Volume 21, Issue 2
FRONT COVER: Abigail Rorer
DRAWING
Table of Contents
Waterspirits, Non-Fiction by Bill Jacobson
Music by the Waters; The Storm; Comb Jelly, Poetry by John Hay
The Moth and the Primrose, Fiction by Vincent G. Dethier
Getting It Right, Poetry by Carol Frost
The Visionary Art of Annie Dillard, Non-Fiction by David L. Lavery
A Dream Near Water, Poetry by Sydney Lea
Five Green Thoughts, Non-Fiction by Paul Shepard
The Summer Kitchen; The Return of the Muse, Poetry by Sandra Gilbert
The Mountains Where Cithaeron Is, Fiction by Amelia Moseley
John Keats on a Barn-Roof in Maine; Mr. Jefferson’s Horses, Poetry by Sarah Youngblood
Movies, Fiction by Stephen Dixon
New to the Urban Life, Poetry by Robert Louthan
Tristes Tropiques: Framing the Woman Question, Non-Fiction by Page duBois
When We Were Rich, Poetry by Susan Anderson
Subtle Fire: Dorothy Wordsworth’s Prose and Poetry, Non-Fiction by Susan M. Levin
Check-Out Counter, Poetry by Helen Bartlett
A Woman’s View of Transcendence: The Works of Sarah Orne Jewett, Non-Fiction by Josephine Donovan
The Maypole of Merry Mount, Non-Fiction by Richard Drinnon
Vampurella: Darwin and Count Dracula, Non-Fiction by Charles S. Blinderman
Contributors
Susan Anderson lived in Brazil, Florida and Texas, before graduating from Bennington College.
Helen Bartlett is studying literature and dance at Trinity College.
At work on a “Darwinian” novel, Charles S. Blinderman is a member of the English Department at Clark University,
V. G. Dethier, Gilbert L. Woodside Professor of Zoology at the Univ. of Massachusetts, has published both fiction and a number of technical books.
Stephen Dixon‘s fiction has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, American Review, and other periodicals; he has published a novel, two collections of short stories, and has a third collection coming out in September from Johns Hopkins Univ. Press.
Josephine Donovan edited Feminist Literary Criticism, 1975, and is at work on a biography of Sarah Orne Jewett.
Richard Drinnon, Professor of History at Bucknell, is an NEH Fellow this year; he has edited and written many books, the most recent of which, Facing West . . . , has just been published by the Univ. of Minnesota.
Page DuBois teaches literature at the Univ. of California, San Diego.
Carol Frost has published two collections of poems, as well as contributing poetry to a number of literary quarterlies.
Co-author of The Madwoman in the Attic, Sandra Gilbert is working on a sequel to that book, with Susan Gubar, and finishing an other collection of poems.
Author of The Run and The Great Beach, among others, John Hay is president of the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History, and will be visiting professor in Environmental Studies at Dartmouth.
Bill Jacobson is a writer, sculptor, site-artist, and a Gestalt Psychotherapist with a private practice.
David Lavery teaches at the Univ. of North Florida, and is at work on a book about Loren Eiseley.
Sydney Lea, a teacher at both Yale and Middlebury, is an editor of New England Review; his poem in this issue is from a collection, Searching The Drowned Man, to be published by Univ. of Illinois Press.
Peter Leight lives and works in New York City, and has published in various magazines.
Susan M. Levin has written on English Romantic poetry and confessions, and is writing a book about Dorothy Wordsworth.
Robert Louthan‘s poetry has appeared in many journals; his most recent book, Shrunken Planets, was published this year by Alice James books.
Michael McFee, a poet, has also taught film criticism and served as Poetry Editor of Carolina Quarterly.
Amelia Moseley‘s first published story appears in this issue of MR.
Poems by Diane Wald will be appearing soon in Missouri Review and Kayak.
Sarah Youngblood, two of whose poems appear in this issue, served on the editorial board of MR, and was a member of the English Department of Mount Holyoke College. Her poetry and critical essays appeared in various journals; her death this summer is a felt loss to her colleagues, her students and her readers.