Volume 34, Issue 4
FRONT COVER:
The Evergreens: Children’s Shoes
“The feet of people walking home
With gayer sandals go–” (ED, #7)
Table of Contents
Lost in Translation, Non-Fiction by Ilan Stavans
Black Spruce, Poetry by Astrid Hjertenæs Anderson, Translated by Aina Gerner-Mathisen and Suzanne Bachner
With the Tongues of Angels, Poetry by Liz Waldner
O Nosso Amor, Fiction by Michael Laser
My Tragic Opera, Poetry by Evelyn Lau
Critical Revisionism and the Return to Agency, Non-Fiction by Joanne Jacobson
The Tree, Poetry by J.P. White
Christmas 1989, Non-Fiction by Blanche Cooney
Acmeist, Poetry by Dennis Finnell
The Evergreeens: The Other Dickinson House, Non-Fiction by Masako Takeda and Gregory Farmer; four photographs by Jerome Leibling
Rise, Fiction by Jennifer C. Cornell
From Bakersfield, Poetry by Carlen Arnett
Poem; Survivors, Poetry by Timothy Liu
WITNESS: Mother and Child Re-Union, Non-Fiction by Robert Kelsey
Prose #2, Poetry by Elisabeth A. Frost
Hook; Quetzalcoatl, Poetry by Judith Berke
Me, Poetry by Edward Baratta
On Names in James Aloysius Augustine Joyce and Samuel Barclay Beckett, Non-Fiction by Sidney Feshbach
All Wild Animals Were Once Called Deer, Poetry by Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Teaching Composition, Poetry by L.L. Harper
Nobody’s Wife, Fiction by Portia Bohn
The Spiral, Poetry by Laura Glenn
Towards the End of November; Befana (January 6), Poetry by Melinda Kennedy
Contributors
Astrid Hjertenæs Andersen (1915-1985), distinguished Norwegian poet whose work has not previously appeared in English, published twelve volumes of poetry and a novel; she received the Norwegian Critic’s Prize for Breakfast in the Green.
Carlen Arnett lives and works in New England.
Suzanne Bachner and Aina Gerner-Mathisen, graduates of Oberlin College, have translated a book of poems by Andersen and are working on translations of the Norwegian poet Rolf Jacobsen.
Edward Baratta, who has worked for the last eight years with the homeless in Boston and Cambridge, has most recently published poems in Artful Dodge, Harvard Review, and the Literary Review. Judith Berke has published a book of poems. The poems in this issue are from her manuscript Not Eden.
Stories by Portia Bohn have appeared in Carolina Quarterly and Short Story International; a play was produced at Trinity Square Repertory in Providence.
Blanche Cooney‘s essays have appeared in Margin (UK), the New England Monthly, Anais, and MR.
Jennifer C Cornell‘s story “Inheritance” was the 1992 INTRO Award Winner.
Gregory Farmer is Project Manager for the Martha Dickinson Bianchi Trust in Amherst.
Sidney Feshbach is president of the James Joyce Society and teaches at CCNY. He has published work on Joyce, Stevens, Beckett and other writers.
Dennis Finnell received the Juniper Prize in 1990 for his collection Red Cottage.
Elisabeth A. Frost, who is completing a Ph.D. in English at UCLA, has published in Denver Quarterly, Texas Review, and other literary quarterlies.
Laura Glenn is a freelance editor in Ithaca, NY; her poems have appeared in Antioch Review, Chelsea, The Greenfield Review, and other journals.
L. L. Harper‘s work has appeared in The Georgia Review, Kansas Quarterly, and Hawaii Review.
Joanne Jacobson, who teaches at Yeshiva Univ., has published reviews and articles, as well as a book, Authority and Alliance in the Letters of Henry Adams (Univ. of Wisconsin Press).
Brigit Pegeen Kelly‘s first book, To the Place of Trumpets, was published by Yale Univ. Press.
Robert Kelsey, who is currently serving a sentence in Mid-State Correctional Facility in New York state, has published work in The Virginia Quarterly and The Sun.
Melinda Kennedy, a translator and teacher of English and Comparative Literature until her retirement, is currently co-editor of Metamorphoses, a journal of translation of the Five Colleges.
Michael Laser, currently writing a novel, has published stories in a number of magazines and journals.
Evelyn Lau has published an autobiography, Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid, two collections of poems, and a collection of short stories, Fresh Girls.
Jerome Liebling, distinguished photographer, is preparing a retrospective of his work, to be shown in London and Minneapolis.
Timothy Liu‘s book of poems, Vox Angelica, has received the 1992 Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. Mexican novelist and critic
Ilan Stavans, who presently teaches at Amherst College, has published several books; The Hispanic Condition: Reflections on Culture and Identity in the Americas will appear in Spring 1994.
Masako Takeda has edited and translated the letters and poems of Emily Dickinson. She teaches at Osaka Shoin Women’s College.
Liz Waldner, who teaches at Tufts Univ., has published work in Shenandoah, New American Writing and other journals.
Work by J. P. White is forthcoming or recently published in The Gettysburg Review, Sewanee Review and many other magazines.