Volume 16, Issue 1
FRONT COVER: Henri Rousseau
WOMAN IN AN EXOTIC FOREST
The Barnes Foundation
Merion, PA
Table of Contents
Natives, Women & Claude Lévi-Strauss, Non-Fiction by Cleo McNelly
Ein Geliebtes: The Body of the Work, Poetry by Rika Lesser
The Interpreter, Fiction by Eric Wilson
Oxbow, Poetry by Paul Jenkins
Dry Winter, Poetry by Millicent Bell
Whitman in Vietnam: Poetry and History in Contemporary America, Non-Fiction by Cary Nelson
The Unfulfilled, Poetry by Betty Lowry
Mexican Elections, Poetry by Ameen Alwan
By the River, Poetry by T. Hunter Wilson
Washrags, Poetry by Vern Rutsala
Language in Black and Irish Nationalist Literature, Non-Fiction by C. L. Innes
Rapture of the Deep, Poetry by Diane Ackerman
European Thought in the Twentieth Century, Non-Fiction by Eugene Lunn
Golden Prince/Black Nothing, Fiction by Sondra Shulman
Labuntur Anni, Poetry by Charles Gullans
Chronicles and Chroniclers: Some Contemporary Fictions, Non-Fiction by Blanche Gelfant
The First Movement, Poetry by Debora Greger
Harvest, Poetry by Ellen Bryant Voigt
Nine Advantages of a Dead Cat, Poetry by Jerry Underwood
Film: The Complete Bergman, Non-Fiction by Julian C. Rice; Exquisite Comedy and the Dimensions of Heroism: Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo, Non-Fiction by Alan P. Barr
Visit to a Child with Leukemia; Fall, Poetry by Barbara M. Courtney
Performing Arts: 1973-1974; Jospeh Papp and Others, Non-Fiction by Seymour Rudin
The Story of My Life, Poetry by James Baker Hall
Job; Die Liebe Farbe, Poetry by Carol Baker Hansen
Virginia Woolf: The First Version of The Years, Non-Fiction by Grace Radin
Contributors
Diane Ackerman‘s “Rapture of the Deep” is part of a sequence of poems about the planets.
Ameen Alwan‘s work has appeared in The Paris Review, TriQuarterly, and Chelsea.
Alan P. Barr combines his work on films with an interest in Victorian literature and modern drama.
Author of Edith Wharton and Henry James and Hawthorne’s View of the Artist, Millicent Bell of Boston University is a frequent contributor to MR.
Barbara Courtney is a psychiatric social worker at the University of Washington.
Blanche Gelfant is the author of The American City Novel and many articles on modern and contemporary fiction.
Debora Greger‘s poems have appeared in Poetry Northwest, Antaeus, and The New Yorker.
Charles Gullans‘ most recent publications are Arrivals and Departures and Last Letters from Stalingrad.
James Baker Hall‘s poems are from a book-length sequence called Coming Home.
Maine resident Carol Baker Hansen is currently an editorial assistant at Bowdoin College.
C. L. Innes, assistant editor of Okike: A Journal of African Writing, is at work on a book on Chinua Achebe.
Paul Jenkins writes poetry and teaches literature at the University of Massachusetts (Amherst).
Translator of Rilke, Rika Lesser is spending the year in Sweden.
As a free-lance writer, Betty Lowry has published widely in magazines and newspapers.
Historian Eugene Lunn is the author of Prophet of Community: The Romantic Socialism of Gustav Landauer.
A medievalist, interested in poetics and critical theory, Cleo McNelly co-edited New Marxist Criticism, for College English.
Cary Nelson, who teaches at the University of Illinois, is the author of The Incarnate Word: Literature as Verbal Space.
Grace Radin is working on a book-length study of all available versions of Virginia Woolf’s The Years.
Julian Rice has written articles on drama, American literature, and contemporary film.
Seymour Rudin‘s essays on dance and drama regularly grace MR pages.
Vern Rutsala received the Northwest Poets’ Prize from Northwest Review in 1975.
Sondra Shulman has written one comic novel, The Death of Ohio, and is working on a second.
Jerry Underwood lives in Laramie, Wyoming, with his family and one cat.
Ellen Bryant Voigt teaches in the Adult Degree Program at Goddard College.
“The Interpreter” is the first published fiction by Eric Wilson.
T. Hunter Wilson spent two years teaching carpentry and English in Savannakhet, Laos, where “By the River” was written.