Volume 23, Issue 2
FRONT COVER: Monica Vachula
landscapes from a lithograph entitled HAMPSHIRE COUNTY SAMPLER
Table of Contents
Things Dream of Their Likenesses and Needs, Poetry by Colette Inez
Fair Elayne and the Frogman, Fiction by Kenneth Lash
Seasons and Sceneries, Poetry by Arnold Kenseth
Interview with Robert Bly, by Joseph Shakarcki
Halcyon Days, Poetry by Louis Coxe
A Pilgrim of Culture: Bernard Berenson, Non-Fiction by Bernard Elevitch
Anti-Father; Three Days of Forest, A River, Free, Poetry by Rita Dove
The Art of Growing Bonsai, Fiction by Sydney Harth
Interview with Madeline DeFrees, Non-Fiction by Carol Ann Russell
Scenes from the Great Round; Recessional from the Cloister, Poetry by Madeline DeFrees
Contours of Greece, a signature of poems by Stanley Koehler
Whispering Saturday, Fiction by Peter La Salle
On a Hill in Crete, Poetry by William Virgil Davis
Paris; A Stone in Hand, Poetry by Renée G. Hartman
For the Sin, Poetry by Shirley Kaufman
Motor Car, Bomb, God: Israeli Poetry in Translation, Non-Fiction by Ruth Whitman
I Don’t Like Hair on a Man’s Face, Poetry by Laurel Speer
Paper White Narcissus, Poetry by Chase Twichell
Wyndham Lewis the Writer: A Preoccupation with the Real, Non-Fiction by Terence Hegarty
The Piano Scholar, Poetry by John Logan
Alp, Poetry by Tom Sleigh
The Art of Yeats’s “Lapis Lazuli,” Non-Fiction by William O’Donnell
And Leave the Voice of Commerce, Poetry by Tony Connor
Contributors
TONY CONNOR, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, teaches at Weslyean; his New & Selected Poems appears with Univ. of Georgia Press.
LOUIS COXE, distinguished poet and critic, teaches at Bowdoin College.
WILLIAM VIRGIL DAVIS won the 1980 Yale Series of Younger Poets award with One Way to Reconstruct the Scene.
A recent Guggenheim Fellow, MADELINE DE FREES has just published Magpie on the Gallows (Copper Canyon Press).
RITA DOVE, now at Arizona State Univ., was Pittman Fellow at Tuskegee Institute during Spring 1982.
BERNARD ELEVITCH teaches at Boston University.
SYDNEY HARTH lives in Madison, Wisconsin and has recently finished her first novel London Again.
Married and mother of two children, RENÉE G. HARTMAN has worked as librarian, social worker, researcher and editor; besides poetry she also writes plays and stories.
TERENCE HEGARTY, a native of Dublin, Ireland now lives in Rensselaer County, New York where he writes essays and fiction.
COLETTE INEZ conducts a poetry workshop at the New School in N.Y.C.
SHIRLEY KAUFMAN has published three books with Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, and has recently completed a new collection of poems entitled Claims; she has settled in Jerusalem since 1973.
ARNOLD KENSETH is author of The Holy Merriment (Univ. North Carolina Press); he formerly taught at the University of Massachusetts, and is minister at the South Amherst Congregational Church.
Poet STANLEY KOEHLER has long been associated with MR both as editor and contributor; he has frequently served as director of the summer Poetry Workshop at Chautauqua, N.Y.
PETER LA SALLE has an N.E.A. creative writing fellowship for 1982-83; he is author of The Graves of Famous Writers & Other Stories, and his work has appeared in Best American Short Stories.
KENNETH LASH is a contributing editor of North American Review.
JOHN LOGAN has taught at SUNY Buffalo since 1966; holder of Rockefeller, Guggenheim, N.E.A. and other grants, his latest book of poems is The Bridge of Change.
WILLIAM H. O’DONNELL, at Penn State University, has recently finished a catalogue raisonné of the art collection of W. B. Yeats.
CAROL ANN RUSSELL formerly studied with Madeline DeFrees at the University of Montana from which she received an M.F.A. in poetry.
JOSEPH SHAKARCHI a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Colorado where he is writing a thesis on the poetry of Robert Bly.
TOM SLEIGH is currently a Second Year Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Mass.
LAUREL SPEER, poet and playwright and short story writer, now works out of Tucson, Arizona.
CHASE TWICHELL recently published Northern Spy with the University of Pittsburgh Press.
RUTH WHITMAN is editor and translator of a bilingual anthology of modern Yiddish poetry; the fifth collection of her own poems, entitled Permanent Address, has been brought out by Alice James Books.