Volume 9, Issue 4
FRONT COVER: Wang Hui-Ming
ON POETRY
WOODCUT
Table of Contents
The Use of American Power in the Post-Colonial World, Non-Fiction by Herbert I. Schiller
Sacramental Acts, Poetry by Barry Goldensohn
Sandbox, Fiction by Charlotte Painter
For Robert Kennedy, Poetry by Donald Junkins
Timely Message; Time, Poetry by James Arlington Jones
Six Prose Pieces, Fiction by Paul van Ostaijen, Translated, with an introduction by E. M. Beekman
Going to Chicago, N.; Graves Registration Unit, Poetry by Arthur L. Devlin
Ovenmen, Fiction by Lloyd Zimpel
October Fifteenth, Poetry by Philip Appleman
The Dark Time, Poetry by Steven Osterlund
Divorce, Poetry by W. A. Mathewson
If The Pale Ballerina, Poetry by Norman H. Russell
Recent American Poetry: Outside Relevancies, Non-Fiction by Anne Halley
SEVEN YOUNG POETS
When You Go; Inversions of Summer; Hitch-hiker; “The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me,” Poetry by Brendan Galvin
The summer virgins in the library; Semifinal in the china room; The turkey buzzard ode; Cardinal recurrent, Poetry by Harold Flavin
The way home; For Nancy, for a dog, Poetry by Brian Richards
Porsche, Poetry by Michael Heffernan
Night fishing; For my cousin, dead at fifteen, Poetry by Gibbons Ruark
The huckster; House of all my loves, Poetry by Steven Orlen
Where I am now; Small town; Rain bears this early hour, Poetry by James D. Cleghorn
Emerson and Kierkegaard: The Problem of Historical Christianity, Non-Fiction by Harold Fromm
Film: Blow-Up: Medium, Message, Mythos and Make-Believe, Non-Fiction by George Slover
Don’t Try to Fool Her!; The Reported Flood, Poetry by Donald Moyer Sunday Ritual, Poetry by Robert Phillips
Observer: The Phoenix and the Desert Places, Non-Fiction by Stearns Morse
I Have Never Been to War; The Moon Turned Bankrupt, Poetry by Charles Robinson
Documentation: In Nomination for the Presidency the Name of The Reverend Channing E. Phillips, Non-Fiction by Philip M. Stern
IN REVIEW:
R. W. B. Lewis’s Hart Crane, Non-Fiction by Warner Berthoff
Sacerdotium Versus Regnum, Non-Fiction by Eleanor Duckett
Film Criticism in Crisis, Non-Fiction by Charles Thomas Samuels
A Sense of Kermode, Non-Fiction by William H. Pritchard
Poverty, Prejudice and the Draft, Non-Fiction by Peter H. Salus
Contributors
Philip Appleman is in the English Department of Indiana University.
E. M. Beekman will Conduct a program in Dutch Letters and Language at the University of Massachusetts in 1969-70.
Warner Berthoff of Harvard is the author of a monograph on Edmund Wilson (Minnesota) and a critical edition of Emerson’s Nature (Chandler).
Arthur L. Devlin is serving a life sentence for murder in the Norfolk (Mass.) State Prison.
Eleanor Duckett, Sophia Smith Fellow of Smith College, has most recently published Carolingian Portraits and Death and Life in the Tenth Century (both Michigan).
Harold Fromm teaches English at Brooklyn College; he is the author of a study of George Bernard Shaw’s drama criticism.
Barry Goldensohn teaches at Goddard College.
Anne Halley, a frequent contributor to MR, is the author of Between Wars and Other Poems (Massachusetts and Oxford).
James Arlington Jones lives in the East Village; he will be represented in a new anthology of black poets (Duke).
Donald Junkins‘ “Graves of Scotland Parish” won MR‘s Jennie Tane Award and an award from the National Foundation for the Arts and Humanities.
W. A. Mathewson has lived in Carmel, California and in Albany.
Stearns Morse is Professor of English, Emeritus, Dartmouth College, and editor of Lucy Crawford’s History of the White Mountains (1966).
Donald Moyer is a young poet at present working in Old Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts; poems of his have appeared in Poetry.
Steven Osterlund is a young American poet living in Canada.
Charlotte Painter has published previously in MR, The New Yorker, Western Review; she is a lecturer in creative writing at Stanford.
Robert Phillips has published in many literary magazines and is the author of three books, including The Confessional Poets (So. Illinois).
William Pritchard, a frequent contributor, is in England, on leave from MR and Amherst College.
Charles Robinson, a recent M.F.A. from Colorado State with a promising future, died in an automobile accident on August 14, 1967.
Norman H. Russell, has published seven scientific books, sixty research articles, and two hundred poems in forty journals.
Peter H. Salus is Chairman of the Program in Linguistics, University of Massachusetts, and is active in the War Resister’s League and the Workshop in Non-violence of the Valley Peace Center.
Charles Thomas Samuels won MR‘s Newton Arvin Award in Criticism for his article on Edward Albee; he teachees at Williams.
Herbert I. Schiller is Editor of the Quarterly Review of Economics & Business and Research Professor in Economics and Communications at the University of Illinois.
George Slover is at work on a major study of theatrical structure as symbolic form; he teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
Lloyd Zimpel has long been resident in San Francisco and has published several stories in MR.
SEVEN YOUNG POETS:
James D. Cleghorn is completing his doctorate at the University of Massachusetts.
Harold Flavin lives in Springfield, Mass, and is represented in Intro, a new anthology of young writers (Bantam).
Brendan Galvin teaches at Slippery Rock State College; he has published poems in many journals, including the Hudson Review, Atlantic, Malahat Review, Prairie Schooner.
Michael Hefernan is teaching at Northern Michigan University while completing his Ph.D.
Steven Orlen has appeared in over a dozen little magazines; he teaches at at Arizona State.
Brian Richards has appeared in Intro; he is completing his M.F.A. at the University of Massachusetts.
Gibbons Ruark teaches English in the University of Delaware; he has published verse in Poetry, MR, and elsewhere.