Volume 22, Issue 2
FRONT COVER: Charles Wells
Bust of Martin Luther King, Jr., 1970
Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
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Table of Contents
Harold and Linda, Fiction by Pat Therese Francis
Patience in the Endless Rain; Old Friend, Poetry by Jacquelyn Bonomo
The Last Boat to America, Fiction by Mark Mirsky
Marconi Station, South Wellfleet; Between Two Oceans, Poetry by Steven Bauer
In Chekhov, Poetry by Barry Spacks
Minor Characters, Fiction by Joyce Carol Oates
Autographs, 1955, Poetry by Rudy Kikel
A Conversation with Alan Dugan, An interview with Donald Heines. Portrait by R. Viau. On Shields. Against World War III, Poetry by Alan Dugan.
The Intellectual Odyssey of Martin Luther King, Non-Fiction by Stephen B. Oates
Amaranth and Moly, Poetry by Amy Clampitt
Two Sisters Have I: Emily Dickinson’s Vinnie & Susan, Non-Fiction by Adalaide K. Morris
The Three Sisters, Poetry by Mary Kathryn Stillwell
The Portrait, Poetry by Jane Flanders
The Feminine Bildungsroman: Education Through Marriage, Non-Fiction by Elaine Hoffman Baruch
Saleswomen in Bakery Shops; The Vision Test, Poetry by Mona Van Duyn
Witness:
An Exorcism: Two Asians in America, Non-Fiction by C. Lok Chua
Exiles, Non-Fiction by William Brandon
Family Tragedy; Shore, Poetry by Diana Ó Hehir
John Muir and the Literature of Wilderness, Non-Fiction by John C. Elder
Observer: The 1980 Elections–Postmortem & Prospects, Non-Fiction by Ellsworth Barnard
How Things Go; Invitation, Poetry by Vern Rutsala
Contributors
Ellsworth Barnard is professor emeritus at Massachusetts (Amherst). His books include studies of Shelley, Robinson, and Willkie.
Elaine Hoffman Baruch, at York College of CUNY, editor of a women’s studies series, is writing a book on the characterization of women in Western literature.
Now at Colby College, Steven Bauer has had poetry in The Nation, Prairie Schooner and Poetry Now.
Jacquelyn Bonomo, has received a 1981 Poetry Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
William Brandon is a distinguished writer on the American West and American Indian History.
A native of Singapore, C. Lok Chua teaches in Minnesota and publishes works with an Asian-American perspective.
Amy Clampitt‘s poetry appears in The New Yorker and The Atlantic Monthly, among others.
Alan Dugan won the National Book Award and Pulitzer prize, has been a Guggenheim Fellow and Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, is a staff member at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Mass.
Professor of English at Middlebury, John C. Elder, is at work on a book relating contemporary poetry and science.
Jane Flanders was a teaching fellow at the Wesleyan Writers’ Conference in 1980. Her most recent book of poems (1980) is Leaving and Coming Back.
Pat Therese Francis‘s work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Kansas Quarterly and Poetry Northwest.
Rudy Kikel has taught at Suffolk University in Boston. He won the 1977 Grolier Poetry Prize.
Mark Mirsky, editor of Fiction, has published half a dozen books, and is director of the English Graduate Program at C.C.N.Y.
Adalaide K. Morris has held lecturing and professorships at Virginia, Georgetown and is at Iowa. Her book Wallace Stevens: Imagination and Faith (1974) was published by Princeton.
Donald Heines, chairman of English at Cape Cod Community College, is the author of Times Four: The Short Story in Depth (Prentice-Hall).
Joyce Carol Oates, distinguished novelist, winner of the National Book Award, published her latest novel Bellefleur with Dutton, 1980.
The article on Martin Luther King by Stephen B. Oates recalls 1962 when Dr. King contributed to MR‘s A Centenary Gathering for Henry David Thoreau. From the jailhouse in Albany, Georgia, Dr. King dictated his testimony on Thoreau’s “Creative Protest.” Professor Oates, of Massachusetts (Amherst), is completing a biography of King for Harper & Row.
Diana Ó Hehir teaches at Mills College. Her books of poems include Summohed (Missouri), and The Bower to Change Geography (Princeton).
Vern Rutsala is author of several books of poetry, including The New Life, Paragraphs, and The Journey Begins.
Barry Spacks‘ most recent collection of poems, Imagining a Unicorn, was published by Univ. of Georgia Press.
Poetry by Mary Kathryn Stillwell has appeared in the Paris Review and the N.Y. Quarterly, among others.
Winner of the Bollingen Prize and The National Book Award, Mona Van Duyn has published in The New Yorker, Poetry and Ploughshares. Her latest book is Merciful Disguises.
R. Viau is an art student at Cape Cod Community College.
The sculptor Charles Wells, a graduate of Amherst College, won a Prix de Rome for sculpture and a John Taylor Armstrong Award for etching.