Volume 25, Issue 3
FRONT COVER: Katherine Elizabeth McClellan
Julius Ward Howe, Smith College Archive
Table of Contents
Volunteers for Liberty: Letters from Joe and Leo Gordon, American in Spain, 1937-38, Edited and introduced by Daniel Czitrom
Grandfather, Poetry by Howard Levy
Romarias Dos Mutilados, Fiction by Hugh Fox
City; Carnival, Poetry by Barbara Moore
Obsessed with Vertigo, Non-Fiction by Lawrence Shaffer
Finding Her Brother Lost; The Running Dream; Dear Heart, Poetry by Pamela Yenser
No Hanukah Bush; Putting Down Roots; Four Questions About Surviving, Poetry by Joan Joffe Hall
The Photographs of Katherine Elizabeth McClellan, with an essay by Paula Deitz
Virginia Woolf and the Romance of Oxbridge, Non-Fiction by Lynne T. Hanley
The Landlocked Bride, Poetry by Susan Donovan
Sometimes, When It’s Slow on the 2 1/2’s, Fiction by George Burns
Nondescript Landscape, Poetry by Marc Hudson
At the Dig, Fiction by John Domini
Waking, Poetry by Frank Gaspar
Solving the Mad Hatter’s Riddle, Non-Fiction by Margaret Boe Birns
The Committee; The Oyster Boats, Poetry by Alice Mattison
Ruffled Grouse in the Forest; Camels Led by an Angel; Bullfight; Darius and the Herdsman, Poetry by John Allman
Requiem for the Outfitter to the Sisterhood, Non-Fiction by Madeline De Frees
Contributors
JOHN ALLMAN‘s second book of poems, Clio’s Children, will be out this year from New Directions. He has recently received a Pushcart Prize in poetry and an NEA fellowship.
MARGARET BOE BIRNS teaches at New York University and is a member of the Faculty for the New School for Social Research. She has published criticism and poetry.
GEORGE BURNS works as a marketing analyst at Plantronics in Santa Cruz, Calif.
DANIEL CZITROM teaches History at Mount Holyoke College and is the author of Media and the American Mind: From Morse to McLuhan.
MADELINE DE FREES is in her final year of teaching in the Univ. of Massachusetts writing program. She has a new book of poems in preparation, The Island in the Sound.
PAULA DEITZ has published articles on art, architecture and design in The New York Times, Harper’s Bazaar, et al., and is co-editor of The Hudson Review.
A member of the English Dept., Oregon State Univ., JOHN DOMINI has published a collection of short stories, Bedlam.
SUSAN DONOVAN is working on a novel of the Colonial American period.
A professor of American Thought and Language at Michigan State Univ., HUGH FOX has recently published a selection of his Spanish Journals, The Guernica Cycle–The Year Franco Died.
FRANK GASPAR‘s poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Georgia Review, and other quarterlies.
Author of two books of poems, JOAN JOFFE HALL teaches at the Univ. of Connecticut.
LYNNE T. HANLEY teaches Literature and Writing at Hampshire College and has published feminist criticism.
MARC HUDSON, presently editor for the Chief Joseph Dawn Archaeology Project at the Columbia Plateau, Washington, had published two collections of poems.
HOWARD LEVY was a recipient of the New York State CAPS Fellowship in Poetry; his poems have appeared in numerous magazines.
ALICE MATTISON has poems and stories recent or forthcoming in Shenandoah, Poetry Now and U.S.I.
BARBARA MOORE‘s first collection of poems, The Passionate City, was published by Hoffstadt Press in 1979 and, in 1981, she won a BBC prize.
LAWRENCE SHAFFER is senior editor at Macmillan and has published essays on film in Film Quarterly, Sight and Sound, et al.
PAMELA YENSER is a midlife mid-westerner employed at the Grinnell College Library in Iowa.
Inadvertently, WILLIAM BRANDON, who edited the letters of Stella Benson, published in Vol. 25, no. 2 of MR, was omitted from our Contributor’s Notes: Mr. Brandon, historian and novelist, is the author of the American Heritage Book of Indians; he has a forthcoming volume on the history of the Santa Fe Trail and is also at work on the diaries of Stella Benson.