Volume 19, Issue 1
FRONT COVER: Gregory Gillespie
SELF-PORTRAIT
Table of Contents
A Lingering Death, Fiction by Silvia Tennenbaum
Her Name Might Be Magdelena, Poetry by Ellen Wittlinger
Early Winter, Fiction by Max Schott
Edward Dahlberg: 1900-1977, a reminiscence by Frank MacShane
The Choir from the Soul: A Conversation with Anne Sexton, by Gregory Fitz Gerald
Nothing You Can Have, Poetry by Marge Piercy
Fall, Poetry by Bill Tremblay
Mythopoeia, The Moon, and Contemporary Women’s Poetry, Non-Fiction by Dianne F. Sadoff
Crow: or the Trickster Transformed, Non-Fiction by Jarold Ramsey
Delicious Poison, Poetry by Robert Sabatier, Translated by Elizabeth Hanson
Self-Portraits: Gregory Gillespie, Art by Gregory Gillespie; eight illustrations with a commentary by the artist and afterword by Oriole Farb
Solzhenitsyn’s Image of America: The Survival of a Slavophile Idea, Non-Fiction by Dale E. Peterson
I Will Go to Israel, Poetry by Naomi Lazard
Ödön von Horváth: A Man of this Season, Non-Fiction by Krishna Winston
The Dead, Poetry by Lawrence Kearney
The Artificial Niggers, Non-Fiction by Claire Kahane
Secrecy; I don’t Even Ask to Write Them Down, Poetry by Diane Wald
About Ammons’ Sphere, Non-Fiction by John E. Sitter
Contributors
Oriole Farb is a visiting professor of Fine Arts at Amherst College and a painter.
Gregory Fitz Gerald has published poetry, fiction, essays, parodies, and interviews. He is currently working on a novel.
Gregory Gillespie‘s most recent exhibition was a retrospective at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. The signature in this issue is part of a series on artists of western Massachusetts made possible with support from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities.
Elizabeth Hanson has translated selected poems of Robert Sabatier, a French poet.
Claire Kahane teaches at S.U.N.Y., Buffalo, where she is a member of the Center for Psychological Study of the Arts.
Born in Oxford, England, Lawrence Kearney currently lives in Michigan. His poems have appeared in the Atlantic, Poetry Northwest, and Southern Poetry Review.
Naomi Lazard teaches a poetry workshop at the 92nd Street YM-YWHA (N.Y.C.) and publishes in The New Yorker, Paris Review, Hudson Review, and Ms.
Frank MacShane, author of The Life of Raymond Chandler, is spending 1978-79 in Rome on a Fulbright fellowship. He is Director of the Writing Program at Columbia University.
Dale E. Peterson, Chairman of the Russian Department at Amherst College, has written numerous articles on Russian and American literatures.
Two of Marge Piercy‘s recent books are Living in the Open and Women on the Edge of Time.
Poet and essayist Jarold Ramsey writes that his essay on Ted Hughes, “like an earlier MR piece on Merwin, is part of a book-in-(slow)-progress on poetic ordering in some major contemporary poetS.”
Dianne F. Sadoff teaches literature at Antioch College, where her major interests are in Victorian literature and Women’s Studies.
Max Schott declares: “Up to the age of 30, I was a horse trainer. Now I teach in the literature program of the College of Creative Studies at the University of California in Santa Barbara.”
John E. Sitter has written a book on Alexander Pope and several articles on 17th and 18th-century literature.
Silvia Tennenbaum‘s novel, Rachel, the Rabbi’s Wife, has recently appeared.
Bill Tremblay, author of The Anarchist Heart and other poems, is co-editor of the Colorado State Review.
Kayak, Pequod, Rapport, and the Iowa Review have published Diane Wald‘s poems.
Krishna Winston is translating a pictorial biography of C. G. Jung for Princeton University Press.
Ellen Wittlinger‘s Breakers will be published by the Sheep Meadow Press in October, 1978.