Volume 36, Issue 3
FRONT COVER: Rolf Zimmermann
A JEWISH CHILD
PAINTING
Table of Contents
In Memory: Andrew Salkey (1928-1995)
Like Karlena, Like Us; A House of Exile, Poetry by Andrew Salkey
Borrowed Time, Poetry by Ingeborg Bachman, Translated by Peter Filkins
Border Country, Non-Fiction by Alicia Nitecki
The Flaw in the Flue, Poetry by Sue Owen
Nonessential People, Non-Fiction by Paula Horowitz
Black Ice, Poetry by Nancy Sherman
Rolf Zimmerman’s Poland Painting, Non-Fiction by Peter Chametzky, with commentary by Manfred Messerschmidt and the artist. Ten paintings and ten drawings.
Tel Aviv, Poetry by Karen Alkalay-Gut
Turn of the Century; As in a Rear-View Mirror, Poetry by Oksana Zabuzhko, Translated by Lisa Sapinkopf and the author
Exorcising Vichy: The Trial of Paul Touvier for Crimes Against Humanity, Non-Fiction by Sarah Chayes
A Girl with a Knife, Poetry by Martha Stainsby
Objects in Mirror are Closer Than They Appear, Fiction by Janet Tashjian
Interview with Toni Morrison, Non-Fiction by Cecil Brown
The Lull Between Spokes,Poetry by Amy Dryansky
Postcolonialism in North America: Imaginative Colonization in Henry David Thoreau’s A Yankee in Canada and Jacques Poulin’s Volkswagen Blues, Non-Fiction by Adam Paul Weisman
Contributors
Karen Alkalay-Gut teaches Victorian and Contemporary poetry at Tel Aviv Univ. and chairs the Israel Assoc, of Writers in English. Three collections of her work appeared in 1994.
Ingeborg Bachmann, who was born in Austria in 1926 and died in Rome in 1973, published stories, radio plays, and a novel. She received numerous prizes, including the Berlin Critics Award and the Austrian State Prize for Literature.
Cecil Brown has published two books, Coming Up Down Home and Days Without Weather.
Peter Chametzky, Assistant Prof, of Art History at Adelphi University, is the author of a forthcoming monograph on Willi Baumeister.
A journalist, Sarah Chayes lives and works in Paris.
Amy Dryanski has published poems in a number of journals, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Peter Filkins, who teaches at Simon’s Rock, has recently published a translation of Ingeborg Bachmann’s complete poems, Songs in Flight; his poems, reviews, and translations have appeared in many journals including The American Scholar and Partisan Review.
Born and educated in The Netherlands, Paula Horowitz came to this country in 1958.
Prof. Doctor Manfred Messerschmidt is head of the Militargeschichtliches Forschung samt (Research Institute for Military History) in Freiburg.
The essay in this issue by Alicia Nitecki, and an earlier one in MR, “Recovered Land,” will be included in a collection to be published this year by Univ. of Massachusetts Press.
Sue Owen teaches poetry writing at Louisiana State Univ.; one of her published collections, The Book of Winter, won the Ohio State Univ. Press Award in Poetry.
Lisa Sapinkopf has won numerous awards and grants for her translations. She has co-edited Clay and Star–Contemporary Bulgarian Poets, and her work has appeared in many journals.
Nancy Sherman‘s poems and essays have appeared in Seneca Review, Ploughshares, and other magazines.
A teacher and psychotherapist who now lives in Canada, Martha Stainsby has published work in a variety of journals.
Janet Tashjian, who recently completed an MFA at Emerson College, is at work on a mystery novel.
Adam Paul Weisman, who is finishing his dissertation at Harvard, has been a teaching fellow there.
Oksana Zabuzhko, one of the leading Ukrainian writers, has published three volumes of poetry and translated Sylvia Plath’s poems into Ukrainian; she has been a visiting poet in this country, where her work has appeared in Partisan Review, Harvard Review, and other journals.
Rolf Zimmermann teaches at the Art School in Karlsruhe, where he lives.