The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought
Contents
ARTICLES
Schoolmarms, the Linguists, and the Language
Old Times There Are Not Forgotten: A Personal View of the "New South"
Detroit Today: Locked into the Past
Reverse Colonialism: British Relations with Kuwait
SELA: A New Beginning for Latin American Cooperation
A Case for the Negative Income Tax
POEMS
From The Liam Poems
Words for Hart Crane
The Coal Mine Disaster's Last Trapped Man Contemplates Salvation
The Game
The Lives of Rain .
Schroedinger's Cat
The Reckoning
Abstract
in this issue . . .
CHRISTOPHER CLAUSEN, who takes the schoolmarms' side against the linguists, teaches English at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He has published essays and poetry in numerous journals.
ROBERT S. McELVAINE, who looks at the "New South," teaches history at Milsaps College. He has published essays on American politics.
MELVIN G. HOLLI, who examines Detroit's problems, teaches history at The University of Illinois at Chicago Circle. He is the author of two books on Detroit. His The Ethnic Frontier, coedited with Peter d' A Jones, will be reviewed in another issue of MQ.
JUDITH SHAW, who chronicles changing relations between Britain and Kuwait, teaches history at Pittsburg State University.
LORING ALLEN, who discusses the prospect of economic cooperation in Latin America, teaches economics at The University of Missouri—St. Louis and at Universidad Simon Bolivar in Caracas. He has published a book on Venezuela.
DAVID KANERVO, who makes a case for the negative income tax, teaches political science at Texas A & M.
THOMAS McAFEE is consulting editor for the University of Missouri Press. In 1976-77, he held a National Endowment for the Arts grant in creative writing.
WILLIAM MEISSNER teaches at St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota.
THOMAS HEFFERNAN works in the North Carolina Poetry in the Schools Project and lives in Charlotte. His poems in this issue are from The Liam Poems, a sequence built from the life of Liam Dall O'Heffernan (1715-1802), the blind bard of Shronell in Tipperary. Liam Dall's name for Ireland personified as a woman, "Caitilin ni Uallachain," was employed most prominently by William Butler Yeats. Yeats planned an article on "William O'Heffernan the Blind" for the Dictionary of National Biography, but, if written, it was never published.
JUDITH JOHNSON SHERWIN is president of the Poetry Society of America. Norton published her new book of poems, How the Dead Count, earlier this year.
CHARLES CAGLE, who reviews John Wheatcroft's A Voice from the Hump, teaches English at Pittsburg State University.
Recommended Citation
Clausen, Christopher; McElvaine, Robert S.; Holli, Melvin G.; Shaw, Judith; Allen, Loring; Kanervo, David; Heffernan, Thomas; McAfee, Thomas; Meissner, William; Sherwin, Judith Johnson; and Midwest Quarterly Editors
(1978)
"The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 19 No. 3,"
The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought: Vol. 19:
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