Volume 5, Issue 4
FRONT COVER: Charles Wells
SEATED WOMAN, 1964
SCULPTURE
Photograph by Hyman Edelstein
Table of Contents
Changing People: Negro Civil Rights & the Colleges, Non-Fiction by Howard Zinn
Sonnet; What Have I Lost, Poetry by Paul Goodman
Mississippi Ham Rider, Fiction by Toni Cade
The Invasion; The Traveler; Watching the Fire; A Winter Light; The Cave of Animals, Poetry by John Haines
Last Encounter with Lorca, Non-Fiction by Gabriel Celay, Translated by Jose Yglesias
From Baileys Mistake; At Saranac, Poetry by Bruce Berlind
A Sign, and a Smile, Fiction by H. T. Fitzgerald
No Interpretations Please; You Think It’s Going To Be Easy, Poetry by Leonard Nathan
On Sleeping Together; for Chloe; for Cleo, Poetry by Barbara Howes
Style and Humanity in Malamud’s Fiction, Non-Fiction by Marc L. Ratner
Calamine Lotion; Kaddish, Poetry by Robert Sward
Delia and the Sunfishes, Fiction by Raymond Kennedy
Marty Dreams of Glory; Nevada; Song; It Is Enough, Poetry by Jack Hand
Charles Wells: Sculpture and Prints by Charles Chetham, with fourteen reproductions
Britannia’s Muse, Non-Fiction by Robin Skelton
Grandfather, Poetry by Joan Swift
Not Comparable To, Poetry by Wilson Clough
A Quality of Bach’s Complexity, Non-Fiction by Henry G. Mishkin
The Beautiful Tiger; A Tree Is, Poetry by Keith Gunderson
Thorstein Veblen’s Practical Cats, Non-Fiction by J. C. Levenson
Poem, Non-fiction by Milton Gilman
The Walker: Modern American Hero, Non-Fiction by Richard Pearce
Correspondence: John Brown Jr. and the Haymarket Martyrs, edited by Louis Ruchames
IN REVIEW:
Two German Writers of the Sixties, Non-Fiction by Beate Ruhm von Oppen
The Struggle for Human Rights in America, Non-Fiction by Mulford Q. Sibley
France Since 1789, Non-Fiction by Henri Peyre
Two Lives of John Keats, Non-Fiction by William Heath
Hemingway’s Sad Memoir, Non-Fiction by William Van O’Connor
Contributors
Bruce Berlind has published a volume of verse (Ways of Happening) and teaches at Colgate University.
Toni Cade appears here with her first published story; she is a graduate student at NYU.
Gabriel Celaya was born in Basque country in 1911 and lives in Madrid; he is the author of some forty-two volumes of translations, poetry, stories, criticism, and a novel.
Charles Chetham is MR‘s Art editor and Director of the Smith College Museum.
Wilson O. Clough, recently retired Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Wyoming, is the author of a book on the intellectual origins of American thought.
H. T. Fitzgerald lives in Michigan and has published essays in educational journals.
Milton Gilman has published verse in various small magazines.
Paul Goodman‘s most recent books are Making Do and The Lordly Hudson; his Compulsory Mis-Education will be out in October.
Poems by Keith Gunderson have previously appeared in MR; he teaches philosophy at UCLA.
John Haines is completing his first book of poems; he lives in Alaska.
Jack Hand teaches American literature at Bethany College, West Virginia.
Barbara Howes is the author of a book of poems (Light and Dark), and editor of Twenty-Three Modern Stories (Vintage).
Raymond Kennedy is a frequent contributor to MR; his novel, My Father’s Orchard (Houghton, Mifflin, 1963), was recently published in England.
J. C. Levenson is the author of The Mind and Art of Henry Adams.
Henry G. Mishkin, of Amherst College, is MR‘s Music editor.
William Van O’Connor is a Fulbright professor in Wales this year.
Leonard E. Nathan is the author of two books of verse; Moods of a Matchmaker (MR, IV, 1) is to be published by The Gehenna Press.
Richard Pearce teaches at Wheaton College; research for his article was sponsored by the Alfred University Research Foundation.
Henri Peyre, of Yale University, is the author of over twenty books—Literature and Sincerity is the most recent.
Marc L. Ratner of the University of Massachusetts is a Fulbright lecturer in Germany.
Louis Ruchames, rabbi and historian, edited The Abolitionists (Putnam, 1963).
Beate Ruhm von Oppen has taught in England and at Smith College; she teaches History at the University of Massachusetts.
Mulford Q. Sibley, Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota, is a well-known spokes man for civil liberties in America; his Conscription of Conscience received the FDR Award of the Political Science Association.
Robin Skelton, poet and editor, teaches at the University of Victoria, B. C.
Robert Sward has a second book of poems, Kissing the Dancer, forthcoming (Cornell).
Joan Swift has published verse in several magazines.
Jose Yglesias is the author of a novel, Wake in Ybor City (Holt, 1963), and translator of three from the Spanish.
Howard Zinn, now teaching at Boston University, will publish two books in the fall: The Southern Mystique (Knopf) and SNCC: The New Abolitionists (Beacon).