Volume 17, Issue 1
FRONT COVER: Leonard Baskin
CRAZY HORSE, 1974
COLOR LITHOGRAPH
Table of Contents
Beyond Arcadians and Technophiles: New Convergences in Culture?, Non-Fiction by Ihab Hassan
Nabisco’s Hiring, Poetry by Thomas Orr
Recovery; Valediction, Poetry by Molly Peacock
How’s Your Vacuum Cleaner Working, Fiction by Emily Arnold McCully
Friday, Poetry by Susan Keith Noel
Too Many Birthdays; False Clues, Poetry by Ron Schreiber
RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT: BICENTENNIAL GATHERING III
Alternatives to the New Fascism, Non-Fiction by Kenneth M. Dolbeare
Paul Robeson, Art by Jacob Epstein
“I Want To Be African”: Paul Robeson and the Ends of Nationalist Theory and Practice, Non-Fiction by Sterling Stuckey
Six, Poetry by Jon-Stephen Fink
Indians, 12 Lithographs by Leonard Baskin
Indian Anangkan, Non-Fiction by William Brandon
American Fiction, 1975: Celebration in Wonderland, Non-Fiction by Shaun O’Connell
After Swimming; Beauty I Would Suffer For, Poetry by Marge Piercy
Statelier Mansions: Humanism, Forster and Lessing, Non-Fiction by Ellen Cronan Rose
Contributors
Ihab Hassan, Vilas Research Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, is the author of The Literature of Silence, Radical Innocence, and other books.
Emily Arnold McCully has illustrated over forty children’s books; this is her first short story, a different and briefer version of which appeared in Dark Horse.
Susan Keith Noel‘s first published poem appears in this issue of MR.
Shaun O’Connell‘s essays on contemporary fiction have appeared in The Atlantic, The Nation, and other journals.
Poems by Thomas Orr have most recently appeared in Arizona Quarterly and Cimarron Review.
Molly Peacock teaches creative writing at SUNY, Binghamton; she spent last summer at the MacDowell Colony.
A novel, Woman on the Edge of Time, and a book of poems, Living in the Open, both by Marge Piercy, will appear in the spring.
A member of the Dartmouth English Department, Ellen Cronan Rose has published several essays on contemporary British women novelists.
While teaching and writing in Boston, Ron Schreiber also helps edit Hanging Loose.
BICENTENNIAL GATHERING III
Leonard Baskin has long been associated with MR. A show of his work will open in New York in June.
William Brandon is the author of The American Heritage Book of Indians. His latest work is The Last Americans, McGraw Hill, 1975.
Author of a number of books on American public policy, including Political Change in the U.S. and American Ideologies, Kenneth M. Dolbeare teaches at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Jon Stephen Fink‘s poems have been published in Chelsea Review, Intro 7, and other magazines.
Sterling Stuckey is a professor of history at Northwestern; he writes frequently on Black history and was formerly at the Center for Afro-American Studies, UCLA.