Volume 30, Issue 1
FRONT COVER: Augustus Saint-Gaudens
The Shaw Memorial, detail
Table of Contents
In a Chinese Antique Shop; Sifting Through; It’s Obvious, Poetry by Abraham Sutzkever, Translated from the Yiddish and Hebrew by Ruth Whitman
Walk-Up Off Sixth Avenue; Cloud Rises Seven Miles from Observers, Poetry by James Haug
The Climb at Hound Tor, Poetry by Judith Neeld
Street, Poetry by Tam Lin Neville
The Balloon, Poetry by Susan Snively
The Sculptural World of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Non-Fiction by Sidney Kaplan, with illustrations by Augustus Saint-Gaudens
What I Wanted Most of All, Fiction by Daniel Hayes
America Loves Carney, Poetry by Maureen Seaton
White Bread and Cake; Frog Prince, Poetry by Cornelia Hoogland
Accident, Fiction by Lino Leitāo
Fleur-de-Lys; Virgin Oil, Poetry by Robert Hill Long
Visiting Rights, Poetry by Pauline Uchmanowicz
Spotlight/Searchlight, Poetry by Tilottama Rajan
ARTS IN REVIEW:
The Year in Fiction, 1988, Non-Fiction by Edith Milton
Recent Drama, 1988, Non-Fiction by Robert King
The Year in Poetry, 1988, Non-Fiction by Kurt Heinzelman
Contributors
JAMES HAUG‘s collection of poems, The Stolen Car, will be published this year by the University of Massachusetts Press.
Stories by DANIEL HAYES have been published in Epoch, Western Humanities Review and other journals.
KURT HEINZELMAN, a poet himself, is the author of several books of essays on literature and teaches at the University of Texas, Austin.
While teaching at Mt. Royal College in Calgary, CORNELIA HOOGLAND is preparing her first collection of poems, The Wire-Thin Bride.
SIDNEY KAPLAN is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Massachusetts and a founding editor of MR. He and Emma Nogrady Kaplan are the co-authors of The Black Presence in the Era of the American Revolution, to be published by the University of Massachusetts Press this summer.
ROBERT L. KING contributes essays and reviews of drama to various magazines as well as The New York Times.
UNO LEITĀO‘s published work includes a collection of short stories, a novel and, most recently, Rosalein: A Goan Woman’s Story.
ROBERT HILL LONG received an NEA grant last year; his prose and poems have appeared in various journals including Kenyon Review, Virginia Quarterly and Poetry East.
EDITH MILTON has written reviews and essays for New Republic, New York Times Book Review and Yale Review, et al., and her stories have been twice included in Best American Short Stories.
JUDITH NEELD, editor of Stone Country, has recently published a collection of poems, Naming the Island (Thorn Tree Press, 1988).
TAM LIN NEVILLE has published poems in American Poetry Review, Mademoiselle, and other magazines, and is at work on a book-length manuscript.
A Canadian citizen, TILOTTAMA RAJAN is Romnes Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the author of books of poetry and criticism.
A fellow of Ucross Foundation, Wyoming, MAUREEN SEATON has published poems in Iowa Review, Poetry Northwest, et al.
SUSAN SNIVELY teaches at Amherst and Smith colleges. Her second book of poems, Voices in the House, was published by University of Alabama Press (1988).
ABRAHAM SUTZKEVER, who lives in Israel, is the greatest living Yiddish poet.
PAULINE UCHMANOWICZ‘s poems have appeared in New American Writing, Indiana Review and numerous other journals; she currently teaches English at Wheaton College and Southeastern Massachusetts University.
RUTH WHITMAN has published six books of poems, most recently The Testing of Hanna Senesh (Wayne State Univ. Press, 1968), and three books of translation from modern Yiddish poetry, including The Fiddle Rose: Selected Poems of Abraham Sutzkever, to be published this year.