Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS LAURIEN ALEXANDRE is finishing a doctorate in Comparative Culture at CaliforniaIrvine . BERT ALMON lives in Edmonton, Alberta and is now working on a book about immigration and expatriation. JACK ANDERSON is the author of 7Ae Invention ofNew Jersey. DONALD BAKER teaches at Wabash College. LEE BAXANDALL runs Green Mountain Editions from Oshkosh, Wisconsin. WILLIAM BOELHOWER lives in Venice. BERTOLT BRECHT smoked cigars and wore his hair short. PAUL BUHLE is editor of Cultural Correspondence. DAVID CITINO is the author of Last Rites and Other Poems. JOAN COLBY's most recent books are Dream Tree (Jump River Press) and Blue Woman Dancing in the Nerve (Alembic Press). GERALD COSTANZO edits Three Rivers Poetry Journal. MARK DEFOE has recent poems in Sewanee Review, Adena, and North American Review. H. BRUCE FRANKLIN'S two most recent books are 7"Ae Victim as Criminal and Artist: Literaturefrom the American Prison and Robert A. Heinlein: America as Science Fiction. ERICA HARTH is the author of Cyrano de Bergerac and the Polemics of Modernity. HAROLD JAFFE is co-director of Fiction CoUective. His collection of short fiction, Mourning Crazy Horse, wiU be out this spring. DAVID JAMES works for Siena Heights College in Michigan. M. KASPER has had work in MR before. She or he lives in Massachusetts. GAYLORD LEROY is the author of the forthcoming Capitalist Debacle and Renewal in the Arts: Elements ofMarxist Methodology for Literary Study. GARY MARGOLIS teaches at Middlebury College. NORMAN MARKOWITZ is the author of 7Ae Rise and Fall of the People's Century: Henry A. Wallace and American Liberalism, 1941-1948. MARK McCLOSKEY lives in California. JOHN McCLURE's Kipling and Conrad: The ColonialFiction was published this fall. ED OCHESTER has just published A Drift of Swine. PETER ORESICK is a poet from Pittsburg. FRED PFEIL, lucky devil, is MR's next editor. CAROL REMES teaches English at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. JUDITH ROMAN is writing a dissertation on Annie Fields at Indiana University. LEON S. ROUDIEZ teaches French and comparative literature at Columbia. He is the author of Michel Butor and French Fiction Today. NORMAN RUDICH teaches at Wesleyan University. VERN RUTSALA Uves in Oregon. LINDA SALADIN is in Paris working on a dissertation in comparative literature. JAMES SCHEVILL is about to publish a long sequence of poems called The American Fantasies. PAT SCHNEIDER has had recent acceptances from Connecticut Quarterly, A Review, and SwiftRiver. JAMES SCULLY's most recent book is May Day, published by MRpress. KATHLEEN SPIVACK's latest book is Swimmer in the Spreading Dawn. LEE STERRENBERG teaches at Indiana University. BRIAN SWANN has often appeared in MR. MARGOT TREITEL spent two years teaching in Nigeria. Others of her Algeria poems have appeared in Centennial Review and Denver Quarterly. TOM WAYMAN is quite familiar to readers of MR. NOTES In MS 15 (Fall 1980) we neglected to indicate that Rocco Scotellaro's The City is Killing Me" was translated by Ruth Feldman and Brian Swann. Many apologies. Well, gang, this is the end of editing MR for me. For months I have planned various gracious or raucous farewells. I started an essay, I thought ofa poem, I drew up a list of the contributors over the eight and a half years IVe been at it. But none of it made as much sense as wishing Fred Pfeil and friends well in keeping it going. These are the worst of times for progressive esthetics of any kind and the worst of times, too, for publishing and mailing a magazine. If you are still listening after all these years of trial and error, keep listening. This is going to be a first-rate magazine. Many people have helped me with MR, but I want to thank a few whose help at different times quite literally kept it from collapsing: Kathleen Wiegner, Fredric Jameson, Martha Bergland, David Peck, Scott Sanders, Susan Thompson, Jim Scully. ...