Volume 22, Issue 1
FRONT COVER: Leonard Baskin
WOODCUT
Table of Contents
I Thought of Chatterton, the Marvelous Boy, Fiction by K. L. Gewertz
The Boarder, Poetry by Caroline Rosenstone
The Continental Heart, Fiction by Lissa McLaughlin
On the River, Poetry by Kate Daniels
On Growth and Form; Instant Replay; Achievement; Innocence, Poetry by Howard Nemerov
Howard Nemerov: An Interview, by Neal Bowers and Charles L. P. Silet
Away; El Mio Mar, Poetry by Andrew Salkey
Essays on Psychology and Literature:
Lacan & Literature: Imaginary Objects and Social Order, by Neal H. Bruss
Edmund Burke and the Break with Tradition: History versus Psychohistory, by Frederick S. Troy
Freud and the Twenties, by Paul Schwaber
Salamander, Severed in Spring Plowing, Poetry by David Lyon
Mental Cases, Poetry by Lloyd Schwartz
And Die in Dixie: Funerals in the Slave Community, Non-Fiction by David R. Roediger
Bethlehem, Pa., 1930, Poetry by Gary Zebrun
Critical Condition, Non-Fiction by Shaun O’Connell
Enough, Poetry by Christopher Howell
Contributors
Neal Bowers is currently working on a collection of interviews with poets in America and England, and on a book-length study of Theodore Roetheke.
Neal H. Bruss is chairman of linguistics at the University of Massachusetts, Boston; he is engaged in a study of semiotics.
Kate Daniels is co-editor of Poetry East, and teaches at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville.
Kenneth Gewertz, at Western New England College in Springfield, Mass, has published short fiction in Ploughshares and Carleton Miscellany, and is finishing a novel.
Christopher Howell was Director of the 1980 Portland Oregon Poetry Festival.
David Lyon, Managing Editor of Lynx House Press, is the author of The Sound of Horns and book editor of New Roots.
Formerly grade school teacher, film instructor, and freelance journalist, Lissa McLaughlin has an M.A. from the Brown University Graduate Writing Program and is working on children’s books.
The distinguished poet, Howard Nemerov, is now teaching at Washington University in St. Louis.
Shaun O’Connell is on the book reviewing staff for the Boston Globe, and is director of graduate studies in English at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
David R. Roediger is with the history department at Northwestern University; he is co-author with Philip S. Foner of The Movement for a Shorter Day in the United States and a specialist on labor history and Afro-American culture.
A consultant at the Office of Cultural Affairs in New Haven, Conn., and instructor at Yale, Caroline Rosenstone has published in Ms. Magazine, New Boston Review, and others.
Jamaican poet, novelist, teacher, Andrew Salkey is Professor of Writing at Hampshire College.
A Clinical Associate at the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis, Paul Schwaber is also a professor at the College of Letters, Wesleyan University.
Lloyd Schwartz is classical music editor for Boston Phoenix, and publishes frequently in the literary journals.
Charles L. P. Silet of Iowa State University at Ames, editing with Neal Bowers a book of interviews, is a specialist in film and contemporary American culture. He is at work on a study of Photography and the nineteenth century literary imagination.
A member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Massachusetts, Frederick S. Troy is a specialist in eighteenth century English literature, and one of the founding editors of The Massachusetts Review.
Gary Zebrun, a student in the Writing Program at Brown University, has published in The New Republic, The American Scholar, Sewanee Review, Commonweal and other magazines.