Winter 1997
New Series · Volume XIX Number 1

Contents · Contributors · Editor's Notes & Cover Art

contributors
  ROBERT AITKEN is roshi (master) of the Honolulu Diamond Sangha, a Zen Buddhist society. His most recent book is Original Dwelling Place: Zen Buddhist Essays (Counterpoint, 1996).
  RUTH BEHAR is the author of Translated Woman: Crossing the Border with Esperanza's Story (Beacon, 1993) and The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology that Breaks Your Heart (Beacon. 1996>. She has edited Bridges to Cuba (Michigan, 1995) and coedited Women Writing Culture (California, 1995). She teaches anthropology at the University of Michigan.
  WENDELL BERRY is author of Entries (poems. Pantheon. 1994) and Another Turn of the Crank (essays, Counterpoint,1995). His novel. A World Lost, is due from Counterpoint this fall. He lives in Kentucky.
  ANNE ANLIN CHENG, an assistant professor of English at Berkeley, is working on a book of critical theory titled The Melancholy of Race. Her works of poetry have appeared in Ontario Review, Midland Review, Helicon Nine, and other journals.
  CHRISTOPHER JANE CORKERY is author of Blessing (Pninceton University Press) and has recent work in Atlantic, Boston Phoenix, and Partisan Review. Winner of a Pushcart Prize and an Ingram Merrill Foundation Fellowship, she lives in Concord, Massachusetts.
  WENDY DONIGER is Mircea Eliade Professor of the History of Religions in the Divinity School of the University of Chicago and a member of the Committee on Social Thought.
  BRUCE DORSEY teaches history at Swarthmore College and has been awarded fellowships from the Pew Program in Religion and American History and the Center for the Study of American Religion at Princeton University. His recent publications include "Manhood in America, 1750-1920" (Radical History Review 64 [1966]: 19-30).
  ALAN FELDMAN sails his Westerly sloop, Willy, out of Blackfish Creek, Wellfleet, Cape Cod, each summer. This year he will be working on a book about the sink-or-swim drama of a freshman writing class at Framingham State College in Massachusetts, where he chairs the English department.
  DAVID GEWANTER teaches writing at Harvard University. In the Belly, his first book of poems, is forthcoming from University of Chicago Press.
RACHEL HADAS is professor of English at the Newark campus of Rutgers University. Most recent of her eleven books is The Double Legacy (essays, Faber & Faber, 1995).
MARK HALLIDAY's books of poems are Little Star (1987, a National Poetry Series selection) and Tasker Street (1992, winner of the Juniper Prize). He teaches in the writing program at Ohio University.
JANE HIRSHFIELD's most recent book is The October Palace (Harper-Collins, 1994). She has received the Poetry Center Bede Award, Bay Area Book Reviewers Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations. Recent poems appear in Atlantic, New Republic, and other magazines.
  CLIFF HUDDER's fiction has appeared in The Florida Review (1992) and Alaska Quarterly Review (1994). He is a recent recipient of a Michener Award and has an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Houston.
  ANN LAUTERBACHr s books include Clamor (Viking Penguin, 1991) and And for Example (Viking Penguin. 1994). She teaches at City College of New York, the Graduate Center, and in the M.F.A. program at Bard. She received a Mac Arthur Fellowship in 1993.
  LORI HOPE LEFKOVITZ, an associate professor at Kenyon College, is author of The Character of Beauty in the Victorian Novel and articles of fiction, critical theory, and gender and Judaism.
  JAMES McPHERSON teaches in the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. His essays have appeared in Best American Essays. He was elected in 1995 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
D. NURKSE's most recent book, Voices over Water, is being reissued by Four Way Books. He has works forthcoming in Grand Street and the New Yorker.
  JOYCE CAROL OATES is the author most recently of Will You Always Love Me? (stories) and We Were the Mulvaneys (a novel). She is the 1996 recipient of the PEN/Malamud Award for achievement in the short story.
  JOYCE E. PESEROFF's two books of poems are The Hardness Scale and A Dog in the Lifeboat. Her recent work has appeared in Agni, Massachusetts, and Southern Review.
  ISRAEL ROSENFIELD s books include The Invention of Memory: A New View of the Brain (Basic Books. 1988; revised 1989) and The Strange, Familiar and Forgotten (Knopf. 1992: Vantage, 1993). He teaches at City University of New York, has been a Guggenheim Fellow, and is preparing for publication a "lost" manuscript of Sigmund Freud.
  MICHAEL S. ROTH is assistant director for scholars at the Getty Research Institute. His most recent books are The Ironist's Cage: Trauma, Memory and the Construction of History (Columbia, 1995) and, as editor, Rediscovering History: Culture, Politics and the Psyche (Stanford, 1994).
  KAY RYAWs third book of poems is Elephant Rocks (Grove Press, 1996). Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic, New Republic, Paris Review, and elsewhere.
  WENDY SALINGER's book Folly River won the first open competition of the National Poetry Series. A former Guggenheim Fellow, she has published in Ploughshares, Paris Review, and the New Yorker.
  LESLIE SCALAPINO's most recent books are Green and Black, Selected Writings (Talisman, 1996), The Weatherman Turns Himself In (Zasterle, 1996), and The Front Matter, Dead Souls (Wesleyan, 1996). She is teaching this year at Mills College and the San Francisco Art Institute.
  SUSAN STEWART is the author of three books of poetry, most recently The Forest (Chicago, 1995), and three books of prose, On Longing, Crimes of Writing, and Nonsense. In 1995-1996 she received a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest individual writer's award and a Pew Fellowship in the arts.
  JUDITH STRASSER is a producer and interviewer for the nationally syndicated public radio program "To the Best of Our Knowledge." Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Prairie Schooner, and other magazines.
  ELEANOR WILNER's last book of poems is Otherwise (University of Chicago, 1993); Selected & New is forthcoming from Copper Canyon. Her awards include a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and the Juniper Prize. She teaches in the M.F.A. program for writers at Warren Wilson college.
  BARON WORMSER is the author of three books of poetry.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

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