Volume 33, Issue 2
FRONT COVER: Gabriel Amadeus Cooney
WEST WHATELY FARM KITCHEN, 1968
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Table of Contents
Passage, Non-Fiction by A.V. Christie
From the Memoirs of Rabbi Eliezer Ben Hyrcanus, Poetry by David Cooper
Letter to Wang Wei, Envoy to the Barbarian Pass, Poetry by Dennis Finnell
The Soul of Oliver Sacks, Non-Fiction by Ella Kuznetz
The Air They Breathe; To My Sins, Poetry by Nancy White
Spitting Image, Fiction by Joshua Henkin
Wilma’s House Burns Down, Poetry by John Allman
Itinerary, Poetry by Doug Anderson
In My Own Sweet Time, from an autobiography by Blanche Cooney
The Speed of the Drift, VI, VIII, IX, Poetry by Susan Snively
Object of Uncommon Interest: Reflections on Japan and “The Japanese”, Non-Fiction by Scott L. Montgomery
My Dreams are So Many Sheep, Poetry by Robin Mary Boswell
WITNESS: Shoah’s Children: Seeing Through Anger, Non-Fiction by Herbert Marder
Edinburgh and the Idea of a Festival, Non-Fiction by Robert L. King
Contributors
John Allman‘s poems have appeared most recently in The Antioch Review, Poetry Northwest, and The Quarterly. Winner of the 1991 Writers Exchange (sponsored by Poets & Writers, Inc.).
Doug Anderson has recently published a chapbook, Bamboo Bridge.
Robin Boswell is working on a new book of poems, Winter Ballet. A. V. Christie‘s work has appeared in The Plum Review, Ariel, Allegheny Review and other journals.
Sections of Blanche Cooney‘s autobiography have appeared in England in Margin, and in the New England Monthly and Anais; the complete work will be published by Ohio University/Swallow Press.
David Cooper, who has recently earned an MA in creative writing at The City College of CUNY, has published work in Mudfish, Painted Bride, The New Zealand Jewish Chronicle and other magazines.
Dennis Finnell, whose collection Red Cottage was a Juniper Prize publication by the University of Massachusetts Press in 1991, has just received an award from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation.
Joshua Henkin is a graduate student in creative writing at the University of Michigan and third-prize winner in the 1992 Playboy College Fiction Contest. “Spitting Image” is part of a collection that won the 1992 Hopwood Award in Major Short Fiction.
Robert L. King is contributing editor to, and regular drama critic for, The North American Review.
Ella Kusnetz is a free-lance editor and a student in the Psychoanalytic Studies Program, University of Massachusetts.
Herbert Marder, who teaches English at the University of Illinois, is writing a biography, Farewell to the Victorians: Virginia Woolf’s Last Years. His essay, “The Biographer and the Angel,” will be published in The American Scholar.
Scott L. Montgomery, who is currently working as a researcher/writer in geology and as a translator from the Japanese, has published essays on science, literature, and American culture in a variety of journals.
Susan Snively, Writing Counselor and Associate Dean of Students at Amherst College, has published two collections, From This Distance (Alice James Press, 1981) and Voices in the House (University of Alabama Press, 1988).
Nancy White has a fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown this year. Her work has appeared in a number of quarterlies including Ploughshares, New England Review and Feminist Studies.