Volume 27, Issue 1
FRONT COVER: Joyce Treiman
Waiting (Self-Portrait), 1986
OIL PAINTING
Table of Contents
Just Turn Like a Gear, Fiction by Tim Gauteaux
Defective Parts of Speech: Technical Manual; Translations; Found; “An Auxillary Used to Express Necessity, Duty, Obligations, etc.”; Sunday, Poetry by Tom Wayman
The Sons Karamazov: Dostoevsky’s Characters as Freudian Transformation, Non-Fiction by Neal Bruss
The Potato Field; The Scientist’s Widow, Poetry by Rita Gabis
A Calling, Poetry by Kay Ryan
Flannery O’Connor and the Fiction of Grace, Non-Fiction by Arthur F. Kinney
The Garden Statues, Poetry by Susan Donnelly
The Dark Night of the 747 I; II; III; IV; V, Poetry by Marilyn Hacker
Joyce Treiman, paintings and drawings, with a note by Esther Sparks
Some Talk, Fiction by Mark Kamine
Fourth of July, Fiction by Randeane Tetu
Spin the Bottle at Eleanor Hartle’s, Poetry by Jane Flanders
Witness: Creativity in Science, Non-Fiction by George Greenstein
Galileo and Other Renegades; Through Phases of Plum, Poetry by Sarah White
Playing at Being Powerless: New England Ladies Fairs, 1830-1930, Non-Fiction by Beverly Gordon
Contributors
NEAL BRUSS, who teaches English at the University of Massachusetts Boston Campus, has just completed his book, Freud’s Semiotics: The Interpretive Method.
SUSAN DONNELLY‘s first book of poetry, Eve Names the Animals, won the Samuel French Morse Prize.
JANE FLANDERS‘ poetry has earned her an NEA Grant, The Nation Award and three Pushcart Prizes; her 1982 collection, The Student of Snow, received the University of Massachusetts Press’ Juniper Prize.
RITA GABIS has been a student in the University of Massachusetts MFA program.
Editor and teacher TIM GAUTREAUX has published poetry and fiction in The Greensboro Review, Kansas Quarterly and other literary magazines.
BEVERLY GORDON teaches in the School of Family Resources & Consumer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin; she is collecting material for a book about fairs.
GEORGE GREENSTEIN has written technical articles on astrophysics; his non-technical book on pulsars and black holes, Frozen Star, received the 1984 Phi Betta Kappa Award in Science and the US Steel Science writing award for 1984.
MARILYN HACKER, editor of 13th Moon, has published three volumes of poetry and lives with her daughter in New York.
MARK KAMINE lives and works in New York.
Long interested in the work of Southern writers, ARTHUR F. KINNEY is the author of Flannery O’Connor’s Library: Resources of Being and Faulkner’s Narrative Poetics.
As well as contributing poems to Poetry, Kenyon Review, Yale Review and other journals, KAY RYAN has published a collection of her work, Strangely Marked Metal.
RANDEANE TETU has received several awards from New England Sampler; she is currently at work on her second novel.
SARAH WHITE has published poems, translations and essays in Chelsea, La Fusta, The Village Voice and a number of other magazines.
Canadian poet TOM WAYMAN has published collections of both poems and criticism; he is currently reaching creative writing and journalism at the Kootenay School of Writing’s Vancouver Centre.