Volume 21, Issue 1
FRONT COVER: Elizabeth Frink
Tribute Head (detail), 1976
SCULPTURE
Courtesy Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York
Table of Contents
William Force Stead’s Friendship with Yeats and Eliot, Non-Fiction by George Mills Harper
Etruscan Things: Lucien’s Ploughman 1848, Poetry by Rika Lesser
Poison Pen Letters, Fiction by Christine Conti
New Mexico, Fiction by Norman Russell
Autobiography: Paris in the Twenties, Non-Fiction by Martha Foley
The Cathedral Chair, Poetry by Jon Silkin
Sculpture and Watercolor 1964 – 1979, Art by Elizabeth Frink; 19 illustrations with a foreword by the artist; Afterwords by Sarah Kent and Hilton Kramer
St. Magnus Visited, Non-Fiction by Elizabeth Huberman
André Malraux: Last Roundup, Non-Fiction by W. M. Frohock
Knowledge of Trees: University of Pennsylvania 1979, Poetry by Jeanne Murray Walker
Form and Content in German Expressionist Literature, Non-Fiction by Wolfgang Paulsen
The Apollonian Impulse, Non-Fiction by Paul Saagpakk
Preen Glands; Town Names for Parts of My Body, Poetry by Christopher Bursk
Strawberries, Poetry by Dorothy Hughes
Thomas Pynchon and the Novel of Motion, Non-Fiction by Richard Pearce
Ralph Ellison and the Anxiety of Influence, Non-Fiction by Joseph T. Skerrett
Contributors
Christopher Bursk was first published in MR in 1964. Houghton Mifflin brought out a book of his poems, Standing Watch, in 1978. He now teaches at Bucks County Community College.
Christine Conti, born and raised in Springdale, Pennsylvania, now works in publishing in New York City; her story in this issue is her first published fiction.
Martha Foley was associated with Whit Burnett and the founding of Story Magazine, and was the renowned editor of the annual anthology Best American Short Stories.
Elizabeth Frink is the distinguished British sculptor. Her most recent American exhibition was in New York in 1979.
W. M. Frohock is well known for his critical work on Malraux and other twentieth century European and American writers. In France this year, he is Professor Emeritus of Romance Languages at Harvard.
George Mills Harper is the author of several books on William Butler Yeats, and an authority on Platonism in English poetry.
Elizabeth Huberman is author of The Poetry of Edwin Muir (Oxford), and this year national president of the College English Association.
Dorothy Hughes has published The Green Loving (Scribners), and The Great Victory Mosaic (Univ. of Missouri).
Sarah Kent is associated with ICA Gallery in London.
Hilton Kramer is art critic for the New York Times.
Poems by Rika Lesser have appeared in The New Yorker, Prairie Schooner, and many other journals, and she has published two books of translations of poems by Rilke and by Hermann Hesse.
Wolfgang Paulsen teaches in the German Department at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His numerous publications include a book on Expressionism.
Richard Pearce is author of Stages of the Clown: Perspectives on Modern Fiction, and his essay in this issue is from a forthcoming work on the subject of motion in the contemporary novel.
Norman Russell is a veteran of Vietnam currently studying at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Paul Saagpakk is a noted lexicographer. His unabridged Estonian English dictionary is being published by Yale University Press.
Jon Silkin‘s latest book is entitled The Psalms with Their Spoils (Routledge) ; in recent years he has visited America several times on reading tours from his home in Newcastle Upon Tyne.
Jeanne Murray Walker teaches at the University of Delaware, and publishes frequently in the little magazines.