Volume 28, Issue 1
FRONT COVER: Johann Israel de Bry
from an alphabet
Table of Contents
Lorenzo and the Pazzi Conspiracy; Moses Has Troubles with God’s Instructions, Poetry by Mark Nepo
Public Worlds/Private Muses: Criticism, Professionalism and the Audience for the Arts, Non-Fiction by Harold Fromm
A Dog in the Lifeboat, Poetry by Joyce Peseroff
The Lives of the Saints: Tolstoy, Marya Alexandrovna, and the Nature of Sanctity, Non-Fiction by Barbara Courtney
After Dinner She Discusses Marriage with Her Friends, Poetry by Debra Bruce
Witness: Dish Night, Non-Fiction by Normand Berlin
Beside the Passaic, Fiction by William Loiseaux
My Father, At the Wheel, Fiction by Jincy Willett
Home Again, Home Again, Fiction by James Gallant
Disarming Big Mad, Fiction by Karen Karbo
War Stories, Fiction by Lynne Hanley
The Gioconda Aria, Fiction by Joe Straub
The Lake, Fiction by Philip Simmons
The Wasp in the Study, Poetry by Michael Blumenthal
Desire in America, Poetry by Maxine Scates
The French-Canadian Experience in New England, Non-Fiction by Robert Schwartzwald, with photographs by Ulrich Bourgeois
Factory Discipline in the New Nation; Almy, Brown & Slater and the First Cotton-Mill Workers, 1790-1808, Non-Fiction by Gary Kulik
Contributors
NORMAND BERLIN, who teaches Shakespeare and Modern Drama at the University of Massachusetts, has published several books on the drama including, most recently, The Secret Cause: A Discussion of Tragedy, and Eugene O’Neill.
Teacher, poet, translator, MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL is preparing a new collection of poems, Against Romance; his volume, Laps, received the Juniper Prize in 1984.
DEBRA BRUCE has published a collection of poems, Pure Daughter, and a second one, Sudden Hunger, will be published by Arkansas University Press later this year.
BARBARA COURTNEY, psychotherapist and writer, is preparing a book about the experience of reading her own great-grandmother’s letters.
HAROLD FROMM is at present at work on a book about politics and professionalism in the literary world, tentatively called Alienating the Reader.
JAMES GALLANT has contributed poems to The Georgia Review, North American Review, Epoch and other quarterlies.
LYNNE HANLEY, who teaches at Hampshire College, has written essays on George Eliot, Joan Didion, Edith Wharton, as well as feminist literary criticism.
KAREN KARBO writes short fiction and screenplays, and is working on a collection of stories about Russian emigres.
Chairman of the Department of Social & Cultural History at the Smithsonian Institution, GARY KULIK is co-editor of The New England Mill Village, 1790-1860.
WILLIAM LOISEAUX has published a story in Carolina Quarterly, and has received a grant from the Maryland State Arts Council.
MARK NEPO‘s pieces in this issue are from an epic poem centered on the life of Michelangelo; he has contributed to many magazines and anthologies.
Poet and teacher JOYCE PESEROFF has published a book of poems, co-edited a collection of essays on Robert Bly and is at the moment editing The Ploughshares Poetry Reader.
A MacDowell Colony Fellow in 1984, MAXINE SCATES has completed a collection of poems, Toluca Street.
ROBERT SCHWARTZWALD is a specialist in Québécois literature and Director of the Five College Canadian Studies Program in Amherst.
Currently in the Writer’s Program at Washington University, PHILIP SIMMONS has published work in Ploughshares and Alaska Quarterly Review.
JOE STRAUB has published fiction and essays and recently completed a novel, American Standard.
JINCY WILLETT‘s fiction has appeared in the Yale Review and MR.
CHARLOTTE NEKOLA, whose name was inadvertently omitted from Notes in Vol. 27, 2, is at work on a first collection of poems and has co-edited Writing Red: An Anthology of American Women Poets, 1930-1940, to be published this spring by the Feminist Press.