Volume 23, Issue 4
FRONT COVER: Leonard baskin
Portrait of Archibald MacLeish, 1982
DRAWING
Table of Contents
Barnstorming, Poetry by John Morgan
Keeping the Body Warm, Poetry by Pattiann Rogers
Unclassified Affections, Fiction by Margaret Morganroth Gullette
Arches, Poetry by Shirley Kaufman
A World Worth Living In, Non-Fiction by Robert D. Hoslworth
Syberberg’s “Our Hitler”: Wagnerianism & Alienation, Non-Fiction by Hans R. Vaget
In New Delhi; The Places, Poetry by Robin Skelton
Caliban as Poet: Reversing the Maps of Domination, Non-Fiction by Susan Willis
Annie LoPezzi; Image of Bernieri, Poetry by Bruce Smith
A Supper in Greenwich Village, Fiction by Oren McCleary
The New Federalism: Another Reagan Fantasy, Non-Fiction by Ellsworth Barnard
FOR ARCHIBALD MACLEISH, 1892-1982
Beauty & Wisdom, Non-Fiction by Henry Steele Commager
In Our Time A Long Time, Non-Fiction by Joseph Langland
Archibald MacLeish & Education, Non-Fiction by John William Ward
Reaching Out, Poetry by Donald Junkins
The Shine of the World: A Conversation with Archibald MacLeish, by William Heyen & Anthony Piccione
The Keeper of the Light, Poetry by Barbara Helfgott Hyett
Building a Tower, Poetry by Harry Humes
Fatal Metaphors, Non-Fiction by Robert L. King
Mother’s Routine, Poetry by Robert Louthan
Fresh Flowers for the Urn: Reassessing Robert Pack, Non-Fiction by Paul Mariani
Leviathan; Remains, Poetry by Robert Pack
Radio Comics; Baseball, Poetry by Robert Lord Keyes
American Friendship; Auden at Middlebury; Frost at Dartmouth, Non-Fiction by Charles H. Miller
The Man Who is Finished, Poetry by Jonathan Holden
A Lesson in Observation, Poetry by Larry Vershel
Contributors
ELLSWORTH BARNARD, Professor Emeritus of English, Univ. of Mass., has written on Shelley, Edwin Arlington Robinson, and Wendell Wilkie.
HENRY STELLE COMMAGER is the acknowledged dean of American historians.
MARGARET MORGANROTH GULLETTE‘s “Unclassified Affections” is one of a series of short stories about Grace and Dennis. Several chapters of her family memoir, Determinations, have appeared in MR.
WILLIAM HEYEN was awarded the Witter Bynner Prize in 1982 from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters given annually to an outstanding younger American poet.
Poet-in-Residence at Kansas State University, JONATHAN HOLDEN has poems forthcoming in several journals, and has just completed a book on Richard Hugo.
ROBERT D. HOLSWORTH, author of Public Interest Liberalism and the Crisis of Affluence, teaches American politics and political theory at Virginia Commonwealth University.
HARRY HUMES, a native of the Allentown, Pennsylvania area, edits a small poetry journal, Yarrow. His Winter Weeds was awarded the Devins Award for poetry in 1983.
BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT teaches and conducts writing workshops in the Massachusetts Artists-in-Residence program.
DONALD JUNKINS recently spent a year teaching at the University of Freiburg, Germany. His poems include Crossing By Ferry (1978), and he is editor of the anthology Contemporary World Poets (1976).
SHIRLEY KAUFMAN has published three books of poetry as well as two volumes of translations from the Hebrew.
ROBERT LORD KEYES won second prize in the Glascock Intercollegiate Poetry Contest in 1982.
ROBERT L. KING is associate professor of English, Elms College, Chicopee, Mass.
JOSEPH LANGLAND‘s Poet’s Choice (edited with Paul Engle) will be re-issued in 1983 by Time-Life Paperback Books. He is also author of Any Body’s Song (1980), published by Doubleday in the National Poetry Series.
ROBERT LOUIHAN’s interview with Donald Hall was published in The Weather for Poetry of the Poets on Poetry series of the University of Michigan Press in 1982.
Professor of English at Massachusetts and author, recently, of a biography of W. C. Williams and a book of poems, Crossing Cocytus, PAUL MARIANI is currently writing a biography of Robert Lowell and his generation of poets.
CHARLES H. MILLER founded World Eye Bookshop in Greenfield, Mass. Scribner’s will publish Auden: An American Friendship later this year.
JOHN MORGAN is Director of Creative Writing at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
OREN McCLEARY has published stories and written documentary films.
ROBERT PACK‘s most recent book is Walking to my Name; his new book, Faces in a Single Tree, a cycle of dramatic monologues, will include “Leviathan” and “Remains.”
ANTHONY PICCIONE, associate professor of English at SUNY Brockport has returned recently from a teaching assignment in Peking, China.
The Expectations of Light, PATTIANN ROGERS‘ first book, is forthcoming from Princeton.
Distinguished British poet and critic, ROBIN SKELTON teaches at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
BRUCE SMITH is a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Mass.
HANS R. VAGET has published widely on German literature. He teaches German and Comparative Literature at Smith College.
LARRY VERSHEL, poet and novelist, has been living in Europe since 1980.
JOHN WILLIAM WARD, former President of Amherst College, is now President of the American Council of Learned Societies.
SUSAN WILLIS is a Lecturer in the Afro-American Studies program at Yale University.