Volume 41, Issue 3
Front Cover: Percival Lowell
“Mars Globe,” 1905
Table of Contents
Paul Celan, three poems translated from the German by John Felstiner
Year of the Prison; Natural History, two poems by Abigail Wender
Percival Lowell and the History of Mars, by Robert Crossley
Down Hills, a story by Sandra Miller
Travelogue: 1998, by Damion Searls
Spell, a poem by Dorothea Grünzweig, translated from the German by Derk Wynand
For Instances, a poem by Jorge Luis Borges, translated from the Spanish by Kurt Heinzelman
Dying Matters, by Spencer Nadler
1999 Flower Glass, a story by Jim Janko
Bertolt Brecht, His Name as if From Tar, a poem by Andrew Miller
All About Me, a poem by Linda Fader Swenson
Traffic of our Stage: Chekhov’s Mistress, by Normand Berlin
Trip to Falls, a story by Martin Cozza
Meadow Death, a poem by Stuart Friebert
The Invisible World, a poem by John Canaday
A Good Night, a poem by Sara Littlecrow Russell
Enormous Languages Were Pitched Against Us, a story by Sam Michel
Herons, a poem by Charles Rafferty
Life Guard, by David Masello
Light, a poem by Jody Wine
Contributors
Normand Berlin is the author of five books on drama and numerous essays ranging from medieval poetry to modern drama and film.
Argentine poet, essayist, and short-story writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) wrote numerous classics of 20th-century world literature.
John Canaday works as an Education Specialist in Boston, collaborating with students in third grade through graduate school in writing, literature, math, science and history. He has poems out or forthcoming in The Paris Review, The Beloit Poetry Journal, New England Review, Raritan, Salamander and two anthologies.
Paul Celan (1920-1979) is a pseudonym for Paul Antshel, generally recognized as the greatest post-war German poet.
A native of New Castle, Pennsylvania, Martin Cozza is a graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshops and recently held a residency at Yaddo. He also taught high school math and science for two years in Swaziland as a Peace Corps volunteer.
Robert Crossley is a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He has written four books, including An Olaf Stapledon Reader, as well as numerous journal articles and essays.
John Felstiner is the author of Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the MLA’s James Russell Lowell Prize, and a recipient of the Truman Capote Prize for Literary Criticism.
Stuart Friebert‘s most recent book is Funeral Pie (Four-Way Books); his new poems are in New Letters and Malahat.
Dorothea Grünzweig divides her time between Helsinki, Finland and Germany. Her publications include Mittsommerschnitt (Midsummer Cut), which received the Lyrikpreis der Stiftung Niedersachen/Wolfenbüttel poetry prize.
Kurt Heinzelman has a book of poetry forthcoming in the Fall of 2000 called The Halfway Tree.
A medic during the Vietnam war, Jim Janko‘s fiction has appeared in The Massachusetts Review, The Sun, and American Writing. His most recently published story was nominated for a 1998 Pushcart Prize
David Masello, author of Art in Public Places, and Architecture Without Rules, is currently a New York Correspondent for Art & Antiques Magazine.
Sam Michel lives with his wife and two children in Heath, Massachusetts and in Choteau, Montana. He has published a collection of stories called Under the Light (Knopf), and his novel, Lincoln Dahl Turns Five, is forthcoming.
A native of Fresno, California, Andrew Miller received his MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. Currently he lives in Denmark with his wife and daughter.
Sandra Miller is a native of Virginia and is presently completing her MA at the University of Chicago.
Spencer Nadler is a regular contributor to MR. His book of essays, Coming Into Focus, will be published by Random House in the Spring of 2001.
Charles Rafferty is the author of The Man on the Tower (University of Arkansas Press).
Activist and poet Sara Littlecrow Russell lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.
Damion Searls is currently writing a novel about Vermeer’s family. His translations of Ingeborg Bachmann’s Letters to Felician is forthcoming in 2000.
Linda Fader Swenson‘s poems are forthcoming from the American Literary Review. She lives in Johnson City, New York.
Abigail Wender teaches creative writing at The Writer’s Studio in New York City.
Former editor of the Malahat Review, Derk Wynand is a poet, translator, and fiction writer. His most recent book of poems is called Closer to Home (Brick Books)
Jody Winer lives in New York City and writes advertising for a living. Her poetry has appeared in Open City, Mudfish, and The Harvard Crimson.