Volume 23, Issue 1
FRONT COVER: Monica Vachula
floriated letters from an alphabet entitled HAMPSHIRE COUNTY SAMPLER
LITHOGRAPH
Table of Contents
The Obliquity of Signs: THE SCARLET LETTER, Non-Fiction by Millicent Bell
The Soul in Parenthesis, Poetry by Brian Swann
Still Life with Bath, Fiction by Lynn Luria-Sukenick
I Want; The Sheep; The Body, Poetry by Sharon Olds
Feasting, Fiction by Elizabeth Benedict
Sexual Politics and the Social Structure in AS YOU LIKE IT, Non-Fiction by Peter B. Erickson
On Being Otomí; Otomí Salesman, Poetry by Frederic Will
The State of the Art: Ficiton and Its Audience, Non-Fiction by Annie Dillard
Wilbur’s Words: The Poetry of Richard Wilbur, Non-Fiction by Bruce Michelson
Lines Written in a Barbershop, Poetry by Marc Cohen
The Day After, Poetry by Gray Burr
Berryman’s DREAM SONGS: Missing Poet Beyond the Poet, Non-Fiction by Robert Hahn
The Libertine; The Inside-Outside Game; The Wart; Hell’s Angel Listening to Jefferson Airplane; Nice Thing; Silence, poems by Thom Gunn
Rule and Energy: The Poetry of Thom Gunn, Non-Fiction by Jay Parini
An Invitation to My Body, Poetry by Irene McKinney
Veiled Landscape with Cows, Poetry by Tenney Nathanson
Casualty Report, Poetry by Mark Halliday
The Maned Wolf, Poetry by Robert G. Tucker
Virginia Woolf and the Art of Madness, Non-Fiction by Susan M. Kenney and Edwin J. Kenney, Jr.
The Waiting Room, Poetry by Naomi Rachel
Making Calls to Grade Schools in the Berkshires, Poetry by Carolyne Wright
All the Subjects on the Threshold, Poetry by Michael Malinowitz
Contributors
Millicent Bell, of Boston University, has written extensively on Hawthorne; she was recently visiting professor at the Sorbonne.
Elizabeth Benedict has published poems in the Paris Review; this is her first published fiction.
Poems by Gray Burr have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, and other journals.
Marc Cohen has published in Shenandoah and others; he has an M.F.A. from Brooklyn College.
Annie Dillard is the author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek; her essay in this issue is from her book, Living by Fiction.
Peter Erickson of Williams College is a widely published Shakespeare specialist.
Born in England, Thom Gunn has published several books of poetry and teaches at California at Berkeley.
Robert Hahn is the author of Crimes, published by Lynx House Press.
Poet and actor, Mark Halliday has published stories in The New Yorker.
Teaching in the English Department at Colby College, Susan M. Kenney and Edwin J. Kenney, Jr. have both published works on Virginia Woolf and Elizabeth Bowen.
The author of four books of poetry, Lynn Luria-Sukenick is in this issue of MR publishing her first story.
An MFA graduate of Brooklyn College, Michael Malinowitz has published poetry in the Partisan Review, Helen Review and others.
Bruce Michelson of the University of Illinois, is a specialist in American literature.
Irene McKinney teaches writing at the University of Utah, and is author of a book of poems, The Girl with the Stone in Her Lap.
Tenney Nathanson is at Columbia completing a doctoral dissertation on Walt Whitman.
Sharon Olds is the author of Satan Says (1980) in the University of Pittsburgh Poetry Series.
Jay Parini teaches at Dartmouth; Little, Brown has recently published his novel, The Love Run.
At the University of British Columbia, Naomi Rachel is at work on a series of poems of which her selection in this issue is a part.
Brian Swann is author of a forthcoming book of poems, The Middle of the Journey (Univ. of Alabama).
Poet, teacher, editor, Robert Tucker of the University of Massachusetts has long served as co-editor of The Massachusetts Review. He has recently edited That Time of Year, a journal by Joyce Homer, for the University of Massachusetts Press.
Frederic Will teaches in Comparative Literature at Massachusetts and edits Micromegas, a poetry journal.
Artist Monica Vachula is a Smith College graduate.
Poet Carolyne Wright is a graduate of the writing program at Syracuse and 1980-81 Fellow at the Fine Arts Center at Provincetown.