Volume 20, Issue 2
FRONT COVER: Hanlyn Davies
Chieftain, 1978
OFFSET LITHOGRAPH
22 X 30 INCHES
Table of Contents
The Way Down, The Way Up, Fiction by Donna Wilner
Pacheteau’s Calistoga Hot Springs, Poetry by Stephen Ratcliffe
Lionel Trilling and the Romantic Tradition, Non-Fiction by Jeffrey Cane Robinson
In Place; Watching, Poetry by Joan Joffe Hall
Two Modern Men, A Woman, and A Dog: A Short Story, Poetry by Jacquelyn Bonomo
Post-Party Politics: Doris Lessing’s novels of the Seventies, Non-Fiction by C. J. Bullock and Kay L. Stewart
Sonnet to Seabrook, Poetry by David Ray
Domestic Animals, Poetry by Bob McNamara
Yeats’ Prayer, Poetry by Lloyd Schwartz
An Innovation in Offset Lithography: The Press as the Artists Tool, Non-Fiction by Hanlyn Davies
Ghost, Art by Hanlyn Davies
Self-Portrait, Art by Oriole Farb
Le Soupir, Art by Ron Michaud
Iso Series #2, Art by Dale Schleappi
Imagining Women: Notes Toward a Feminist Poetic, Non-Fiction by Mary Carruthers
The Remote Collector, Poetry by Andrew Salkey
The Wedding, Poetry by Sandra Kohler
My Relatives for the Most, Poetry by Frederick B. Hudson
Ghosts of the Past: O’Neil and Hamlet, Non-Fiction by Normand Berlin
Preparing the Silk, Poetry by Honor Johnson
Women on Women’s Destiny: Maturity as Penance, Non-Fiction by Nina Auerbach
Reflections & Review
Human Geography, Poetry by Ruth Whitman
Re-Stirring the Waters, or The Voice that Sees the World as Patients, Non-Fiction by Neal H. Bruss
Erikson’s “Inner Space” Reconsidered, Non-Fiction by Cynthia Griffin Wolff
Hannah Arendt’s Testimony, Non-Fiction by Bernard Elevitch
Holocaust on West German Television: The (In)Ability to Mourn?, Non-Fiction by Werner Sollors
“Cheers, Tarfunk”: The Letters of Flannery O’Connor, Non-Fiction by Carol Shloss
View from the Mid-Fifties, Poetry by Leonard Nathan
Contributors
The art section in this issue is the Work of ARTISTS-RESEARCH-TECHNOLOGY, inc. The group, whose members are Hanlyn Davies, Oriole Farb, Ron Michaud, Hiroshi Murata, John Roy, and Dale Schleappi, is preparing for a new show at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University in 1980. MR‘s presentation of six original color lithographs is made possible with support from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities.
Nina Auerbach has published articles on women in Victorian fiction and a book, Communities of Women: An Idea in Fiction.
Author of The Base String: The Underworld in Elizabethan Drama and Thomas Sackville, normand berlin teaches Shakespeare and Modern Drama at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Jacquelyn Bonomo is pursuing a doctorate in English Education at Rutgers.
Neal H. Bruss has co-edited V. N. Voloshinov’s Freudianism and published an essay, “On the Birth of Semiotics in Psychoanalysis . . .” in The Sign: Semiotics Around the World.
A graduate of the University of Leeds, England, C. J. Bullock teaches English at the University of Alberta, Canada.
Mary Carruthers, currently Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Chicago Circle, has published articles on Chaucer and Piers Plowman and a book, The Search for St. Truth: A Study of Meaning in Piers Plowman.
Bernard Elevitch teaches philosophy at Boston University and is working on a critical exposition of Freudian theory.
Joan Joffe Hall‘s collection of poems, The Rift Zone, was published in 1978.
Frederick B. Hudson writes that he has been “in other days . . . mailman, salesman, reporter, therapist, and loved.”
Honor Johnson is a poet, print-maker, and Ph.D. student at UCLA.
Sandra Kohler works in the Pennsylvania program for Poets-in-the School.
Martha Ronk Lifson‘s poems have appeared in Momentum, Bachy, and Chrysalis.
Poet and English teacher, Bob McNamara has also worked as an auto-mechanic, carpenter, and laboratory assistant.
Leonard Nathan‘s books include Returning Your Call and The Teachings of Grandfather Fox.
Stephen Ratcliffe‘s poems have appeared in Poetry, The Southern Review, and The Greensboro Review.
David Ray completed a novel while a Fellow at the MacDowell Colony.
Jeffrey Cane Robinson has published essays on the Romantic poets and on Homer.
Andrew Salkey is a Jamaican poet and novelist whose most recent publications are Come Home, Malcolm Heartland and Writing in Cuba Since the Revolution.
Lloyd Schwartz is classical music critic for the Boston Phoenix.
Carol Shloss‘s book, Reading Flannery O’Connor, will be forthcoming in 1980.
Werner Sollors teaches American Studies at Columbia University.
Kay L. Stewart has done work on Robertson Davies, John Fowles, and Doris Lessing.
Ruth Whitman‘s sixth book, Tamsen Donner: A Woman’s Journey, won the John Masefield Award of the Poetry Society of America.
Danna Wilner lives in Oregon, and is working on a novel.
Cynthia Griffin Wolff‘s most recent book is A Feast of Words: The Triumph of Edith Wharton.