Volume 14, Issue 3
FRONT COVER: Pieter Breughel, The Elder
THE TOWER OF BABEL (detail)
PAINTING
Table of Contents
Superville: New York—Aspects of Very High Bulk, Monograph by Stephen Zoll
A Century’s History of the Tall Building, Photographs and drawing, sixteen pages
Lecturing my Daughters, Poetry by Gibbons Ruark
In the Flowering Nightshade; My Father’s Oldest Sister; Grandmother, Poetry by Siv Cedering Fox
My Life and Death in the Negro American Baseball League: A Slave Narrative, Fiction by Jay Neugeboren
Last Mornings in California, Poetry by James Merrill
The Continuities of W. S. Merwin: “What Has Escaped Us, We Bring With Us,” Non-Fiction by Jarold Ramsey
Tittie Whistle, Fiction by R. Michael Benson
Africa and Her Writers, Non-Fiction by Chinua Achebe
Cutting Greens, Poetry by Lucille Clifton
Heritage: Edmund Wilson’s Russian Legacy, Non-Fiction by Lewis M. Dabney
Review: The New Marxist Criticism, Non-Fiction by David Peck
Contributors
Chinua Achebe, African novelist and lecturer, is editor of Okike, a journal of modern African literature; he currently teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
R. Michael Benson is now teaching at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
Lucille Clifton of Baltimore, Maryland is author of a book of poems, Good Times, and has been a frequent contributor to MR, and other magazines.
Lewis M. Dabney is publishing a study of Faulkner’s fiction about Indians, The Indians of Yoknapatowpha (Louisiana State University Press).
Siv Cedering Fox, who has won various prizes for poetry and photography, has published this fall Cup of Cold Water (New River Press), Letters from the Island (Fiddlehead Books), and Det Blommande Tredet (Forum, Sweden).
James Merrill, author of several books of poetry, lives in Stonington, Connecticut.
A teacher of fiction writing at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Jay Neugeboren will publish Sam’s Legacy with Holt, Rinehart and Winston in the spring of 1974.
David Peck is compiling an anthology of American Marxist criticism from the 1930’s under a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Since 1965 Jarold Ramsey has taught Shakespeare and also modern poetry at the University of Rochester. He has a book of poems, Love in an Earthquake (Seattle 1973). His essay on Merwin is part of a book in progress on major contemporary poets.
Gibbons Ruark, a teacher at the University of Delaware, has published A Program for Survival and new poems have appeared in Poetry Northwest, Midwest Quarterly, and Counter/Pleasures.
Stephen Zoll is an American currently in Cambridge, England working to put budgetary numbers to the theoretical basis of his monograph in this issue of MR. His research is conducted at the Centre for Land Use and Built Form Studies where he gratefully acknowledges the support of his colleague, the distinguished British architect, Sir Leslie Martin. Mr. Zoll is also managing editor, at the School of Architecture, for a series of books entitled Cambridge Urban and Architectural Studies published at Cambridge University Press. He writes that he holds his essay in MR to be just that, “an attempt, an exercise in theoretical description. But so is the theory of incentive zoning only an essay; it looks at the slowly increasing revenue derived from bulk without looking at the rapidly increasing costs incurred by density. Unfortunately, incentive zoning quickly became a dogma to be applied rather than a pragmatic hypothesis to be tested.” Before undertaking his work on zoning in American central business districts, Mr. Zoll was for four years a member of the New York City Housing and Development Administration during both Lindsay administrations.