Volume 15, Issue 4
FRONT COVER: Jerome Liebling
JOSEPH BRODSKY, 1974
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Table of Contents
Joseph Brodsky: A Poet’s Classroom, Non-Fiction by Rosette C. Lamont
Lagoon, Poetry by Joseph Brodsky, Translated by Daniel Weissbort
Norman Mailer: The Artist as Fantasy Figure, Non-Fiction by Robert F. Lucid
Violence; Black Ore, Poetry by René Depestre, Translated by Susanna Lang and James Scully
The American Sickness, Fiction by Jose Yglesias
Allende in Socialist America, Poetry by George H. Szanto
Brazilian Rain Forest, Poetry by Gyula Illyés, Translated by William Jay Smith
Polonaise, Fiction by Abraham Rothberg
My Sister Was a Seamstress, Poetry by B. M. Bennani
A Week Like Any Other Week, Fiction by Natalya Baranskaya, Translated by Emily Lehrman
Phoenix; The Solace of Stevens, Poetry by Robert Gibb
Homescape, Poetry by Benjamin Saltman
A Child’s Election, Non-Fiction by Thomas J. Cottle
November Funerals, Lawrence, Mass., Poetry by George Bower
Beck-Junior and the Good Shepherd, Fiction by Ellease Southerland
Nineteen Thirty-Two; Honeymoon: St. Thomas, Poetry by Lawrence P. Spingarn
Samuel Beckett: Dramatic Possibilities, Non-Fiction by George H. Szanto
Easy on the Gas; The Lives of Insects; Freeze, Unfreeze, Poetry by Paul Jenkins
Invocation, Poetry by William Walden
Contributors
Natalya Baranskaya is a distinguished contemporary Russian poet and short story writer who presently lives in Moscow.
B. M. Bennani teaches English at the University of Wyoming and edits Paintbrush, a journal of poetry, translations, and letters.
George Bower is a former reporter turned fiction writer, poet, and teacher of creative writing at Newton North High School in Massachusetts.
Joseph Brodsky is regarded by many as the finest living Russian poet. Since leaving his homeland in 1972 he has been teaching in America, at Michigan, Queens, and presently at Amherst College and the University of Massachusetts.
Thomas J. Cottle is with the Children’s Defense Fund of Cambridge, Mass. He formerly taught at Harvard, MIT and the University of Illinois, and is the author of several books on children.
René Depestre (Haiti) is author of A Rainbow for the Christian West, and other books of verse and criticism.
Robert Gibb resides in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Gyula Illyés, several times nominee for the Nobel Prize, is considered the leading poet of Hungary.
Paul Jenkins teaches at the University of Massachusetts (Amherst).
Rosette C. Lamont has recently visited Russia on a Guggenheim leave; she is an expert on modern literature and cultural criticism.
Susanna Lang lives in Williamstown, Mass.
Born in Russia, translator Emily Lehrman attended elementary school in Leningrad before high school and university education in America, and is presently a reference librarian at SUNY at Farmingdale.
Robert F. Lucid is author of Norman Mailer, The Man & His Work (1972). He is currently doing a book on the American writer as fantasy figure.
Journalist, novelist, essayist, Abraham Rothberg is, most recently, author of Solzhenitsyn: The Major Novels.
James Scully is a recent Guggenheim Fellow and spent a year in Santiago de Chile, S.A.
Benjamin Saltman is on the staff of Twentieth-Century Literature and is author of Blue with Blue.
On leave from Hollins College, William Jay Smith is Acting Chairman of the Writing Division of the School of the Arts at Columbia University where he is also engaged in editing a selected edition of the works of Gyula Illyés.
Ellease Southerland lives in Jamaica, New York and her poems have appeared in Black World, Poet Lore and other magazines.
Editor, translator, poet, artist, Lawrence P. Spingarn was founder in 1968 of Perivale Press, devoted to foreign poetry in translation.
George H. Szanto is author of Narrative Consciousness (Univ. of Texas Press, 1972), a study of the fiction of Kafka, Beckett, and Robbe-Grillet.
Playwright and poet, William Walden has published poems in The New Yorker, Atlantic, Punch and other magazines.
Daniel Weissbort is Editor of Modern Poetry in Translation and is this year teaching at the University of Iowa.
Next spring Viking will publish the seventh book by Jose Yglesias, a novel entitled Double Double.