Volume 9, Issue 1
FRONT COVER: Leonard Baskin
LIMESTONE DEAD MAN
Table of Contents
Mr. Styron and The Reverend Turner, Non-Fiction by Mike Thelwell
Stephen’s Green Revisited; Revolutionary, Poetry by Richard Weber
She So Quick, Poetry by Michael J. Phillips
Manikin, Fiction by Leonard Michaels
There is a Blue Wolf, Poetry by Jack Crawford, Jr.
The Kite, Poetry by Lewis Turco
A Memorial Tribute to Carl Sandburg, by Archibald MacLeish
A Game of Marbles; Sleeping Out, Poetry by Robin Skelton
The Limestone Dead Man, Art by Leonard Baskin; preface and six reproductions
GREECE TODAY:
David’s Night in Veliès, Poetry by James Merrill
EYEWITNESS: Greece, April 21, 1967, Non-Fiction by Robert McDonald
Grecian Summer, Non-Fiction by B. W. Heineman, Jr.
Retreat from Politics, Non-Fiction by George Anastaplo
CONTEXT: From Antartes to Symmorites: Road to Greek Fratricide, Non-Fiction by Elias Thermos
Social Change and Nationhood, Non-Fiction by Adamantia Pollis
Dilemmas of Modernization, Non-Fiction by William H. McNeill
Greek Political Freedom and United States Foreign Policy, Non-Fiction by Roy C. Macridis
The Disarray of Greek Politics in Exile, Non-Fiction by Stephen Rousseas
The Importunate, Poetry by Gray Burr
King Lear and Moby-Dick: The Cultural Connection, Non-Fiction by Julian Markels
The Ride Home, Poetry by Lawson Inada
Entries, Poetry by Felix Pollak
Traffic, Poetry by Eric Fried
IN REVIEW:
Nothing Like the English, Non-Fiction by Roger Sale
The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs, Non-Fiction by Trevor N. W. Bush
The Spanish Dilemma, Non-Fiction by Robert W. Kern
The Puritan Colonists, Non-Fiction by Norman S. Grabo
Contributors
T. N. W. Bush, now in Kenya, has written for us previously on South Africa.
Jack Crawford, Jr., whose poetry has appeared widely, teaches at S.U.N.Y. in New Paltz.
Eric Wolf Fried is a graduate in Wildlife and Conservation at Cornell.
Norman S. Grabo, author of three books on the poet Edward Taylor, teaches American Colonial Literature at Berkeley.
A native of Fresno, now living in Ashland, Oregon, Lawson Inada publishes poetry in many national quarterlies.
Robert W. Kern, author of Los Cauques (Madrid: El Nacional, 1967), teaches History at the University of Massachusetts.
Archibald MacLeish, who farms in Conway, Massachusetts, is wintering on Antigua, W.I.
The article on King Lear and Moby-Dick by Julian Markels comes from a chapter in a work-in-progress on the American mind.
Leonard Michaels has twice won MR‘s Quill Award for fiction.
Michael J. Phillips, in Comparative Literature at Indiana University, is working on a book on Edwin Muir.
In charge of the Sukov Collection, “one of the best little magazine collections in the country,” Felix Pollak is Curator of Rare Books in the University of Wisconsin Library.
Random House will publish this spring Roger Sale‘s Reading Spenser.
Editor of The Malahat Review, Robin Skelton will publish his Selected Poems 1947-1967 with McClelland & Stewart (Toronto).
Mike Thelwell, a Writing Fellow at Massachusetts, recently won first prize for “The Organizer” in Story 1968.
Lewis Turco has his third and fourth books forthcoming, Awaken, Bells Falling and Other Poems 1959-67 (University of Missouri) and a handbook of poetics (E. P. Dutton, Paperbacks).
Richard Weber, of Ireland, is Poet-in-Residence at the University of Massachusetts.
GREECE TODAY
George Anastaplo, who teaches at Rosary College and the University of Chicago, is preparing a book on Greece for George Braziller, Inc.
Gray Burr‘s poems are scheduled for a new volume from Wesleyan University Press.
B. W. Heineman, Jr. is a student at Yale Law School.
Roy C. Macridis is Professor of Government at Brandeis.
Robert McDonald is a Canadian press representative and free-lance writer living in Athens.
William H. McNeill is Professor of History at the University of Chicago.
James Merrill, the well-known poet, lives and works in Stonington, Connecticut.
Adamantia Pollis is an expert on contemporary Greek problems; she is a member of the graduate faculty at the New School for Social Research.
Stephen Rousseas of New York University recently published Death of a Democracy (Grove Press, 1967).
Elias Thermos teaches political science at Roosevelt University in Chicago.