Volume 29, Issue 3
FRONT COVER: Roy DeCarava
Man With Clasped Hands, 1950
Photograph
Table of Contents
Appropriating Tet, Non-Fiction by Richard Falk
Starlight Haven; Mean Confession, Poetry by Shirley Geok-lin Kim
Witness: “We’re Not the Good Guys Anymore,” Non-Fiction by Oliver Stone
My Eyes; My Penis; My Soul, Poetry by Rudy Kikel
Symbolic Politics: Perceptions of the Early Rastafari Movement, Non-Fiction by Michael Hoenisch
Mumbo Jumbo, Poetry by Edward Kleinschmidt
Battling Siki: The Boxer as Natural Man, Non-Fiction by Gerald Early
As a Young Youth; At Gitcheegoomee, Cake for One, Poetry by Debra Hines
Photographs, by Roy DeCarava, with a note by Sherry Turner DeCarava
The Guest, Fiction by Ellen Herman
The Tidings Brough to Sylvie, Fiction by David Mairowitz
Lost Wax, Poetry by Karl Kirchway
Against the Current: A Conversation with Anita Desai, Non-Fiction by Corinne Bliss
The Glass House, Poetry by Renate Wood
Brian Moore’s Ireland: A World Well Lost, Non-Fiction by Shaun O’Connell
Donor Mentality, Poetry by Frances Driscoll
Glenn Gould as a Radio Composer, Non-Fiction by Richard Kostelanetz
The Weight, Poetry by Stephen Philbrick
Contributors
CORINNE BLISS is the author of The Same River Twice, a novel, and Daffodils or the Death of Love, a collection of short stories.
SHERRY TURNER DECARAVA, an art historian who specializes in pre-Columbian Afro-American art, teaches at Hunter College.
Her husband, ROY DECARAVA, the photographer, the first Black artist to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1952, collaborated in 1955 with Langston Hughes on The Sweet Flypaper of Life.
ANITA DESAI‘s most recent novel, Baumgartner’s Bombay, will be published by Knopf in March.
Talk to Me, FRANCES DRISCOLL‘s chapbook, was published by Black River Press.
An assistant professor of English and African and Afro-American Studies at Washington University, GERALD EARLY is completing a book of essays on boxing entitled The Culture of Bruising.
RICHARD A. FALK is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of International Law and Practice, Professor of Politics and International Affairs, and Faculty Associate of the Center of International Studies at Princeton University.
ELLEN HERMAN lives in Los Angeles where she writes scripts for interactive videodisc as well as fiction.
DEBRA HINES has published poems in The North American Review, Carolina Quarterly, and other literary journals.
A Professor of American Literature at the John F. Kennedy Institute in Berlin, MICHAEL E. HOENISCH writes on American literary figures and cultural policy.
RUDY KIKEL is the Arts & Entertainment Editor as well as Poetry Editor for Bay Windows; his latest collection of poems is Lasting Relations, published by Sea Horse Press.
KARL KIRCHWEY is currently Director of the Poetry Center of the 92nd Street YM-YWHA.
While teaching at Santa Clara University, EDWARD KLEINSCHMIDT has published poems in various magazines as well as a collection, Magnetism.
RICHARD KOSTELANETZ is a writer/composer living in New York City; a collection of his essays on music, On Innovative Music(ian)s, will appear this year.
SHIRLEY GEOK-LIN LIM has published several collections of poetry, a book of short stories, and co-edited an anthology of the work of Asian-American women.
DAVID ZANE MAIROWITZ has lived in Europe for the past twenty years where he has written fiction, cultural history and radio plays for the BBC.
SHAUN O’CONNELL is writing a book, Boston and Other Imaginary Places.
STEPHEN PHILBRICK‘s book of poems, No Goodbye, was published by the Smith/Horizon Press.
OLIVER STONE, the director of Platoon, among other films, delivered the address published here before the National Press Club.
RENATE WOOD, a native of Berlin, teaches at the University of Colorado Continuing Education Division; she has published poems in a number of journals, as well as a collection, Points of Entry, and has been a fellow at Yaddo.