(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…
MASTHEAD Directors DeWitt Henry Peter O'Malley Coordinating Editor for This Issue Seamus Heaney Associate Editor Eamon Grennan CONTRIBUTORS JOHN BANVILLE lives in Dublin, has published a volume of stories and three novels, the most recent of which was Doctor Copernicus. EILÉAN NÍ CUILLEANÁIN teaches at Trinity College, Dublin. Her latest book is The Second Voyage:…
MASTHEAD Directors DeWitt Henry Peter O'Malley Coordinating Editor for This Issue Lloyd Schwartz CONTRIBUTORS STEVE ALBERT is a poet and fiction writer from California, now living in Cambridge. FRANK BIDART'S books of poetry are Golden State (Braziller) and The Book of the Body (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). He was the Coordinating Editor of Ploughshares 2/4….
Seamus Heaney has been at Harvard University teaching two writing courses during the Spring semester. The interview took place in Cambridge, Massachusetts at Michael Mazur's studio with James Randall and Seamus Heaney seated on a couch, tape recorder between them, and Michael Mazur working on sketches of Heaney for a monotype to be used for…
For someone like myself, who writes in a language she was not born into, the second language assumes and retains a special fascination. We absorb our first language long before we speak it, and we learn to speak it fluently without ever becoming conscious of the learning process. The second language – in my case…
MASTHEAD Directors DeWitt Henry Peter O'Malley Coordinating Editor for This Issue Ellen Bryant Voigt Editor for Criticism Lorrie Goldensohn CONTRIBUTORS TOM ABSHER was one of four winners of the 1978 Nation-YMHA Discovery Awards. He lives in Vermont. ANGELA BALL is completing a Ph.D. at University of Denver. JANE BARNES edits Dark Horse. MICHAEL BENEDIKT is…
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