Volume 4, Issue 4
FRONT COVER: Walker Evans
BROOKLYN BRIDGE
from the Black Sun Press edition of Hart Crane’s The Bridge
Table of Contents
American Innocence Reconsidered, Non-Fiction by Gaylord C. LeRoy
This Combination, Poetry by Rev. Leonard McCarthy S.J.
Accident, Poetry by Thomas Whitbread
Lilies, Poetry by W. R. Moses
The Power, Fiction by Edith Konecky
Schamyl in Corsica, Poetry by William Ferguson
Trust; Greed; Clear Day, Poetry by Josephine Miles
Teeter-Totter, Poetry by Helen Winter
Faulkner’s Ambiguous Negro, Non-Fiction by Melvin Seiden
Death of a Possum, Poetry by Marvin Solomon
12:35 express, Poetry by Aaron Kramer
The Palace, Poetry by George Hitchcock
The Hospital, Fiction by R. C. Day
Works in Four Media; twelve reproductions and an essay by Robert Birmelin
Fire, Poetry by George Cuomo
Fragment of a Journey, Poetry by Sid Gershgoren
Brooklyn Bridge and the Mastery of Nature, Non-Fiction by Alan Trachtenberg
Ad Inferos; A Radio Telescope; Tom Rhinoceros, Poetry by John Taylor
Evensong, Poetry by E. F. Weisslitz
Hart Crane and the Clown Tradition, Non-Fiction by R. W. B. Lewis
Between Two Bells; The Birds Flew Over; The Dream of the City; Home, Poetry by John N. Norris
The Late Late Show, Poetry by John William Corrington
Popular Sociology, Non-Fiction by Ely Chinoy
The Mirror Image, Poetry by Eric Sellin
Desnuda, Poetry by Judson Crews
Evtushenko in Washington, Non-Fiction by Richard Eberhart
Walking with the Old Man’s Last Book; The End of the World; Sal’s Song, Poetry by Nicholas Crome
IN REVIEW:
Kicking Philosophy Upstairs, Non-Fiction by W. E. Kennick
The Muse’s Method, Non-Fiction by William G. Madsen
Breakup of Empire, Non-Fiction by Richard Winston
Progression Through Repetition, Non-Fiction by William Abrahams
John Dryden: Poetry and Public Life, Non-Fiction by Frederick S. Troy
Contributors
William Abrahams is the author of four novels; the most recent, Children of Capricorn, was published in 1963 by Random House.
Ely Chinoy of Smith College, whose latest book is Society (Random House, 1961), will be Visiting Professor at the University of Leicester, England for 1963-64.
John William Corrington has written two volumes of poetry; a forthcoming novel will be published by Harper & Row.
Judson Crews, of Taos, New Mexico, is a printer by trade; his poems appear often in American journals.
Nicholas Crome will teach at Colorado State University in the fall.
George Cuomo won second prize in the Bantam-Esquire short story contest for 1963.
R. C. Day teaches English at Humboldt State College in Arcata, California.
Richard Eberhart, noted poet, now teaches at Dartmouth College.
William Ferguson, of Milford, N. H., is a junior at Harvard College.
Sid Gershgoren lives in New York.
George Hitchcock is Opera Stage Director at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
W. E. Kennick teaches philosophy at Amherst College; he has a forthcoming book on aesthetics (St. Martin’s Press), another on metaphysics, with Morris Lazerowitz (Prentice-Hall).
Fiction by Edith Konecky has appeared in Esquire and Kenyon Review; she won the Mabel Louise Robinson Award for 1961.
Aaron Kramer has published twelve volumes of poetry.
Gaylord LeRoy, of Temple University, wrote Perplexed Prophets, a study of Carlyle, Ruskin, Arnold, and other Victorians.
R. W. B. Lewis is at work on a book on Hart Crane.
William Madsen is a Milton specialist; his Dell Laurel edition of Milton’s selected poems will appear next October.
The Rev. Leonard McCarthy SJ. is the author of Dogma and Delight, a book of poems; he teaches English at Holy Cross College, Worcester, Mass.
Josephine Miles, poet and critic, is presently working on a verse play, and a study of Emerson.
John N. Morris teaches at Columbia University.
Poetry by W. R. Moses of Manhattan, Kansas has appeared in the New Yorker, Poetry, and other journals.
Melvin Seiden teaches at Harpur College, Binghamton, New York.
Poems and translations by Eric Sellin appear frequently in leading periodicals.
Marvin Solomon has published three books of verse.
John Taylor has a doctorate from the State University of Iowa.
Alan Trachtenberg teaches at Pennsylvania State University.
Frederick S. Troy, specialist in 18th-century literature, is a trustee of the University of Massachusetts.
E. F. Weisslitz lives in New York.
Fiction by Thomas Whitbread was included in Prize Stories 1962: the O. Henry Awards.
A resident of Chicago, Helen Winter combines poetry with professional accounting and household duties.
Richard Winston, biographer and translator, is working on a life of Thomas Becket; he is the author of Charlemagne: From the Hammer to the Cross.