Editor's Note

EDITOR'S NOTE A reminder that poetry, fiction, and contributions for the special supplement in the next issue (Marxism and Utopia) should be submitted by January 1 S. David Peck is compiling a supplement to his bibliography of "The New Marxist Criticism ," which appeared in the Spring/Fall 1974 issue of The Minnesota Review. Any1 readers knowing of items missed in that first bibliography, or items that have appeared since then, please send them to: David Peck, English Department, California State University , Long Beach, California 90840. Literature and Ideology and Alive Magazine have merged into Alive Magazine: Literature and Ideology and now publish in a newspaper format poems, reviews, critical articles , political statements, etc. Information at: P.O. Box 133, Guelph, Ontario, Canada. A statement announcing the start of a new magazine, The Cultural Worker, arrived recently. It is looking for "ideologically aggressive" material, both creative and critical. "Random sighs of compassion for the oppressed and poor are not enough. Disillusionment with government is not enough." I don't think they've put out an issue yet, but they can be reached at: 49 South Prospect Street, Amherst, Massachusetts 01002. Book source. A good way to get basic·Marxist books on the arts, by Lukács, Morawski , Jameson, Baxandall, and others, is to write: Green Mountain, 462 North Main Street, Oshkosh, Wisconsin 54901. Ask for their catalog. Green Mountain will also be making The Minnesota Review available to a larger public. David Craig and Nigel Gray are co-editors of a new quarterly, Fireweed, which Craig describes as a magazine of "socialist and working class arts." Copies haven't reached here yet but can probably be gotten from Craig at the University of Lancaster, Lancaster, England. No. 2 is due in mid August. It's no surprise that the big presses are cutting back their already token poetry and fiction publication, but it sure is depressing to read it in cold type. See "Publishing Cutbacks " in Coda 2, no. 7 (June/July 197S): 5-7. Did you know that we had a "heyday of poetry" in the late sixties: An editor at Harper & Row apparently said that. Considering what's on the horizon, that's the way it will look. Those of you who had some affection for the late Alan Swallow will weep to learn that Swallow is cutting out the publication of poetry altogether. Or, Oxford has just published a 56 page book of poems, Prehistories by Peter Scupham, which sells for $6.25. In paper! The strange thing is that fiction hardly fares better. Little presses which got started as places of alternative viewpoints inside the world of books and magazines, look like they11 have to absorb the whole enterprise. Literature itself will be the alternative. R.M. ...