Volume 8, Issue 2
FRONT COVER: Leonard Baskin
from the forthcoming Gehenna Press edition of
Leonard Nathan’s The Matchmaker’s Lament and
Other Astonishments
Table of Contents
Absurd, Absurd, Fiction by Myron Levoy
Gather Ye Rosebuds O Leda Goldman; Verities, Poetry by M. J. Bosse
Breughel’s Farmers, Poetry by John Taylor
March, Poetry by Lincoln Kirstein
The Changing Face of American Political Ideology, Non-Fiction by Everett Carll Ladd, Jr.
Brotherhood Week; Eichmann; It Won’t Work, Poetry by Leonard Nathan
“Bye, Lena,” Non-Fiction by Charlotte Painter
Clouds Black with Tomorrow’s Snow, Poetry by Richard Purdum
English Comp., Poetry by W. W. and Rosellen Brown
Still Born, Poetry by Marjorie Bertram Smith
Reconnaissance, Poetry by C. B. Oppenheimer
The American Scene: Versions of the City, Non-Fiction by Alan Trachtenberg
After Antietam; The Fillmore, Poetry by George Keithley
The Hafflin an the Bodach, Poetry by David Buchan
Mother, Poetry by Mairi MacInnes
Fortunes of the Novel: Muriel Spark and Iris Murdoch, Non-Fiction by Warner Berthoff
Feeding the Chickadees, Poetry by Michael Hamburger
Suite, Poetry by Jean Garrigue
Observer: The Boys of Santa Pola, Non-Fiction by Jose Yglesias
Barcelona Calling; More Correspondence; Return; Café Life; Domesticity, Poetry by Thomas Parkinson
Britannia’s Muse Awaking, Non-Fiction by Robin Skelton
Mouths; Cleanliness, Poetry by Robert Hershon
World of Child Drummers; Journeyman, Poetry by J. Edgar Simmons
Comment: By Power Possessed, Non-Fiction by Milton Mayer
IN REVIEW:
Culture as Therapy, Non-Fiction by Richard W. Noland
Echoes of Revolt, Non-Fiction by Harvey Swados
The Fixer, Non-Fiction by Stanley Elkin
Greene’s Comedians and Amis’ Anti-Death League, Non-Fiction by Allan Casson
The Americanization of Martin Green, Non-Fiction by Richard Foster
Contributors
Warner Berthoff of Bryn Mawr won a 1966 English Institute Prize.
M. J. Bosse has published The Journey of Tao Kim Nam with Doubleday here, Muller in England.
Rosellen Brown was W. W.’s college teacher at Tougaloo. W. W. continues at the college; Miss Brown now lives in Tougaloo and writes.
David Buchan, at the University of Massachusetts, is a native of Aberdeen, and has had his plays staged in Scotland.
Allan Casson teaches at the University of Southern California.
Stanley Elkin‘s new novel, A Bad Man, will be published this fall by Random House.
Richard Foster helps edit Minnesota’s pamphlets on American writers.
Jean Garrigue‘s New and Selected Poems will appear in September, from Macmillan.
Michael Hamburger was visiting in the German Department at Mount Holyoke in Fall 1966-67.
Robert Hershon‘s first collection, Swans Loving Bears Burning The Melting Deer, appeared May 1, from New/Books, Trumansburg, N. Y.
George Keithley writes, “The past year I’ve been working in the Sierras writing an epic dramatic poem, and published several short stories.”
Lincoln Kirstein, Director of the New York City Centre Ballet, is a frequent contributor to MR.
Everett C. Ladd, Jr. is in the Department of Political Science at the University of Connecticut.
An engineer of propulsion engines for spacecraft, Myron Levoy is active in off and off-off Broadway theatres.
Mairi MacInnes has a new book of verse ready for the press and is currently writing a novel.
Milton Mayer, a seasoned dissenter and moderator, teaches in alternate years at the University of Massachusetts.
Leonard Nathan has been working with S. H. Vatsyayam in India, translating selections of poetry from the Vadas.
Richard Noland, in English at the University of Massachusetts, has taught at Rutgers and Columbia, and has published in various critical quarterlies.
C. B. Oppenheimer published her book of poems Building the Bridge with Columbus Press in 1964.
Charlotte Painter published Fortunes of Laurie Breaux with Little, Brown in 1961, Who Made the Lamb with McGraw-Hill in 1965.
Thomas Parkinson, in English at Berkeley, is well known for his work on Yeats.
Felix Pollak is Curator of Rare Books, University of Wisconsin.
Richard Purdum lives in Athens, Ohio.
J. Edgar Simmons is in English at Mississippi College.
Robin Skelton, at Victoria, B. C, edits The Malahat Review.
Marjorie Bertram Smith, of Chautauqua, N. Y., has published in more than 25 periodicals.
Harvey Swados, at Sarah Lawrence, has a long novel in progress.
John Taylor lives in Buffalo.
Alan Trachtenberg published Brooklyn Bridge: Fact and Symbol with Oxford in 1965.
Jose Yglesias is a frequent contributor to MR.