Volume 3, Issue 2
FRONT COVER: Ben Shahn
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS
DRAWING
Table of Contents
“…and so, my mother,” Memoir by Edward Dahlberg
Escapist-Never, Poetry by Robert Frost
Pudd’nhead Wilson and After, Non-Fiction by Henry Nash Smith
Autumn Day, Poetry by Rolfe Humphries, Translated by Rainer Maria Rilke
Mythological Figures; Dialogue, Poetry by William Dickey
Out for a Night; Chrysalis, Poetry by David Wagoner
The Sadness of Philip Roth: an Interim Report, Non-Fiction by Joseph C. Landis
Das Schloss; Festspielhaus, Poetry by Lincoln Kirstein
A GATHERING FOR WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS:
The High Bridge above the Tagus River at Toledo; The Birth; Three Nahuatl Poems; A Formal Design, Poetry by William Carlos Williams
Two Cities: Paris and Paterson, Non-Fiction by John C. Thirlwall
Four Unpublished Letters by William Carlos Williams
A Visit to WCW: September, 1958, Non-Fiction by Gael Turnbull
I See, Poetry by David Leviten
An Old Note on WCW, Non-Fiction by Louis Zukofsky
A Complaint of Mutability, Poetry by Carlos Baker
William Carlos Williams: Idiom and Structure, Non-Fiction by Mary Ellen Solt
Self-Portrait (oil), by William Carlos Williams
Photographs by Gosta Peterson and Selda Rodman
The Farmers’ Daughters: A True Story About People, Non-Fiction by Cid Corman
Min Schleppner, Poetry by William Carlos Williams
“Reitschule”: a Chapter from WCW’s A Voyage to Pagany (1928), Fiction by William Carlos Williams
The Drama of Utterance, Non-Fiction by Hugh Kenner
In Search of the Theatre, Non-Fiction by Clinton J. Atkinson
“Let’s to Music, Hubert!”: An Impertinent Piece, Non-Fiction by Raymond A. Kennedy
An Occasion for Tremendous Music, Non-Fiction by H. E. F. Donohue
Song for Ishtar, Poetry by Denise Levertov
This is the clearing I once spoke of, Poetry by LeRoi Jones
Out of Their Butchered Hearts, Poetry by Gilbert Sorrentino
The Undertaking in New Jersey, Poetry by George Oppen
Polanyi’s Theory of Personal Knowledge: a Gestalt Philosophy, Non-Fiction by William T. Scott
José Guadalupe Posada:
A Magisterial Utilization of Clean Bones, Non-Fiction by Diego Rivera; 21 reproductions
The Stimulus of Posada, Non-Fiction by José Clemente Orozco, Translated by Sidney F. Wexler
Printmaker to the Mexican People, Non-Fiction by Jean Charlot
Posada’s Life and Times, Non-Fiction by Fernando Gamboa
Four Poets of Spain, Non-Fiction by Jose Yglesias
Film and Dance: Three Books on the Film, Non-Fiction by John Houseman; On the Dance: Conversation with Edward Villella, Non-Fiction by Seymour Rudin
IN REVIEW:
Intellectuals as Heroes in the French Novel, Non-Fiction by George Kateb
The Unargued Case of Existentialism, Non-Fiction by Harry S. Kariel
Barbarians in Greek Tragedy, Non-Fiction by Viktor Pöschl, translation by Eva Schiffer
The Complex Sanity of Ulysses, Non-Fiction by William H. Pritchard
Contributors
Jean Chariot, well-known painter and art historian, is a professor at the University of Hawaii.
Edward Dahlberg was recently awarded a grant by the National Institute of Arts and Letters “for unusual probity, erudition, and wit”; he is completing the first volume of his autobiography, Because I Was Flesh, for publication later this year by New Directions, publishers of his Can These Bones Live, The Flea of Sodom, and The Sorrows of Priapus.
William Dickey, a Yale Younger Poet in 1959, has completed his second volume of poems and will be teaching at San Francisco State College in the fall.
Robert Frost‘s latest volume will soon be published by Holt.
Fernando Gamboa, painter, teacher and critic, is a resident of Mexico City.
John Hollander, author of The Untuning of the Sky (Princeton University Press, 1961), teaches English at Yale.
John Houseman, at present an executive producer at M.G.M., was the creator of several memorable projects for the Federal Theatre, a founder of the Mercury Theatre, and Artistic Director of the American Shakespeare Festival, 1956-59.
Rolfe Humphries has recently published a volume of verse, Green Armor on Green Ground, and one of translations, Satires of Juvenal.
LeRoi Jones, editor of Yugen, is the author of verse appearing in Poetry, Evergreen Review, and The Nation.
Henry S. Kariel teaches political science at Bennington College; he is the author of The Decline of American Pluralism (Stanford, 1961).
George Kateb teaches in the Department of Political Science at Amherst College.
Lincoln Kirstein, Director of the New York City Ballet Company, is the author of Dance: a Short History of Theatrical Dancing as well as of monographs on Elie Nadelman, Gaston Lachaise, Walker Evans, and William Rimmer.
G. Stanley Koehler is one of MR‘s poetry editors.
Joseph C. Landis teaches courses in the novel and in Yiddish literature at Queens College, New York.
Denise Levertov has published five books of poems, of which the latest is The Jacob’s Ladder (New Directions, 1961).
George Oppen, whose book, Discrete Series, was published in 1933 with an introduction by Ezra Pound, will publish in September a new collection of verse, The Materials (New Directions?San Francisco Review).
The first complete translation of José Clemente Orozcoy’s autobiography will be published this spring by the University of Texas Press.
Viktor Pöschl is Professor of Classics at the University of Heidelberg.
William H. Pritchard teaches English at Amherst College.
Seymour Rudin teaches at the University of Massachusetts.
William T. Scott spent a recent sabbatical year at Yale University as Research Fellow both in the Divinity School and in the Department of Physics; he is Professor of Physics at the University of Nevada.
Eva Schiffer is in the Department of German, University of Massachusetts.
Henry Nash Smith, author of Virgin Land: the American West as Symbol and Myth, is Professor of English, University of California at Berkeley, and Literary Editor of the Mark Twain Estate.
Gilbert Sorrentino has published a book of poems, The Darkness Surrounds Us (Jargon Books, 1961).
David Wagoner has published three novels and two volumes of verse; a third is due later this year from the Indiana University Press.
Sidney F. Wexler teaches Spanish at the University of Massachusetts.
Jose Yglesias is the translator of two novels published this winter: Island of Women by Juan Goytisolo (Knopf) and Villa Milo by Xavier Domingo (Braziller).