Contributors

167 CONTRIBUTORS Marjorie Agosin, a Chilean poet, is the author of three books of poetry and also a book of criticism on Bombai, Las desterradas del paraíso protagonistas en la narrativa de Maria Luisa Bombai (New York: Senda Nueva de Ediciones, 1983) and numerous articles on Latin American literature. She is presently assistant professor of Spanish at Wellesley College. Maureen Ahem, associate professor of Spanish at Arizona State University, co-edited Peru The New Poetry (1970) and, with William Rowe and David Tipton, translated two earlier collections of Cisneros' poems in The Spider Hangs Too Far From The Ground (1970) and Helicopters in the Kingdom ofPeru (1981). She has published semiotic analyses of David Huerta's poetry in Eco (1982) and Semiosis (1983). She currently directs the new Translation Certificate program and the Spanish Graduate Program at ASU. Jim Barnes edits The Chariton Review at Northeast Missouri State University, where he is an associate professor of comparative literature . His most recent volume of poems is TAe American Book ofthe Dead (University of Illinois Press, 1982). David M. Bergeron is professor of English at the University of Kansas. He is the author of English Civic Pageantry 1558-1642, Pageantry in the Shakespearean Theater, and Shakespeare's Romances and the Royal Family. He is also editor of Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama. Antonio Cisneros, born in Lima, Peru, in 1942, has published eight books of poetry that have won him international recognition as one of Latin America's foremost poets. At Night The Cats, forthcoming from Red Dust, Inc. in 1985, collects all his major poems from 1962-1982 in English translation by Maureen Ahem, David Tipton, and William Rowe. David Huerta, born in Mexico City in 1949, has published five collections of poems: Eljardín de la luz (1972); Cuaderno de noviembre (1976); Huellas del civilizado (1977); Versión (1978); and El espejo del cuerpo (1980). He has received a Guggenheim fellowship and is coeditor of La Mesa Llena, a literary magazine. John E. Loftis is professor of English at the University of Northern Colorado, where he has taught since 1970. He received his Ph.D. from Emory University in 1971 and has previously published in Neophilologus , the South Carolina Review, and Notes on Contemporary Literature as well as RMRLL. 168Rocky Mountain Review George Peters is a professor of German at the University of New Mexico and co-director of the German Summer School of New Mexico in Taos. He is currently working on a book dealing with Heine's transformation of Goethean models. Scott Sanders is the Director of Professional Writing in the English Department at the University of New Mexico. He has published poems in many journals, has been a poet for the Colorado Poets in the Schools project, and has edited for the New Mexico Bureau of Mines. David Tipton is a British poet. He has translated various Peruvian poets into English and has edited a selection in Peru The New Poetry (1976). Recent books of his own poetry are Nomads and Settlers (1980) and War ofthe Roses (1984). He is general editor of Rivelin Grapheme Press (Bradford & London), which publishes Latin American literature and new English and American writers. Jack Weiner (Ph.D., Indiana University, 1968), teaches Spanish language and literature at Northern Illinois University (Dekalb). His areas of research are Spanish Medieval and Golden Age literature and Hispano-Russian literary and cultural relations. ...