Volume 14, Issue 2
FRONT COVER: Nelson Stevens
W. E. B. DUBOIS
Table of Contents
Hearth and Horizon: Changing Concepts of the “Domestic” Life of the Heroine, Non-Fiction by Jean Sudrann
A History of the Afghan, Poetry by Donna Brook
The Pre-Revolutionary Writings of Imamu Amiri Baraka, Non-Fiction by William C. Fischer
Custer’s Last Stand, Poetry by Paul Jenkins
The Lesson, Poetry by Doris Radin
FICTION:
Phantoms, My Faithful Ones, Fiction by Charlotte Delbo, Translated by Rosette Lamont
Benson Watts is Dead and in Virginia, Fiction by Doris Betts
What Rough Beast?, Fiction by Daniel Curley
from Out, Fiction by Ronald Sukenick
Documentation: Dubois’ Crisis and Women’s Suffrage, Non-Fiction by Jean Fagan Yellin
In Early Spring, Poetry by George Keithley
The Creative Vision of Native Son, Non-Fiction by Richard E. Baldwin
Henry James: The Man Who Lived, Non-Fiction by Millicent Bell
No Ideas But in Things; Anodyne Love Poem; First Love, Poetry by Paul Hannigan
Heritage: John Reed’s Urban Comedy of Revolution, Non-Fiction by Henry Henderson, III
Contributors
Richard E. Baldwin teaches English at the University of Washington.
Millicent Bell, the author of Edith Wharton and Henry James, is Professor of English at Boston University.
Doris Betts is the author of three novels; her sixth book of fiction, Beasts of the Southern Wild will be published by Harper & Row late this year.
Donna Brook lives in Detroit; her verse has appeared in Poetry Northwest, Kayak, Hanging Loose and elsewhere.
Daniel Curley has previously published verse in MR; his latest collection is called In the Hands of Our Enemies.
Charlotte Delbo won the MR Quill Award in Fiction for her last story in MR; the present contribution is the second part of that story. She is a survivor of Auschwitz, living in Paris.
William C. Fischer, a former jazz trombonist, is an Assistant Professor of English at SUNY, Buffalo.
Paul Hannigan lives in Arlington, Massachusetts.
Harry Henderson, in, a Yale Ph.D. in American Studies (1968), was killed in an automobile accident in 1972; while a teacher at Yale he was active in the anti-war movement, particularly as a member of the American Independent Movement, a Socialist organization in New Haven.
Paul Jenkins grew up in Iowa, was educated in Iowa and Washington; he has been teaching at the University of Massachusetts since 1969.
George Keithley is the author of the variously honored epic poem The Donner Party (George Braziller, 1972), extended excerpts of which appeared in MR and Harper’s.
Rosette Lamont, a frequent contributor to MR, will be on leave from cuny next year as a Guggenheim Fellow.
Doris Radin has published verse in The Nation, Prairie Schooner, Epoch and other magazines.
Jean Sudrann, Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College, is the author of essays on various Victorian writers in ELH, Antioch Review, Studies in the Novel and elsewhere; her contribution in this issue is a revised and enlarged version of a paper read for the 100th Anniversary of the Mount Holyoke Alumnae Association.
Nelson Stevens teaches in the W. E. B. DuBois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts.
Ronald Sukenick has taught off and on at City College, Sarah Lawrence, Cornell, now lives and writes in California; his first novel was Up, and his second, Out, will be out in June (Swallow Press).
Jean Fagan Yellin began writing for her family’s labor newspaper while in grammar school in Michigan; she teaches at Pace College in New York and is the author of The Intricate Knot: Black Figures in American Literature (1776?1863) (NYU Press, 1972).