CONTRIBUTORS

1 9 2 Y C O N T R I B U T O R S DAVID BARBER is the author of two collections of poems, Wonder Cabinet and The Spirit Level. He is poetry editor of The Atlantic and teaches in the Harvard Writing Program. NATHANIEL BELLOWS is the author of Why Speak? Poems (W. W. Norton), On This Day: A Novel (HarperCollins), and a novelin -stories, Nan (Harmon Blunt Publishers ). He is at work on a forthcoming collection , Eye Exam. He lives in New York City. STEPHEN BURT is professor of English at Harvard University and the author of several books of poems and of literary criticism and scholarship, including Belmont (2013); The Forms of Youth (2007); and, with David Mikics, The Art of the Sonnet (2010). ROBERTO CALASSO is an Italian writer and publisher who in 1995 became chairman of the publishing firm Adelphi Edizioni, where he has worked since 1962. His books include The Ruin of Kasch, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, Ka, and Ardore. Literature and the Gods is based on his 1999–2000 Weidenfeld Lectures at Oxford . His essay in this issue is from The Art of the Publisher, translated by Richard Dixon , forthcoming this fall from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. AARON FAGAN is the author of two collections of poems, Garage and Echo Train (Salt Publishing, London, 2010). He has held editorial positions at Poetry and Scientific American. He lives in Connecticut . LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI, poet, playwright, publisher, and activist, is an essential voice in the Beat generation in San Francisco and co-founder of City Lights bookstore. His collections of poems include A Coney Island of the Mind, Endless Life: Selected Poems, and These Are My Rivers: New and Selected Poems, 1955–1993. Poetry as Insurgent Art was published in 2005. Writing Across the Landscape, from which ‘‘Russian Winter Journal’’ is taken, will be published by W. W. Norton this fall. WILLIAM GASS, novelist, essayist, and former philosophy professor, is author of Omensetter’s Luck, The Tunnel, and Middle C (novel), as well as, among others, the essay collections Habitations of the Word, Finding a Form, and Tests of Time. He is professor emeritus at Washington University , where he founded the International Writers Center. STEPHEN GIBSON is the author of four collections of poems, including Paradise, Frescoes, Masaccio’s Expulsion, and Rorschach Art (Red Hen, 2001). His latest collection , ‘‘Rorschach Art Too,’’ was recently awarded the Donald Justice Poetry Prize from West Chester University. DANIEL HALL, the Writer-in-Residence at Amherst College, is the author of three collections of poems, Hermit with Landscape , Strange Relation, and Under Sleep. The first was selected for the Yale Series of Younger Poets; Strange Relation for the National Poetry Series in 1996. MARK KRAUSHAAR’s most recent collection of poems, The Uncertainty Principle (Way- C O N T R I B U T O R S 1 9 3 R wiser) was chosen by James Fenton as the winner of the Anthony Hecht Prize. An earlier collection, Falling Brick Kills Local Man, was published by the University of Wisconsin Press. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in AGNI, The Antioch Review, and Mudfish. HAILEY LEITHAUSER is the author of Swoop (Graywolf, 2013) and is at work on a new collection of poems. Recent work has appeared or will soon appear in Copper Nickel,TheCincinnatiReview,TheGettysburg Review, Poetry, and Best American Poetry 2014 and 2015. PRIMO LEVI (1919–1987) was an Italian Jewish novelist, poet, and memoirist. Trained as a chemist, he was arrested during World War II for his resistance work and deported to Auschwitz in 1944. His writings include If This Is a Man (U.S.: Survival in Auschwitz ), Moments of Reprieve, The Periodic Table, If Not Now, When?, Other People ’s Trades, and The Mirror Maker. His essay in this issue is from Other People’s Trades, translated by Anthony Shugaar, in The Complete Works of Primo Levi, edited by Ann Goldstein, forthcoming from Liveright Publishing Corporation. JEAN McGARRY is the author of many novels and fiction collections, including Ocean State, published by the Johns Hopkins University Press, and Blue Boy, a novella about art and its devotees. ERIC McHENRY...