Volume 17, Issue 3
FRONT COVER: Jerome Liebling
ROBERT FRANCIS
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Table of Contents
Culture and Controversy: A Diagnosis, Non-Fiction by Robert Crossley
The Infant Football Game, Fiction by Fred Miller Robinson
A Garland of Verse by Robert Francis for His Seventy-fifth Birthday
Civil Liberty in America: A Freedom Odyssey, Non-Fiction by William Preston
Trying to See Through Joe Heffernan’s Glasses, Poetry by Gibbons Ruark
The Latin Class: A Letter of Pliny’s, Poetry by Nancy G. Westerfield
Michael S. Harper, Poet as Kinsman: The Family Sequences, Poetry by Robert B. Stepto
Lambchops Goes into Training; Summit, Poetry by Paul St. Vincent
Fortune Cookies, Poetry by Linda Pastan
Politics & Popular Culture in Brazil, Non-Fiction by J. R. Molotnik
Taormina Journal, Non-Fiction by B. Elevitch
Cold Mountain, Imitation; Pechal Moya Svetla, Poetry by Mary Haynes
Of Heroines and Victimes: Jean Rhys and Jane Eyre, Non-Fiction by Dennis Porter
Fragments of a Killdeer, Fiction by Gladden Schrock
Contributors
Robert Crossley is an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts (Boston), where he teaches courses in 18th century and epic literature.
Bernard Elevitch is a specialist in modern French philosophy, and has a work-in-progress on Freud; his articles have appeared in Modern Occasions and other journals.
Mary Haynes is a graduate of Kent State University and has studied music at Oberlin College Conservatory; she now teaches in a small all-grade school on the coast of Labrador. Her poems have been published in The New Yorker and Chelsea.
J. R. Molotnik is a student of Brazilian culture.
Linda Pastan‘s most recent volume of poetry is Aspects of Eve (Liveright/Morton); she has had an NEA Fellowship.
A graduate of Cambridge University and the University of California (Berkeley), Dennis Porter writes frequently on the French and English novel.
William Preston has been a frequent defender as well as historian of civil liberties in America. He is presently chairman of the department of History at John Jay College, City University of New York.
Fred Miller Robinson teaches at the University of Massachusetts (Amherst), where he specializes in modern and contemporary fiction.
Gibbons Ruark, whose book of poems A Program for Survival appeared in 1971, contributes poetry to various magazines including The New Yorker and American Poetry Review; he teaches at the University of Delaware.
Listing his occupation as a sheet-metal worker and round-the-clock negotiator, Paul St. Vincent has published poems in many journals and had his plays performed in various non-establishment theatres; he was born in the West Indies and now lives in London.
Novelist, playwright and teacher, Gladden Schrock owns and operates a mackerel fishing boat in Maine, where he lives with his wife and children.
Robert B. Stepto teaches American and Afro-American literature at Yale; he is working on a book of Afro-American narratives, From Behind the Veil.
Nancy G. Westerfield was an NEA Fellow in 1974-75 and has received a number of awards for her poetry; she is a librarian and a member of the Executive Council of the Episcopal Diocese of Nebraska.