Contributors' Notes

MASTHEAD

Directors

DeWitt Henry

Peter O'Malley

Coordinating Editor for This Issue

Alan Williamson

Managing Editor

Joyce Peseroff

CONTRIBUTORS

STEVEN ABLON is a psychoanalyst, and is on the faculty of the Harvard Medical School. This is his first publication as a poet since college.

PAUL BRESLIN teaches at Northwestern University. His poems have appeared in
Poetry, Canto, and
The Georgia Review; he is at work on a book on contemporary American poetry.

JOHN CASEY is the author of
An American Romance and
Testimony and Demeanor. He teaches at the University of Virginia.

ALFRED CORN'S latest book is
The Various Light. The poems in this issue come from a group commissioned by art critic and dealer John Bernard Myers, to be printed in a limited edition later this year, with the title
Tongues on Trees. Salmo gardneri is the species name for rainbow trout;
nous (Greek) means Mind, in the philosophical sense.

For the past seven years CLAYTON ESHLEMAN has been doing research on what he calls "paleolithic imagination and the construction of the under-world." First fruits of that work are
Hades in Manganese (Black Sparrow Press, 1981), and a set of poems done in the French Dordogne in the fall of 1980, from which these three pieces come. A long poem,
Visions of the Fathers of Lascaux, will be published this fall by Cadmus Editions.

ALLEN GROSSMAN teaches at Brandeis University. His latest book is
The Woman on the Bridge over the Chicago River (New Directions, 1979).

RACHEL HADAS is the author of
Starting from Troy (Godine), and is now a doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature at Princeton.

MARK HALLIDAY is a graduate student at Brandeis University, and has completed a book manuscript of poems. The full text of his conversations with Allen Grossman will be published this fall by Rowan Tree Press.

RALPH HAMILTON'S work has often been featured in
Ploughshares.

LANGDON HAMMER studied with Alfred Corn and John Hollander at Yale. His work has appeared in
The Yale Review.

PETER KLAPPERT won the Yale Younger Poets award for
Lugging Vegetables to Nantucket. The Idiot Princess will be published later this year by Alfred A. Knopf. Klappert teaches at George Mason University.

MARGO LOCKWOOD is the author of
Temper (Alice James). She has spent the last year in Dublin.

The eminent French poet ROBERT MARTEAU was born in 1925 in a logging village of Charente, and now lives in Montreal. A selection of his poems,
Salamander, translated by Anne Winters, is published by Princeton.

GAIL MAZUR is the author of
Nightfire (Godine); she was the coordinating editor of
Ploughshares 6/2.

J. D. MCCLATCHY'S collection of poems,
Scenes from Another Life, has recently been published by Braziller.

JAMES MCMICHAEL teaches at Irvine. His long poem
Four Good Things was published last year by Houghton Mifflin.

JAMES MERRILL most recent book is
Scripts for the Pageant.

MICHAEL PARISH is a lawyer with a Wall Street firm. This is his first appearance as a poet.

MIODRAG PAVLOVIC, born in 1928, is often considered one of the three leading contemporary Yugoslavian poets. The translators worked from the French translation by Robert Marteau,
La Voix sous la pierre (Gallimard), with many corrections and suggestions from Charles Simic, to whom they are deeply grateful.

JOHN PECK'S second book,
The Broken Blockhouse Wall, was published by Godine in 1978. The poems printed here belong to a new sequence, "Tales from Mummelsee"; "The Vigil of Parmenides" appeared in England in
Agenda.

JOYCE PESEROFF'S book,
The Hardness Scale, was published by Alice James in 1977.

ROBERT POLITO teaches English at Wellesley. He had two poems in
Ploughshares 5/2.

JAMES RICHARDSON is the author of
Reservations; he teaches at Princeton.

LLOYD SCHWARTZ'S first book,
These People, will be published in October by Wesleyan University Press.

ALAN SHAPIRO teaches at Northwestern. His chapbook of narrative poems,
After the Digging, is coming out with Elpenor Press; he is looking for a publisher for his first full-length book of poems.

ELEANOR ROSS TAYLOR is the author of
Wilderness of Ladies and
Welcome Eumenides. Her third book,
The Ribbon to Norwood, will be published this year by Braziller.

RICHARD TILLINGHAST'S second book,
The Knife, was published last year by Wesleyan. "Sewanee in Ruins" is appearing serially in
Ploughshares, and, simultaneously, in a limited edition published by The University Press, Sewanee, Tennessee. Tillinghast is a Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in English at Harvard.

DIANE WAKOSKI was born in California in 1937, has a degree from UC, Berkeley, and has published thirteen collections of poems, the most recent being
Cap of Darkness (Black Sparrow Press), along with one book of essays and interviews,
Toward a New Poetry (University of Michigan Press).

ELIZABETH WATERHOUSE has spent the last year working for a publishing house in London. She had a poem in
Ploughshares 5/3.

RICHARD WERTIME teaches English at Beaver College in Glenside, Pennsylvania. His story "The Paper Boy" appeared last year in
The Hudson Review; he is at work on a collection of short stories.

ALAN WILLIAMSON is Fannie Hurst Lecturer in English at Brandeis. His recent poems and translations may be found in
The Paris Review, The New Republic, Poetry, Canto, and
Sulfur.

ANNE WINTERS is the translator of
Salamander: Selected Poems of Robert Marteau (Princeton). She has completed an unpublished novel,
An Iron Year, excerpted here. She is now working on a group of poems about New York City, for which she has recently received a grant from the Ingram Merrill Foundation.