Volume 25, Issue 1
FRONT COVER: Yuan Yunsheng
To Lay Waste, 1983
INK DRAWING ON RICE PAPER
41 X 42.5 IN
Table of Contents
July, Fiction by Luanne Rice
The Pumpkin Man; Light and Shadow; Gray Squirrel; The Nuthatch; Old Poet, Poetry by Robert Francis
Emily Dickinson’s War Poetry, Non-Fiction by Shira Wolosky
A Taste of Bonaparte, Poetry by Judah Jacobowitz
The Deck, Fiction by John Griesemer
Earning A Living; Catbird, Poetry by Brian Swann
Being Occupied, Fiction by Diane Hopkins
Lula, Poetry by Berry Goldensohn
The Art of Yuan Yunsheng, twelve paintings and drawings, with an essay by Deirdre Chetham
Rediscovering the Indians, Non-Fiction by Richard Drinnon
Never Quite a Hollywood Star, Fiction by Carter Revard
Names, Poetry by Hayden Carruth
The Friction of the Mind: The Early Poetry of Adrienne Rich, Non-Fiction by Mary Slowik
Prospero’s Anger, Non-Fiction by Peter Lindenbaum
A Monk on Heimaey, Poetry by Marc Hudson
Contributors
HAYDEN CARRUTH‘s most recent books are a collection of poems, If You Call This Cry a Song, and a critical study, Effluences from the Sacred Caves.
DEIRDRE CHETHAM, fluent in Chinese, conducts tours in China.
The subject of RICHARD DRINNON‘s forthcoming book is Dillon S. Myer, responsible for the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII, later for the suppression of Native Americans.
The poems by ROBERT FRANCIS that appear in this issue are from his most recent book, Butter Hill and Other Poems, with an introduction by Richard Wilbur.
BARRY GOLDENSOHN teaches at Skidmore College and has published several books of verse.
JOHN GRIESEMER, actor and fiction writer, has appeared in as well as written films; his fiction has been published in a number of reviews.
DIANE HOPKINS lives and writes fiction in Framingham, MA.
Editor and writer MARC HUDSON has recently finished a verse translation of Beowulf.
JUDAH JACOBOWITZ, an engineer for Mobil Research, has been writing poetry for three years and has published in a variety of magazines.
PETER LlNDENBAUM‘s studies in 17th century English literature have appeared in a number of scholarly journals.
Part Osage, CARTER REVARD teaches medieval and native American literature at Washington University, St. Louis.
Fiction writer LUANNE RICE lives in New York City.
“A migrant worker for the academy,” MARY SLOWIK has taught at several Wisconsin colleges.
BRIAN SWANN, who teaches English at The Cooper Union, will soon publish another collection of poems, Songs of the Sky.
SHIRA WOLOSKY teaches English at Yale University.
Artist YUAN YUNSHENG is artist-in-residence at Harvard University.