Volume 16, Issue 4
FRONT COVER: Unidentified Artist
POCAHONTAS
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
Table of Contents
Where is the USA Going?, Non-Fiction by Norman Birnbaum
Permanence; A Quietness, Poetry by Vincente Aleixandre, Translated by Jeoffrey Bartman
What Grief; Recollection; My Friend; Tomorrow, Poetry by Natalya Gorbanevskaya, Translated by H.W. Tjalsma
To Make You Well, Poetry by Debora Greger
The Moving Finger, Fiction by Hilary Masters
Kaballah in the Connecticut River Valley–a Fragment, Fiction by Mark Jay Mirsky
Papyrus #1212, Poetry by Jon Kelly Yenser
The Independent Woman and “Free” Love, Non-Fiction by Emily Toth
RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT: BICENTENNIAL GATHERING II
The Metaphysics of Empire-Building: American Imperialism in the Age of Jefferson and Monroe, Non-Fiction by Richard Drinnon
What’s in a Name?: The Presence of the Victim in The Pioneers, Non-Fiction by Lester Cohen
The Pocahontas Perplex: The Image of Indian Women in American Culture, Non-Fiction by Rayna Green
The Century After a Century of Dishonor: American Conscience and Consciousness, Non-Fiction by Frederick W. Turner, III
Uncle Tom and the Avant-Garde, Non-Fiction by Frank D. McConnell
The 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Black Infantry as a Subject for American Artists, Non-Fiction by Chadwick Hansen
From the Civil War Diary & Letters of Corporal E. W. Stone, 21st Massachusetts, Edited with an Introduction by Paul Mariani
Troubadours and Minnesänger: Six Medieval Lyrics with Illustrations, versions by Ernest Gallo
The Years of Shame, Non-Fiction by W. M. Frohock
The Ventnor Waterworks, Poetry by Barry Spacks
Alain Resnais’ Stavisky: The Beginning of the End, Non-Fiction by Frederick Busi
Bernando Bertolucci, Or Nostalgia for the Present, Non-Fiction by Robert Zaller
Contributors
Joeffrey Bartman‘s translations of twenty poems by Vincente Aleixandre will be published as a book by Solo Press.
Norman Birnbaum is professor of Sociology, Amherst College, and Member, 1975-76, of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
Frederick Busi is the author of L’Esthetique d’André Suarès and articles on Sartre, Cervantes, Beckett.
W. M. Frohock teaches at Harvard and is a distinguished critic of French and American literature.
Ernest Gallo‘s translations have been published in Paintbrush, Parache, and Sand.
Poems by Debora Greger have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry Northwest, Antaeus, and Seneca Review.
Hilary Masters has been an editor, publisher, press agent, photographer, poet, and novelist. He is Visiting Writer in Residence at Drake University.
Editor of Fiction, Mark Jay Mirsky‘s novella, The Secret Table, will be published by George Braziller and The Fiction Collective.
Barry Spacks has published poetry and fiction.
Natalya Gorbanevskaya, the author of H. W. Tjalsma‘s translations, lives and works in Moscow. Tjalsma lives and works in Leverett, Mass.
Editor of the Kate Chofin Newsletter, Emily Toth is writing a book on American women writers.
Poems by Jon Kelly Yenser have appeared in Shenandoah, The Ohio Review, and Poetry Northwest.
Robert Zaller is a member of the History Department at the University of Miami.
BICENTENNIAL GATHERING II
Lester H. Cohen teaches Intellectual History and American Studies at Purdue.
Richard Drinnon‘s Rebel in Paradise: A Biography of Emma Goldman will be published by Harper and Row.
Folklorist and Texan, Rayna Green has worked most recently for the Smithsonian Institution and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Chadwick Hansen, director of the American Civilization program at the University of Iowa, is preparing an anthology on Afro-American music and a book on the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts.
Frank D. McConnell‘s The Confessional Imagination: A Reading of Wordsworth’s Prelude was recently published by The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Paul Mariani recently published William Carlos Williams: The Poet and His Critics and is currently writing a commentary on Paterson.
Frederick W. Turner, III has edited several books of Native American literature and is currently at work on a history of wilderness exploration.