Volume 32, Issue 2
FRONT COVER:
Gordon Heath as Othello, London, 1955
Table of Contents
Ft. Despair, Fiction by Antonya Nelson
Life in the Orphanage, Poetry by Elizabeth Kirschner
The Berlin Wall, 1966; The Luxor Baths, Poetry by Marianne Boruch
“I Have a Philosophy, You Have an Ideology”: Is Social Criticism Possible?, Non-Fiction by Philip Green
In the Town of Endless Reduction, Poetry by James Haug
The Guardian Angel; Fragments From Lost Days, Poetry by R.M. Rilke, Translated by Edward Snow
The Coat, Poetry by Betsy Sholl
Deep Are the Roots: Memoirs of a Black Expatriate, Non-Fiction by Gordon Heath, with a Foreword by Doris Abramson and a Note by Richard Trousdell
After the Blues; Jealousy and The Things You Are Not, Poetry by Debra Gregerman
Into the World, Poetry by Gene Zeiger
Postmodernism, Native American Literature and the Real: The Silko-Erdrich Controversy, Non-Fiction by Susan Pérez Castillo
Life of a Girl, Poetry by Nancy White
Worlds Not Our Own: Centrifugal and Centripital Forces in the Humanities, Non-Fiction by Douglas Greenberg
Poem at Forty-Five, Poetry by Ingrid Wendt
Film School, Poetry by Michael Atkinson
Slow Runner, Poetry by Marjorie Keyishian
WITNESS: Hometown, Non-Fiction by Sharon O’Connell
Contributors
Michael Atkinson has published poems in Prairie Schooner, The Seneca Review, and numerous other journals.
Marianne Boruch teaches in the graduate writing program and is Poet in Residence at Purdue Univ.; her most recent collection, Descendant, was published by Wesleyan Univ. Press.
Susan Pérez Castillo lives and teaches in Portugal at Oporto University.
Philip Green is Sophia Smith Professor of Government at Smith College.
Vice President of the American Council of Learned Societies and Visiting Professor of History at Rutgers, Douglas Greenberg has published many articles and reviews as well as Crime and Law Enforcement in the Colony of New York and The American People: A History.
Poems by Debra Gregerman have appeared in The Antioch Review, North American Review and other magazines.
A collection of poems by James Haug, The Stolen Car, was published last year by Univ. of Massachusetts Press.
Gordon Heath‘s complete autobiography, from which excerpts appear in this issue of MR, will be published next spring by Univ. of Massachusetts Press.
Marjorie Keyishian, who teaches at Fairleigh Dickinson Univ., has published poetry and short stories in a number of journals.
Elizabeth Kirschner‘s first book of poems, Twenty Colors, is forthcoming from Carnegie Mellon Univ.Press.
Antonya Nelson‘s first collection of stories, The Expendables, won the Flannery O’Connor Award for short fiction; a new collection, In the Land of Men, will soon be published by Wm. Morrow.
Sharon O’Connell works as a business writer and teacher, and has taught in New York City College as well as high school and prison systems.
Previously untranslated into English, the two poems appearing in this issue of MR by Rainier Maria Rilke will be included in Edward Snow‘s translation of The Book of Images, due out this summer from North Point Press. While teaching at the Univ. of Southern Maine,
Betsy Sholl has completed an MFA at Vermont College; her most recent collection, Rooms Overhead, was published by Alice James Books.
Ingrid Wendt received the Oregon Book Award in 1988 for Singing the Mozart Requiem; her work appears regularly in a number of literary journals.
Nancy White‘s poems have appeared in journals from Exquisite Corpse to New England Review, and work is forthcoming in Feminist Studies and Ploughshares.
Gene Zeiger works as a crisis clinician in a community mental health center and leads creative writing work shops. Her collection of poems, Sudden Dancing, was published in 1988.