Volume 5, Issue 1
FRONT COVER: Leonard Baskin
THOMAS EAKINS
DRAWING
Table of Contents
MR Literary Awards
The Logic of Tyranny:A New Russian Voice, Non-Fiction by John King-Farlow and J. M. Rothstein
Of Those Who Only Waited, Poetry by Leonard E. Nathan
Groundhog, Poetry by David Wevill
Playground, Poetry by Vern Rutsala
Afternoons, Poetry by Donald Junkins
Mr. Green, Fiction by J. W. Major, Jr.
Tombs at Tsfad, Galilee, Poetry by Neil Meyers
Single, the Poet is Surprised by Her Fever; Encounter; In the Shadows of Early Sunlight; Under the September Peach, Poetry by Robert Wallace
The Character of Jim and the Ending of Huckleberry Finn, Non-Fiction by Chadwick Hansen
At the Edge of West Field, Poetry by Peter D. Zivkovic
Bathing, Becoming; Widowed; From the Sea, Poetry by Eric Pfeiffer
A Monument of Laziness, Poetry by James Schevill
Love is a Donkey, Fiction by Edsel Ford
Man in Black, Poetry by Paul Petrie
Portraits of Artists; 18 reproductions and 1 portrait, Art by Leonard Baskin; with notes by Sidney Kaplan
The Invention, Poetry by Myron Levoy
Jet Surcharge, Poetry by Robert Berkowitz
Negative Thinking about Politics, Non-Fiction by Henry S. Kariel
To a Scapecat, Poetry by Richard Gillman
Midwestern Still Life; Before the Snowfall, Poetry by Charles Wright
Sonnet to Helene, Poetry by Tim Reynolds
The Muse of Samuel Clemens, Non-Fiction by James B. Cox
The Mount of Love, Poetry by Peter Dale Scott
Helen, Wife of Menelaus, Poetry by Mairi MacInnes
Cold Wave in Paris, Poetry by Jonathan Aaron
African Nationalist Movements in South Africa, Non-Fiction by Gwendolen M. Carter
A Letter on South Africa, Non-Fiction by The Rev. Trevor N.W. Bush
IN REVIEW:
“It’ll Be Me”: The Voice of Langston Hughes, Non-Fiction by Doris E. Abramson
Robert Frost and the Quintessence of Things, Non-Fiction by William Meredith
Manifesto for a New French Novel, Non-Fiction by Anne Kostelanetz
A Recent First Novel, Non-Fiction by R. V. Cassill
Four Irish Traditions, Non-Fiction by Richard M. Kain
Contributors
Jonathan Aaron lives in Chicago.
Doris E. Abramson teaches at the University of Massachusetts.
Robert Berkozvitz is an electronics engineer with the Mitre Corporation.
The Rev. Trevor N. W. Bush left his native South Africa in 1961 after a summons from the Government to answer charges of assisting the banned African National Congress of Chief Albert Luthuli.
Gwendolen M. Carter, of Smith College, will next year be Director of the African Studies Center at Northwestern University.
R. V. Cassill, novelist and short story writer, teaches writing at the University of Iowa.
James B. Cox is completing a critical study of Mark Twain.
Poetry and fiction by Edsel Ford have appeared in many small magazines.
Poems by Richard Gillman were included in Borestone Mountain’s Best Poems of 1961.
Chadwick Hansen, of Pennsylvania State University, is co-author of a handbook on modern fiction.
Donald Junkins teaches at Chico State College in California.
Richard M. Kain has written and lectured extensively on Irish topics. His books include Fabulous Voyager and Dublin in the Age of W. B. Yeats.
A Contributing Editor to MR, Sidney Kaplan is in Greece as a Fulbright lecturer.
Henry S. Kariel is now at Bennington College.
Philosophical papers and reviews by John King-Farlow have appeared in many journals here and abroad.
Anne Kostelanetz is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at Columbia University.
Myron Levoy writes scientific articles as well as poems and plays.
Mairi Maclnnes is co-editor of Versions of Censorship (Anchor, 1962).
J. W. Major Jr. is a high school teacher in Queens, New York. His work has appeared in Prairie Schooner and other journals.
William Meredith‘s third book of poems, The Open Sea, was published by Knopf in 1958.
Neil Meyers was formerly co-editor of the Minnesota Review.
Poems by Leonard Nathan have appeared frequently in MR. Glad and Sorry Seasons (Random House) is his latest book.
Paul Petrie is author of Confessions of a Non-Conformist (Hillside Press, Mount Vernon, Iowa).
Eric Pfeifer is a psychiatrist at the University of Rochester School of Medicine.
Tim Reynolds teaches French and Latin at the Pentucket Regional High School, West Newbury, Mass. Ryoanji, a book of his poems, came out this spring (Harcourt, Brace).
J. M. Rothstein, Amherst ’62, is Graduate Fellow in Philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley.
Vern Rutsala is a frequent contributor to American literary magazines.
James Schevill is Director of the Poetry Center at San Francisco State College.
Peter Dale Scott recently left the Canadian Foreign Service to teach at the University of California, Berkeley.
Poems by Robert Wallace have appeared in The Atlantic and New Yorker.
David Wevill is included in Penguin Modern Poets (1963).
Charles Wright is in Italy on a Fulbright grant.
Peter D. Zivkovic has a State Department grant to Yugoslavia.