Volume 19, Issue 3
FRONT COVER:
Death-mask bust of Samuel Johnson, 1784
National Portrait Gallery, London
Photograph by Witty
Table of Contents
Chaos or Control: Our No-Win Situation, Non-Fiction by Jascha Kessler
A Suite for Hawkbells, Poetry by James Baker Hall
Heavy Particles, Fiction by N.R. Simon
Getting Caught in a Rainstorm, Poetry by Philip Dacey
Has Been Recorded; More on the End of the Dock, Poetry by Stuart Friebert
Mark Reizen, Non-Fiction by Greg Audette
The Sleep of the Painted Ladies; Family Picnic with Wine and Water, Poetry by Nancy Willard
A Private Station, Fiction by Raymond A. Kennedy
Killing to Eat; Alligators and Paris and North America [from The Rainbow Grocery], Juniper Prize Poetry by William Dickey
Biography & Criticism:
Samuel Johnson in Modern Perspective, by Frederick S. Troy
Self-Suppression & Attachment: Mid-Victorian Emotional Life, by Judith M. Hughes
Bartleby and Schizophrenia, Non-Fiction by Morris Beja
June Rain ’72, Poetry by Robert Tucker
A Child Crying, Poetry by Ruth Fainlight
Film as Antipedagogy: Laughing at Laura, Cackling at Kane, by Frank D. McConnell
“A Fine, White Flying Myth”: Confessions of a Plath Addict, Non-Fiction by Sandra M. Gilbert
Witness: The Return, Fiction by Irving Weissman
Contributors
Greg Audette lives and works very part-time in Hanover, N.H.
Morris Beja, Professor of English at Ohio State University, is the author of Epiphany in the Modern Novel and has edited collections of essays on psychological fiction, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf.
Philip Dacey‘s volume of poetry, How I Escaped From the Labyrinth and Other Poems, was published by Mellon University Press in 1977.
English poet and translator Ruth Fainlight has published numerous books of poetry, as well as a collection of short stories; she has completed her latest book, Sibyls, to be published by Gehenna Press, with illustrations by Leonard Baskin, this year.
The poet Stuart Friebert directs the Writing Program at Oberlin College and co-edits Field.
William Dickey‘s fifth book of poems, a selection from which appears in this issue of MR, received the Juniper Prize for 1978; The Rainbow Grocery will be published by the University of Massachusetts Press this fall.
Sandra M. Gilbert, whose poetry, fiction and criticism has appeared in a number of journals, teaches at the University of California, Davis; a book on which she is collaborating, The Madwoman in the Attic, will soon be published by Yale University Press.
As well as appearing in various literary quarterlies, James Baker Hall has published a novel and a collection of poems.
Judith M. Hughes teaches history at the University of California, San Diego; her book To the Maginot Line was published by Harvard University Press.
A former editor for Encyclopedia Americana, Raymond Kennedy writes novels and short stories.
Jascha Kessler‘s most recent book is a translation of a collection of Hungarian short stories by Geza Csath, published by Columbia University PreSS.
Frank D. McConnell, who teaches at Northwestern, is preparing a new book on film and literature for Oxford University Press.
An astrophysicist by profession, N. R. Simon‘s first published story appears in this issue of MR.
Frederick S. Troy, a three-term Trustee of the University of Massachusetts, is Professor Emeritus of English at the University and an 18th century specialist.
Poet and teacher Robert Tucker has long served MR, first as Poetry Editor, then Managing Editor, now as an Editor.
Irving Weissman, who “always wanted to write,” until recently worked in the construction industry; he fought in both the Spanish Civil War and World War II, and was a defendant in the Pittsburgh Smith Act Trial.
Nancy Willard has published collections of poems and stories, and has also written for children; she teaches at Vassar.
erratum: Helen Bacon’s Seven Against Thebes, Oxford, 1974 as listed in our previous number (Summer 1978) was translated with Anthony Hecht. We regret the omission of Mr. Hecht’s name.