Volume 29, Issue 1
Table of Contents
The Boy Friend, Fiction by Joyce Carol Oates
A Dangerous Trade; A Small Thing Love Is; Glistening, Poetry by Linda Gregg
The Director as Pacifist-Anarchist: An Interview with Judith Malina, Non-Fiction by Richard Trousdell
The Day the First Grade Voted for the Death Penalty, Poetry by Denise Duhamel
Fidelity, Poetry by Martha Zweig
Arboretum; San Luis Pass, Poetry by Bruce Wetteroth
Melville and Marquesan Eroticism, Non-Fiction by William Heath
The Other; At the University, Poetry by Honor Johnson
In Green Pastures, Poetry by Walter MCDonald
ARTS IN REVIEW:
American Novels, 1987, Non-Fiction by Roger Sale
Recent Drama, 1987, Non-Fiction by Robert King
American Poetry, 1987, Non-Fiction by Paul Jenkins
Mr. Ng at the Great Wall, Fiction by Michael Laser
The Passionate Transitory in the Collected Poems of Desmond Egan, Non-Fiction by Conor Johnston
The Mojo and the Sayso, Drama by Aishah Rahman
Contributors
DENISE DUHAMEL, who teaches at Baruch College, CUNY, has published poems in Folio, Soundings East, and other literary reviews.
LINDA GREGG, who has received numerous awards for her work, had a special issue of Ironwood devoted to her work.
While teaching American literature at various institutions, WILLIAM HEATH has published poems, reviews, essays and fiction in various journals and has completed a novel.
PAUL JENKINS, is co-editor and poetry editor of MR, and author of a book of poems, Forget the Sky (L’Epervieu Press).
A printer and photographer as well as a poet, HONOR JOHNSON has published several collections of verse and prose.
CONOR JOHNSTON teaches at Massasoit Community College, Boston, and writes on Irish writers.
ROBERT L. KING has published on drama in various magazines as well as The New York Times.
MICHAEL LASER has had stories published in various literary magazines and is now working on a novel.
The Flying Dutchman, by WALTER MCDONALD, won the University of Cincinnati’s George Elliston Poetry Prize and the latest collection of his work has just been published by the Ohio State University Press.
JOYCE CAROL OATES‘ last novel was Mary a: A Life. Dutton will publish a collection of her short stories in September to be called Raven’s Wing.
AISHAH RAHMAN has received a New York Foundation Playwriting Fellowship for 1988. The play reprinted in this issue is a work in progress.
ROGER SALE, “having taught, and reviewed, fiction for many years, is himself committing a novel.”
RICHARD TROUSDELL teaches directing in the Department of Theater at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he is also dramaturg for “Theater in the Works”; his current research concerns how leading directors prepare productions.
BRUCE WETTEROTH‘s Words Like These was published by the Ohio Review Press in 1986.
MARTHA ZWEIG, who serves as an advocate for the Area Agency on the Aging and as office co-ordinator for local abused women’s organizations in Vermont, has had poetry published in various journals and collections.
Aishah Rahman’s prize-winning play, The Mojo and the Sayso, is reprinted in this issue in correct form. In our previous issue (Vol. 28, no. 4), some of the dialogue was not printed in proper sequence.