Volume 5, Issue 3
FRONT COVER: Antoine Watteau
SIX STUDIES OF HEADS
Fogg Art Museum
Table of Contents
The Matter of the Deputy, Non-Fiction by Clara Winston
Was It Some Dark Worm Signaling; Haystacking; Summer Rain; The Lotus Pond, Poetry by Tracy Thompson
You Will Not Be Like Those, Poetry by Lou Lipsitz
Sticks and Stones, Fiction by Leonard Michaels
The Broken Pavement, Poetry by Neil Weiss
Home Thoughts, Poetry by Richard R. O’Keefe
The Sorrows of Edward Dahlberg, Non-Fiction by Ilhab Hassan
Essays & Poems: a Miscellany, Non-Fiction by Edward Dahlberg
Unpublished Preface to “Tropic of Cancer,” Non-Fiction by Walter Lowenfels
The Affair, Poetry by Theodore Holmes
Satan and the Pigeons on a Sunday in Mexico; Old Lady, Call Off the Witches, Poetry by Christopher Bursk
Siren, Poetry by S. C. Leland
The Lost Days, Fiction by Charles Bacas
Student Thoughts: On Sweeney, Poetry by Lewis Carole
The Russet Horse; Noah’s Fault, Poetry by Jere Berger
EIGHT STUDY SHEETS:
Introduction, by Michael Wentworth
Two Studies of a Nude Youth, 1519-1521, Art by Jacopo Pontormo (photographed by James West)
Three Studies of a Child and One of an Old Woman, early 40’s, Art by Rembrandt van Rijn (photographed by James West)
A Crouching Nude Youth Reaching for a Stone; Separate Study of an Arm, 1826-1827, Art by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (photographed by James West)
A Ballet Dancer in Position Facing Three-Quarters Front, 1872, Art by Edgar Degas (photographed by James West)
Three Women, Study for “The Grande Jatte,” c. 1885-1886, Art by Georges Seurat (photographed by Herbert P. Vose)
Studies: Old Man with a Glass, Hands, 1890, Art by Adolph Menzel (photographed by Hyman Edelstein)
Sheet of Studies with Three Elephants, about 1905, Art by Pablo Picasso
Chrysanthemum, 1908-1909, Art by Piet Mondrian (photographed by Hyman Edelstein)
In Quest of the Historical Schweitzer, Non-Fiction by James W. Fernandez
Sonata III, Poetry by James Hayford
The Penitente, Poetry by Mabel M. Kuykendall
Saga of Awakening, Poetry by M. Catherine Poe
Frederico Fellini’s “Purgatorio”, Non-Fiction by Barbara K. Lewalski
The Ohio at Night; A Hot Day with Little Result; Afternoon in the Canyon, Poetry by George Hitchcock
Will Identity; Bequest to the Wino, Poetry by R. S. Bronson
IN REVIEW:
Poets and Literary Men of Russia, Non-Fiction by Sidney Monas
Three Women Writers, Non-Fiction by Barbara Howes
Realism, Romance, and Reality, Non-Fiction by Geneviève Delattre
Italo Svevo: Poet of Ineptitude, Non-Fiction by Joseph Cary
Homage to Clio, Non-Fiction by Morris Weitz
Contributors
Charles Bacas has recently returned from the Greek island of Mykonos; this is his first published story.
Jere Berger is Protestant Chaplain at the University of Massachusetts.
R. S. Bronson, a heavy-equipment operator in the Colorado Rockies, has published verse in several small magazines.
Christopher Bursk is a junior at Tufts University.
Joseph Cary is finishing a book on modern Italian poetry.
Lewis Cole appears here with his first published poem.
Edward Dahlberg has left Mallorca for Ireland; his most recent books are the autobiographical Because I Was Flesh (New Directions, 1964) and Alms for Oblivion (Minnesota, 1964), a collection of essays on American literature.
Geneviève Delattre has published a book on Balzac as well as articles in Yale French Studies and other journals.
James W. Fernandez, of Smith College, has done extensive research in Africa and work with the Peace Corps.
Ihab Hassan, Professor of English at Wesleyan University and author of Radical Innocence, is at work on a book about Henry Miller and Samuel Beckett.
James Hayford has published verse in MR and other magazines.
George Hitchcock, Opera Stage Director for the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, has had his plays produced by university theatres.
Theodore Holmes has taught at several American universities; his poems have appeared in leading quarterlies.
Barbara Howes is the editor of Twenty-Three Modem Stories (Vintage, 1963); her latest book of verse was Light and Dark (Wesley an, 1959).
Mabel M. Kuykendall lives in Taos and was for twelve years co-editor and publisher of Quicksilver, a quarterly magazine of poetry.
S. C. Leland has appeared in MR.
Barbara Kiefer Lewalski, a seventeenth-century scholar at work on a book on Milton’s Paradise Regained, teaches at Brown University.
Lou Lipsitz has published poems in The Nation and the San Francisco Review Annual.
Walter Lowenfels is the author of Walt Whitman’s Civil War; his piece in this issue is from Second Biography, a work-in-process.
Leonard Michaels has published stories in Audit and Playboy and is at present a Teaching Fellow at the University of Michigan.
Sidney Monas teaches Russian history at the University of Rochester; he is the author of The Third Section (Harvard, 1961), and translated Scenes from the Bath House by M. Yoschenko.
Richard O’Keefe, of Loyola University in Chicago, has published in Antioch Review and elsewhere.
M. Catherine Poe is at work on a book of poems and a novel.
Tracy Thompson teaches at Kyoto University of Foreign Studies and is widely published.
Morris Weitz teaches philosophy at Ohio State University. Neil Weiss lives in New York City.
Michael Wentworth is pursuing studies at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Mass.
Clara Winston, novelist and translator, is the author of The Closest Kin There Is (Harcourt, Brace, 1952), and The Hours Together (Lippincott, 1961); her story in MR (Summer, 1962) won the Quill Award for Fiction.