Volume 26, Issue 4
FRONT COVER: Vanessa Bell
Nude
WOODCUT
Table of Contents
The Ideology of the National Security State, Non-Fiction by Richard Barnet
Hearing New Year’s Eve, Poetry by Colette Inez
Dirge for Autumn, Poetry by Larry Rubin
Memorial Day, Poetry by A.M. Krich
Observer: In Between States, Non-Fiction by Rustom Bharucha
Sydney to Brisbane, Fiction by Deirdre Burt
Dartmoor; How Divine is Forgiving?, Poetry by Marge Piercy
Virginia Woolf, Roger Fry and Post-Impressionism, Non-Fiction by Jonathan Quick
Strawberry Moon, Fiction by Anne Sheffield
The Uncompahgre Range, Poetry by Michael Pettit
Angels, Poetry by Caroline Knox
Psychic Numbing and Grumberg’s L’Atelier, Non-Fiction by Robert L. King
The Unnecessary Overcoat, Fiction by Kenneth Lash
Haply I think on Thee; Mary Queen of Scots, Poetry by Susan Snively
The Heir, Poetry by Joyce Carol Oates
Conversation with Grace Paley, edited by Peter Marchant and Earl Ingersoll
The Renewal of Tradition: Aristotle, Burke and the Humanists, Non-Fiction by Frederick S. Troy
Contributors
RICHARD BARNET is co-director of the Institute of Policy Studies in Washington.
Writer RUSTOM BHARUCHA is presently engaged in an intercultural theatre project in Asia; his essay in this issue will be included in his forthcoming book, Double Exposure.
DEIRDRE BURT‘s fiction has appeared in Ploughshares and other literary reviews.
DEBRA HINES, with an M.F.A. degree from the University of Iowa, is both a poet and a free-lance food writer.
COLETTE INEZ has published several poetry collections and teaches in the Writers’ Program, Columbia University.
EARL INGERSOLL teaches English at SUNY, Brockport.
Poet and teacher CAROLINE KNOX has published a collection of poems, The House Party, University of Georgia Press.
ROBERT L. KING‘s essay, published here, was written in response to an NEH Summer Institute at the University of Indiana; he teaches at Elms College.
Teacher and psychoanalyst A. M. KRICH has published poetry for fifty years in a number of journals.
KENNETH LASH writes a regular column for North American Review and has published a collection of stories, poems and essays, A Lot for the Money.
PETER MARCHANT teaches English at SUNY, Brockport.
JOYCE CAROL OATES, whose most recent novel, Mary: A Life, was published by Dutton, is now working with photographer John Ranard on a book about boxing.
MICHAEL PETTIT‘s poetry collection, American Light, was published by the University of Georgia Press.
MARGE PIERCY‘s latest books include a novel, Fly Away Home, and a volume of poetry, My Mother’s Body.
JONATHAN R. QUICK teaches English at the University of Massachusetts and writes on modern literature.
LARRY RUBIN has won a number of awards for his poetry and has published three volumes of poetry.
ANNE SHEFFIELD has taught writing and published poetry as well as fiction.
SUSAN SNIVELY‘s collection, From This Distance, was published by Alice James; she is a Dean and Writing Counselor at Amherst College.
A member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Massachusetts, FREDERICK S. TROY is a specialist in eighteenth century literature and a founding editor of MR.
We inadvertently failed to acknowledge in Vol. 26, 2-3 that Donald Junkins’ essay, “New England as Region and Idea,” was a version of a talk Professor Junkins gave for the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities’ series on New England writers, under a grant from the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy.