Volume 39, Issue 4
FRONT COVER: Dale Schläppi
A digitized drawing executed by ink plotter,
based on a blood smear image of sickle cells
at 800 magnification and converted to a vector
format at 1000 magnification.
Table of Contents
George Herbert, Poetry by Frank X. Gaspar
The Burden of Sickle Cells, Non-Fiction by Spencer Nadler
Music, She Insists; The Housepainter Before Me; Between a Poem and a Sentence, Poetry by Carol Potter
Terminal Oriente: Beginning with a Line by César Vallejo, Poetry by Jasper Bernes
My Tie Has Been Loosened by Someone, Fiction by Neal Durando
Insect Study; The Horse In the Linoleum, Poetry by Lia Purpura
With Jane and Without: An Interview with Donald Hall, Non-Fiction by Jeffrey S. Cramer
Hair, Poetry by Kelley Le Fave
Drohobycz, Drohobycz, Non-Fiction by Henry Grynberg, Translated from the Polish by Alicia Niteck
Five Funerals, Poetry by Nathaniel Bellows
Falling Off Whispering Rock, Fiction by Brennen Wysong
Boy In a Ball; Israeli Conflict, Poetry by Terese Svoboda
Where Two Rivers Meet, Fiction by Craig Danner
Pedagogy, Poetry by Kurt Heinzelman
In the Heyday of the Studio Musician, Thad Jones and Mel Lewis Start a Big Band at the Village Vanguard, Non-Fiction by Leslie Gourse
Contributors
Poems by Nathaniel Bellows have appeared in Ploughshares, The Paris Review and other journals; he lives and works in New York City.
Jasper Bernes was born near Los Angeles and is a candidate for an MFA in Creative Writing at Cornell.
Jeffrey S. Cramer is editor of Thoreau on Freedom and Slavery (Houghton-Mifflin) forthcoming in 1999; he lives north of Boston and his essays and poetry have appeared in The Formalist, Princeton Arts Review and other journals.
A graduate of The Evergreen State College, Craig Danner is a native Oregonian.
Neal Durando lives in St. Louis, Missouri.
Frank X. Gaspar‘s poetry appears in The Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner and other journals. His novel, Leaving Pico, is forthcoming (Hardscrabble Books).
Leslie Gourse is the author of ”Straight, No Chaser: The Life and Times of Thelonious Monk” and a forthcoming biography of Wynton Marsalis.
Born in Warsaw, Henryk Grynberg received the 1997 Jan Karski Award; recent publications include The Victory and Children of Zion (Northwestern University Press).
Kurt Heinzelman recently taught at the Institut du Monde Anglophone at La Sorbonne Nouvelle.
Poems by Kelly le Fave have appeared in Salt Hill Journal, Southwestern Review and others; she teaches at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
A surgical pathologist in Palos Verdes, CA, Spencer Nadler‘s work has appeared in Harper’s, Reader’s Digest and others.
Essays by Alicia Nitecki have appeared previously in MR and a collection of her essays is published by University of Massachusetts Press.
Poet Carol Potter has published two collections: Before We Were Born (1990) and Upside Down in the Dark (Alice James Books).
A collection of Lia Purpura‘s translations is forthcoming in Fall, 1998 (Farleigh Dickinson University Press). A recipient of the Randall Jarrell Prize, her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, The Antioch Review and others.
Terese Svoboda teaches at San Francisco State. Her most recent poetry collection is Mere Mortals (University of Georgia Press).
A lecturer and associate editor at Epoch Magazine at Cornell, Brennen Wysong‘s fiction has appeared in Story, Glimmer Train Stories, Indiana Review and other journals.