Volume 19, Issue 2
FRONT COVER: Jean-Marie Leroux
Portrait of Franz Peter Schubert
Paris
Table of Contents
Schubert’s Last Year, 1828, Non-Fiction by Henry G. Mishkin
This Error is the Sign of Love, Poetry by Lewis Hyde
Geometry, Poetry by Jaime Galarza, Translated by Roberto Márquez
The Ivory Tower of Babel, Non-Fiction by Milton Mayer
Stoke Sobel in Polk, Fiction by Diane Vreuls
Just Living, Poetry by Kurt Heinzelman
For There Was Wind, Max; Max Plays With Textures of Words and Things, Poetry by Frederic Will
Crosstown, Poetry by Julia Thacker
Regional Planning: The Need and How to Meet It, Non-Fiction by Donald Allen Robinson
Five Stanzas for My Two Brothers, Poetry by Siv Cedering Fox
Calm Seas and a Prosperous Voyage, Fiction by W. D. Wetherell
Lesson of the Forgetful House; Confession, Poetry by Paul Hoover
Dialogue of Poets: Mens Animi and the Renewal of Words, Non-Fiction by Helen Bacon
My Mother Rehearses Her Funeral, Poetry by Philip Pierson
Eyes, Fiction by Tamas Aczel
My Mother’s Knife, Poetry by Lyn Lifshin
At Such Times of Divesture, Poetry by Kinereth Gensler
The Well-Tempered Falsehood: The Art of Storytelling, Non-Fiction by Nancy Willard
Inventing Childhood for Myself; Going to Sleep, Poetry by Debora Greger
Witness: The Paper City, Non-Fiction by Mary Doyle Curran
Anecdote as Destiny: Isak Dinesen and the Storyteller, Non-Fiction by Marcia Landy
How its Engine Fevers!, Poetry by Simon Perchik
An Interview with Umberto Eco, by Elizabeth Bruss and Marguerite Waller
Contributors
Tamas Aczel, poet and novelist, teaches at the University of Massachusetts.
Helen Bacon, whose translation of Aeschylus’ Seven Against Thebes was nominated for a National Book Award, has published many essays on classical literature, and teaches at Columbia.
Autobiographical Acts, by Elizabeth Bruss, was published by Johns Hopkins Press; she teaches at Amherst College.
Mary Doyle Curran, writer and teacher, is Director of Irish Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
Siv Cedering Fox‘s most recent collection of poems is The Juggler, Sagarin Press.
The poet Jaime Galarza has been a political prisoner in Ecuador.
A teacher in the Massachusetts Poets-in-the-Schools program, Kinereth Gensler received the Borestone Mountain Poetry Award in 1974.
Debora Greger‘s poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Antioch Review, and other literary journals.
Kurt Heinzelman is an editor of The Poetry Miscellany.
Paul Hoover, Poet-in-Residence at Columbia College, Chicago, is President of The Poetry Center, Museum of Contemporary Art.
Lewis Hyde‘s translation of poems by Vicente Aleixandre was recently published by Seventies Press.
A Milton specialist, Marcia Landy teaches at the University of Pittsburgh.
The poems of Lyn Lifshin have appeared in a number of anthologies and magazines.
Editor and translator, Roberto Márquez founded Caliban, and teaches at Hampshire College.
Milton Mayer taught for ten years in the English Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has since been a visiting professor of American Studies, University of Paris, and held the Bingham Chair at the University of Louisville. This fall he will teach at the Max Planck Institute in Munich.
Emeritus professor of music, Amherst College, Henry G. Mishkin has published various articles and choral editions.
Printer and photographer as well as poet, Philip Pierson has just completed a collection of poems, The Do-Wang Dialogues.
Simon Perchik, assistant district attorney in Suffolk County, has published five books of poems.
Donald Allen Robinson has served on the Task Force on Regional Development, and teaches at Smith College.
Twice recipient of the Academy of American Poets Prize, Julia Thacker has published in several magazines.
Diane Vreuls has published a novel, Are We There Yet?, and several short stories.
Marguerite Waller teaches at Amherst College.
W. D. Wetherell has spent the year traveling in Europe.
Nancy Willard has published volumes of fiction and poetry; her most recent collection of poems is Carpenter of the Sun.
Frederic Will is at present working on a “long poem about the power of the fox in history.”