Volume 18, Issue 2
FRONT COVER: Randall Deihl
TREE, 1976
PENCIL DRAWING
19 X 26 INCHES
Table of Contents
Emily Dickinson’s Letters to Sue Gilbert, Non-Fiction by Lillian Faderman
Moving, Poetry by Susan Snively
LIVES & LETTERS
O Pioneers, with eight letters (1875-1881) of Nellie Wells Kennard, Barbara Courtney
The White Papers: Letters (1861-1865) of Pvt. Herman Lorenzo White, 22nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, Edited by Kathleen Kroll and Charles Moran
The Old Animal Floating in Bandages, Poetry by Patricia Eakins
A Grappling of Light, Fiction by Robin Goodfellow
The Face of Creation; A Summer on the Lake, Poetry by Ottó Orbán, Translated by Jascha Kessler
Six Illustrations, Art by Randall Deihl and a note by the artist
Under the Eyelid, Poetry by Kristina McGrath
Psychohistory, Theory and Practice, Non-Fiction by Richard W. Noland
Sarah’s Song, Poetry by Jane Flanders
The Struggle to Save the Cities, Non-Fiction by Henry A. Giroux
In the Shell of the Ear and Other Poems, Poetry by Joseph Langland, with a portrait by Barry Moser
Zone of Remission: Current American Fiction, Non-Fiction by Shaun O’Connell
Witness: Against Capitulation, Non-Fiction by Jiri Wyatt
Contributors
Barbara Courtney is a psychiatric social worker at the University of Washington at Seattle. Her essay here is the first in a book of essays about the thirty-two surviving letters of her great-grandmother, Nellie Wells Kennard.
Randall Deihl is a resident of South Deerfield, Mass. His drawings reproduced in this issue are a part of a series on New England artists made possible by support from the Massachusetts Council on the Arts & Humanities.
Patricia Eakins, poet and short story writer, is an MFA candidate at Goddard College, Vermont.
Lillian Faderman was formerly department chairperson in English, then Dean of Humanities at the California State University at Fresno where she still teaches; she is editor of Speaking for Ourselves: American Ethnic Writing (1975) and of From the Barrio (1973).
Jane Flanders was born and raised in Waynesboro, PA; she is a graduate of Bryn Mawr and Columbia, her poems appear frequently in the literary journals, and she now lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband and three children.
Henry A. Giroux has a doctorate in history from Carnegie-Mellon University; he is presently a member of the Center for Research in Writing at Brown University.
Robin Goodfellow is a painter, poet, and short story writer, married, and working from her home in Gracemont, Oklahoma.
Jascha Kessler, poet and professor at UCLA, has a special interest in translating the work of contemporary Hungarian poets and short story writers.
Kathleen Kroll, Herman White’s great-grand-daughter, is a teacher at Springfield Technical High School, in Springfield, Massachusetts.
The poems of Joseph Langland have long been associated with the farms and the landscape of his native Iowa and Minnesota territory, as well as with the terrain of his adopted New England. He was for many seasons a strong editorial voice on the Board of MR. It is with special pride that we publish a segment of his newest work.
kristina McGrath has published in Paris Review, Prairie Schooner and other journals; her dance-theatre piece entitled Voices for Two Women Who Speak and Dance was produced at the Performance Garage, New York City.
Charles Moran teaches at the Amherst campus of the University of Massachusetts.
Barry Moser is an artist and printer well known in the Pioneer Valley.
Richard Noland is Chairman of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is a specialist in psychology and literature, and his many articles have appeared in a wide variety of leading journals.
Shaun O’Connell has written on contemporary fiction for Nation, The Atlantic, American Scholar, and for the Boston Globe where he regularly reviews books; he teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
Ottó Orbán, Hungarian poet, was in America for three months last fall as a guest of the U.S. State Department.
Susan Snively has degrees from Smith College and Boston University; she is Lecturer in English at Smith, and has completed her first book of poems, Cutting Loose, as well as a book on Sylvia Plath entitled The Language of Necessity.
Jiri Wyatt was born in Czechoslovakia, raised in Ecuador and New York City.