The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought
Contents
ARTICLES
In Mind: The Divided Self and Women's Poetry
Names to Accept, Straniero, Forestiero: A Reading of Richard Hugo's Good Luck in Cracked Italian
The Moral Structure of John Gardner's "The King's Indian"
The Prisoner as Creator in Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song
INTERVIEW
An Interview with Lawrence Ferlinghetti
COMMENT
Rock Bottom: Louise Glück and the Poetry of Dispassion
POEMS
At the Airport
The Hired Hand
New Day, Central Daylight Time
Lot's Wife
A Theory
Epistola de secretis operibus, chapter 4
The Nearerness
"Uh-oh, I just remembered something . . .”
Who We Write For
A Study of Goldb---h's Poetry in Terms of His Century's Artifacts: Prefatory Notes
Lines
The Black Brother Poems
Hauling Traps with Theodore: A Midnight Narrative at Low Tide
Horseshoes in Saugus, 1942
Playing Glassies with Dickie Mallar, 1943
The Bass
REVIEWS
Robert Dana; In a Fugitive Season
Larry Levis; The Dollmaker's Ghost
Abstract
in this issue. . .
OUR SUMMER LITERARY NUMBER this year, under the acting editorship of Poetry Editor Michael Heffernan, is entirely devoted to contemporary American literature. Since two of our articles discuss works by Richard Hugo and John Gardner, both of whom died last fall, we would like to dedicate this issue to their memories. Requiescant.
ALICIA OSTRIKER edited the Complete Poems of William Blake from Penguin (1978). A collection of her critical essays, Writing like a Woman, has just appeared in the Michigan series of Poets on Poetry. Her most recent book of poems is A Woman under the Surface (Princeton). She teaches at Rutgers.
JONATHAN HOLDEN's essay is from his book on Hugo, forthcoming from the Associated Faculty Press (Port Arthur, N.Y.). Indiana published his widely acclaimed The Rhetoric of the Contemporary Lyric in 1980. His new book of poems, Leverage, will be published this fall by the University of Virginia Press as the winner of the 1982 Associated Writing Programs award in poetry. Another book of his poems, Falling from Stardom, will also appear this fall from Carnegie-Mellon. He teaches at Kansas State.
ROBERT A. MORACE teaches at Daemen College in Amherst, New York. He has published two books on Gardner.
JUDITH A. SCHEFFLER teaches in the Department of Humanities and Communications at Drexel University in Philadelphia.
ROBERT DANA's interview with LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI is from a book in preparation, Against the Grain: Interviews with Maverick American Publishers. He teaches at Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, Iowa.
J. V. BRUMMELS directs the Plains Writers' Series and teaches at Wayne State College, Wayne, Nebraska. He lives on a farm with his wife, son, and horses near Winside, Nebraska.
ALBERT GOLDBARTH, whose work has been appearing in MQ since the early 70s, has recently published Original Light: New and Selected Poems 1973-1983 with the Ontario Review Press. He teaches at the University of Texas (Austin) and will spend the next academic year as a Guggenheim Fellow.
DONALD JUNKINS teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Massachusetts (Amherst). He recently served as poetry editor for the New American Review.
CAROLANN RUSSELL is poet-in-residence at Tarkio College in Missouri. She has poems appearing or forthcoming in The Devil's Millhopper, Ohio Review and Poet and Critic.
JOHN STONE is a physician and professor of medicine (cardiology) at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta. His latest book of poems, In All This Rain, was published by Louisiana State University Press in 1980. His 1982 commencement address to the Emory School of Medicine, written in free verse under the title "Gaudeamus lgitur," was recently published by the Journal of the American Medical Association (1 April 1983).
GREG KUZMA teaches at the University of Nebraska (Lincoln) and is publisher of the Best Cellar Press. In 1981 he received a grant in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts.
SAM HAMILL, poet and publisher (Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend, Washington), received a Guggenheim Fellowship this year. His book of "casual essays and reviews," At Home in the World, was published by Jawbone Press (Seattle) in 1981.
ERIC PANKEY is a Teaching Writing Fellow at the University of Iowa. He will publish poems in early issues of The Kenyon Review and The Missouri Review.
Photo credit: Georges Hoffman. Courtesy of New Directions Publishing Corp. Special thanks to Buzz Palmer for help with photography.
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Ostriker, Alicia; Holden, Jonathan; Morace, Robert A.; Sheffler, Judith A.; Dana, Robert; Kuzma, Greg; Brummels, J. V.; Goldbarth, Albert; Russell, CarolAnn; Junkins, Donald; Stone, John; Hamill, Sam; Pankey, Eric; and Midwest Quarterly Editors
(1983)
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