Volume 23, Issue 3
FRONT COVER: Jack Coughlin
Portrait of Denis Johnston, 1982
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Table of Contents
Immigrant’s Letter, Poetry by Baron Wormser
Cabin Class to Pubjanice, Fiction by Bernice Lewis Ravin
Concessions, Poetry by James Martin
A Tribute to Denis Johnston, a Dublin conversation between the playwright and Doris Abramson. Portrait (front cover) by Jack Coughlin.
We Are a Young Nation; Uncle and Li Ching, Heart of Han, Poetry by Marilyn Chin
Ancestors (A Daguerreotype), Poetry by Jane Flanders
The Making of Musa Maikudi, Fiction by Andrew Horn
For Aleichem, Poetry by M. F. Hershman
Against a Field Sinister, a memoir of Berkley and the Old Left in the days of Robert Oppenheimer, Non-Fiction by Edith A. Jenkins
Mount Shiga, Poetry by Paul R. Sheehan
Interest, from a book of memoirs by Laura (Riding) Jackson
The Inheritor, Poetry by Sharon Olds, for Muriel Rukeyser
Double Monologues: Voice in American Women’s Poetry, Non-Fiction by Susan R. Van Dyne
Ashes, Poetry by William Virgil Davis
Hawthorne Poem; After Supper, Poetry by Jane Eklund
Domestic Monologues: the Problem of “Voice” in Contemporary American Poetry, Non-Fiction by Sally M. Gall
Gold Beach, Poetry by Jonathan Monroe
I Know, Let’s Put on a Show Ourselves, Poetry by William Dickey
Communique, Fiction by Frances Sherwood
Cowboys Need Not Apply, Non-Fiction by Peter R. Decker
Eucalyptus; Talismans, Poetry by Peter Wild
Dove; Of a Night Fed With No Forgetfulness, Poetry by J. P. White
Truths the Devil Told Me: Poems and Parables, Non-Fiction by Nancy Willard
Contributors
DORIS ABRAMSON teaches in the Dept. of Theatre, Univ. of Mass.; she has written on the black contribution to American theatre, and is now working on a study of marriage in plays by American women.
A translator and poet, MARILYN CHIN has published work in the Iowa Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, and other literary journals.
JACK COUGHLIN teaches in the Art Dept. at the University of Massachusetts. His present cover drawing is one of a series of portraits of Irish literary figures.
WILLIAM VIRGIL DAVIS is Writer-in-Residence as well as Professor of English at Baylor University; he was winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize in 1979, and his volume One Way to Reconstruct the Scene was published by Yale.
PEER R. DECKER operates a cattle ranch in Colorado.
WILLIAM DICKEY‘s The Rainbow Grocery won the Juniper Prize from Univ. of Mass Press; his most recent book is The Sacrifice Consenting. He teaches at San Francisco State.
JANE EKLUND is an MFA candidate in the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
JANE FLANDERS, another winner of the Juniper Prize for her 1982 volume, The Students of Snow, will be poet-in-residence at Clark Univ. this spring.
Co-author (with M. L. Rosenthal) of The Genius of Modern Poetry to be published in Spring 1983, SALLY M. GALL writes about British and American poetry.
JONATHAN MONROE publishes essays on literary theory as well as poetry; he has recently returned from two years of study at the Univ. of Constance, West Germany.
LAURA (RIDING) JACKSON, distinguished poet, critic and editor, publishes in this issue the second excerpt to appear in MR from her book of memoirs now in preparation.
Married to labor activist David Jenkins, EDITH A. JENKINS, since her retirement from teaching, has published work in Feminist Studies and other journals.
M. F. HERSHMAN publishes poetry in New England Poetry, Ms., Beloit Poetry Journal, and other magazines.
ANDREW HORN has been teaching English and theatre at African univer sities since 1968; he has published plays and poetry as well as scholarly essays in 19th century American literature and African theatre.
JAMES MARTIN is Dean of Mount Ida Senior College in Newton, Mass.
SHARON OLDS‘ most recent volume, Satan Says, was part of the Pitt Poetry Series.
After years of political organizing and scholarly inquiry, BERNICE LEWIS RAVIN now “wants only to write fiction.”
Several of FRANCES SHERWOOD‘s stories will appear this year; she works as a writer/researcher.
PAUL R. SHEEHAN was a combat correspondent in Vietnam; he contributes to The Boston Ledger, and publishes poems in the San Fernando Poetry Journal, Gusto, The Poet, and other publications.
SUSAN R. VAN DYNE is a member of the Smith English Dept.; she is at present working on the Sylvia Plath archives at Smith. J. P. white’s poetry and fiction have appeared in Prairie Schooner, The Nation, North American Review, and other journals; In Pursuit of Wings was published in 1978.
PETER WILD has recently published a collection of poetry, Wilderness; his most recent prose collection is Pioneer Conservationists of Eastern America.
Poet, fictionalist and essayist NANCY WILLARD has contributed most recently to another genre: A Visit to William Blake’s Inn, poems for children; and The Marziapan Moon, a fairy tale.
BARON WORMSER‘s first collection of poems, The White Words, will be published in January by Houghton Mifflin.
ROBERT G. TUCKER (1921-1982)–poet, teacher, activist; since 1960 our trusted and valued editorial colleague–died December 13, after a long coronary illness. At the time of his death he was co-editor of this magazine.