Volume 21, Issue 4
FRONT COVER: T. W. Williams
frontispiece, 1876
THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER
Table of Contents
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: A Nightmare Vision of American Boyhood, Non-Fiction by Cynthia Griffin Wolff
For My Daughter, Poetry by Sharon Olds
Learning: Ten Twentieth-Century Texts, Non-Fiction by Greg Audette
Altamira, Poetry by Leonard Nathan
Literary News as Literary History: Chapter for a Book of Memoirs, Non-Fiction by Laura (Riding) Jackson
Silo Letter in the Dead of a Warm Winter, Poetry by Michael McFee
Poem After Seeing a Photograph of the Turin Shroud, Poetry by Robert Lietz
Trio, Fiction by Susan Engberg
Frame, Poetry by Peter Leight
On an Untitled Photo: Three Pages Held Up to the Sky, Poetry by Diane Wald
Donald Reichert’s Boxes: An Interview with the Artist, by Francis Murphy; six illustrations
Grandfather in the Room of Night, Poetry by William Hunt
How to Read Das Kapital, Non-Fiction by Robert Paul Wolff
Suicide, Poetry by Susan Anderson
A Scale of Losses, Poetry by Theodore Morrison
I Don’t Eat Potatoes, Fiction by Leslie Lawrence
Blake’s Wonderful Car Delivers Us Wonderfully Well; The Sun and Moon Circus Soothes the Wakeful Guests, Poetry by Nancy Willard
Two Grandmothers; Lines for the Fishermen, Poetry by Nina Payne
My Brother’s Work, Poetry by Stephen Dunn
The Hem of My Garment: An Interview with Theodore Rosengarten about the Makings of “Nate Shaw,” by George Abbot White
The Inside of the Outsider: Blacks and Jews in Contemporary Drama, Non-Fiction by Ellen Schiff
Contributors
Susan Anderson began publishing poetry while at Scripps College, California, and has worked as a broadcast journalist for CBS and Pacifica Radio.
Greg Audette, long a valued contributor to MR, lives and writes in Hanover, New Hampshire.
A Circus of Needs is Stephen Dunn‘s third collection of poems (Carnegie Mellon).
Susan Engberg‘s stories have appeared in Kenyan Review, Sewanee Review, and many others; three have received the O’Henry Prize.
1979-80 Poet-in-Residence at Northeastern Illinois University, William Hunt‘s long poem, Oceans and Corridors of Orpheus was published by Elpenor Press.
Laura (Riding) Jackson is the distinguished poet, critic and editor; a new edition of her collected poems was published in this country and England in 1980. Mrs. Jackson is now preparing a book of memoirs.
Leslie Lawrence‘s stories have been published in Small Press Review, INTRO 10 and Swift River; she lives in Cambridge and is completing a novel.
Raised in Kentucky, Peter Leight now lives and works in New York City.
The most recent book by Robert Lietz, At Park and East Division (L’Epervier), will be out in the Spring of 1981.
Michael McFee was Poetry Editor of Carolina Quarterly for several years.
Theodore Morrison, formerly at Harvard, and former Director of the Breadloaf Writers Conference, now resides in Amherst.
English professor at Smith College, Francis Murphy is guest curator at the Museum of Fine Arts in Springfield and a co-editor of Norton’s Anthology of American Literature.
Leonard Nathan‘s most recent book of poetry is Dear Blood (Pittsburgh 1980); he is currently translating the Sanskrit epic, Rdmaydna.
The poetry of Sharon Olds has appeared in Poetry, The Nation, and others; her first collection is called Satan Says.
Nina Payne teaches at Hampshire College.
Ellen Schiff‘s articles have appeared in Modern Drama and Conservative Judaism; she is working on a book about Jewish characters in western drama since WWII.
The poems of Diane Wald have appeared in The Iowa Review, Kayak, Missouri Review and others.
George Abbott White is a teacher and clinical psychologist; he edited essays on Simone Weil and is writing a biography of F. O. Matthiessen.
Nancy Willard teaches at Vassar; her forthcoming book, William Blake’s Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers will be published by Harcourt Brace.
The author of books on Samuel Richardson and Edith Wharton, Cynthia Griffin Wolff is now working on a book about Emily Dickinson. After the past decade at the Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, she has now joined the faculty at M.I.T.
Robert Paul Wolff, philosopher and social theorist, has published widely on social and political philosophy, and public affairs. He is currently writing a book on Marxian economic theory; he teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.