Volume 33, Issue 1
FRONT COVER: Thomas Eakins
Walt Whitman
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Table of Contents
Eligible to Burst Forth: Whitman and the Art of Reticence; If Everything Is a Subject; The Art of Penmanship, Non-Fiction by Nancy Sherman
Autobiographical Deaths, Non-Fiction by Nancy K. Miller
Women’s Labors, Poetry by Lee Upton
Orchids on a Rope, Fiction by Marcia Maher Conta
A Celebration of Whitman, edited by Michael Pettit; A.R. Ammons, Marvin Bell, Kurt Brown, Gary Gildner, Allen Ginsberg, Debora Greger, Donald Hall, Garrett Hongo, Paul Jenkins, Yusef Komunyakaa, Maxine Kumin, Thomas Lux, William Matthews, Christopher Merrill, Mary Oliver, Marge Piercy, Stanley Plumly, David St. John, Paul Zimmer
The Golden World: Report from Siberia, Non-Fiction by George Gessert
Low Planes, Poetry by Barbara Ras
Double Exposures, Poetry by Dabney Sturat
Allegiances, Poetry by Christopher Bursk
Accidents Will Happen, Poetry by Rima King
WITNESS: A Memory of Two Fathers, Non-Fiction by Shaun O’Connell
Syllable; Vice Versa, Poetry by Edward Kleinschmidt
Contributors
A. R. Ammons has most recently published Selected Poems and Sumerian Vistas (Norton).
Marvin Bell‘s New & Selected Poems was published by Atheneum.
Kurt Brown is Director of the Aspen Writers’ Conference.
Author of four books, Christopher Bursk has received both Guggenheim and NEA fellowships.
Marcia Maher Conta‘s fiction has appeared in various journals; she has also published five children’s books.
An artist whose work has been widely exhibited in this country and Canada, George Gessert has also published essays in Northwest Review, Leonardo and other publications.
Gary Gildner‘s newest book is The Warsaw Sparks (Iowa).
Allen Ginsberg published his Collected Poems (Harper & Collins) in 1988.
Princeton has published Debora Greger‘s most recent book, The 1002nd Night.
Donald Hall‘s Older New Poems appeared in 1990 (Ticknor & Fields).
Garrett Hongo‘s last book was The River of Heaven (Knopf).
Paul Jenkins has published Forget the Sky (L’Epervier).
Rima King‘s work has appeared in Transatlantic Review and other publications; she died in 1990 at the age of 47.
Edward Kleinschmidt, whose collection of poems First Language received the Juniper Prize in 1990, has published work in numerous magazines including The New Yorker, APR and New England Review.
Yusef Komunyakaa most recently published Dien Cai Dau (Wesleyan).
Looking for Luck (Norton) is Maxine Kumin‘s newest book.
In 1990 Thomas Lux published The Drowned River (Houghton Mifflin).
William Matthews most recently published Blues If You Want (Houghton Mifflin).
Christopher Merrill‘s books are Workbook and Fevers & Tides.
Nancy K. Miller is Distinguished Professor of English at Lehman College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her most recent book is Getting Personal: Feminist Occasions and Other Autobiographical Acts.
Shaun O’Connell‘s Imagining Boston was published by Beacon Press in 1990; a second volume, Imagining New York, will also be published by Beacon.
Mary Oliver‘s new book is House of Light (Beacon).
Cardinal Points by Michael Pettit appeared in 1988 (Iowa).
Marge Piercy‘s recent Available Light was published by Knopf.
Stanley Plumly‘s most recent title is Boy on the Step (Ecco).
Managing Editor of North Point Press until its recent closing, Barbara Ras is now working on an anthology of Costa Rican literature.
David St. John has published No Heaven (Houghton Mifflin) and other books.
Nancy Sherman, who won the 1990 Grolier Poetry Prize, has published poems in various journals including Ploughshares and Berkeley Poetry Review.
Dabney Stuart‘s most recent volume of poems, Narcissus Dreaming, was published by LSU Press in 1990. A collection of his stories, Sweet Lucy Wine, is scheduled for Spring 1992.
Lee Upton‘s collection of poems, No Mercy, was a winner in the National Poetry Series; her critical study, Jean Garrigue: A Poetics of Plenitude, was published in 1991 by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press.
Paul Zimmer‘s newest book is The Great Bird of Love (Illinois).