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MASTHEAD Directors DeWitt Henry Peter O'Malley Coordinating Editor for This Issue Donald Hall Managing Editor Joyce Peseroff CONTRIBUTORS Ellery Akers is a free-lance writer and naturalist living in California. Her work has been published in the Harvard Magazine, the Northwest Review, the Aspen Anthology, and Intro 6. Bob Arnold is a Vermont stonemason. His most…
MASTHEAD Directors DeWitt Henry Peter O'Malley Coordinating Editor for This Issue DeWitt Henry Managing Editor Joyce Peseroff CONTRIBUTORS J. Bernlef, one of Holland's most prolific writers, has had 50 books published since 1960, and besides novels, short stories and poems, writes music as well. His latest novel is Ijsbergen (Icebergs). T. Alan Broughton is a…
Halliday: When I think about your two books, and the poems that I know will be in your third book, I seem to see a movement away from autobiographical material toward poems in which the characters are distinct from yourself – Nijinsky, Ellen West. Do you see a "story" of your choice of subjects for…
MASTHEAD Directors DeWitt Henry Peter O'Malley Coordinating Editor for This Issue Joyce Peseroff Managing Editor Joyce Peseroff CONTRIBUTORS FRANK BIDART'S note on Ralph Hamilton first appeared as part of the Institute of Contemporary Art's show, "Boston Collects Boston." His most recent book is The Book Of The Body (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). ROBERT BLY'S new…
MASTHEAD Directors DeWitt Henry Peter O'Malley Coordinating Editor for This Issue Alan Williamson Managing Editor Joyce Peseroff CONTRIBUTORS STEVEN ABLON is a psychoanalyst, and is on the faculty of the Harvard Medical School. This is his first publication as a poet since college. PAUL BRESLIN teaches at Northwestern University. His poems have appeared in Poetry,…
(from a novel in progress) The sleep of reason brings forth monsters. Francisco Goya He lay prone on the rutted stone path, his bare torso raised and supported by his right forearm, while his left arm and open hand reached vainly toward the empty cave where late had rested the dead body of the Christ…
the soul, Remembering how she felt, but what she felt Remembering not (Wordsworth) When your post-War Plymouth rattled up to our eternal practice, and you vaulted the fence, we’d drift down from the wildness memory does not hold, still half sky from shagging day-long flies. Sweat-suited, someone’s father, you’d bawl “Men!” Did the future press…
The highway was dark, strung with cats’-eyes, red and yellow, passing My window where my face floated; I watched Your face above the steering wheel, as always, calm to the bone; Your brown eyes and full lips droop, but the sadness is genetic only; The space beside your eyes is like a smooth pool. We…
MASTHEAD Directors DeWitt Henry Peter O'Malley Coordinating Editor for This Issue Gail Mazur CONTRIBUTORS JUDITH BAUMEL has poems published or forthcoming in The New Republic, Mademoiselle, The Nation, and The Paris Review. She teaches English at Boston University. MARIANNE BORUCH is living and teaching in Taiwan. She has poems forthcoming in The Iowa Review and…
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