy Sutton is Borough President of Manhattan.
Now teaching at Livingston College, Rutgers, Richard Wasson has published essays and reviews in many journals including PMLA and Partisan Review.
Co-winner of Poetry Northwest‘s Helen Bullis Prize in 1972, Tom Wayman has edited anthologies and will have a collection of his own poetry published in 1973.