Volume 22, Issue 3
FRONT COVER: from a pair of cartoons appearing in New York Times portraying Civil War medic Dr. Mary Walker being arrested for wearing trousers which are more modest than the then popular hoopskirt. Reproduced in the Smithsonian, VII (March 1977), 116-17.
Table of Contents
The Culture of Manhattan, Non-Fiction by Loren Baritz
Lines in Dejection; Paradise of Sweet Chance, Poetry by M. L. Rosenthal
Going Home, Fiction by Margaret Morganroth Gullette
The Sister Fish, Poetry by Suzanne E. Berger
Needlepoint in Autumn, Poetry by Charles Edward Eaton
The Diamond at the Bottom of the Well, Fiction by Venkatesh Srinivas Kulkarni
The Structures We Love, Poetry by Patricia Goedicke
Blessings in Disguise: Cross Dressing as Re-Dressing for Female Modernists, Non-Fiction by Susan Gubar. Ten illustrations.
Drunk on Bread, Poetry by Peter Viereck
Window, Poetry by David Marshall
Sane People, Sane Life: The Death of Elizabeth Wise Benton, Non-Fiction by Mildred Small, Introduction by Judith Small
Moss; The Balcony by Manet, Poetry by Martha R. Lifson
For Colored Girls, Suicide or Struggle, Non-Fiction by Andrea Benton Rushing
Keeping on Going; Together, Poetry by Karl Krolow
Victor Serge and Socialist Thought, Non-Fiction by Richard Greeman
Airports; Late Words to C., Poetry by Alan Williamson
My Father’s House, Poetry by Andrew Hudgins
Hoping These Letters Reach You; Anima Poetarum, Poetry by Cathrael Kazin
Because I Was Flesh: Edward Dahlberg and the Rhetoric of American Identity, Non-Fiction by Carol Shloss
Contributors
Loren Baritz, Provost of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, is author of City on a Hill and other books.
Suzanne Berger has published These Poems with Penmaen Press and teaches creative writing at Boston University.
Winner of the Ridgely Torrence Memorial Award, Charles Edward Eaton has recently brought out his seventh book of poems, Colophon of the Rover.
Stuart Friebert is a recent NEA Fellow; at Oberlin he translates Italian, Polish, and Spanish work as well as German.
Richard Creeman of the University of Hartford is a scholar of socialist history.
Patricia Goedicke teaches poetry at Sarah Lawrence, and her most recent work is Crossing the Same River.
Susan Gubar, of Indiana University, is co-author of The Madwoman in the Attic.
Margaret Morganroth Gullette is Assistant Director at the Harvard-Danforth Center for Teaching & Learning; she is at work on a book to be called The Literature of the Middle Years of Life.
Andrew Hudgins is a Fellow at the University of Iowa.
A graduate of Smith College, Cathrael Kazin has published in The New Republic and other magazines.
Karl Krolow is a distinguished West German poet.
V. S. Kulkarni teaches at Grambling State University.
Martha Lifson teaches at Occidental College; her poetry appears frequently in the little journals.
David Marshall teaches Comparative Literature and writing at Yale.
M. L. Rosenthal of New York University is the distinguished critic and poet.
Andrea Benton Rushing teaches in English and Black Studies at Amherst College.
Carol Shloss of Wesleyan is author of Flannery O’Connor’s Dark Comedies and an editor of Canto.
Mildred Benton Small is working on a chronicle of the Benton family.
Peter Viereck, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his poems Terror and Decorum, has a new book of poems, Applewood forthcoming.
Alan Williamson is Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in English at Harvard.