Contributors' Notes

MASTHEAD

Coordinating Editor for This Issue

M. L. Rosenthal

Executive Director

DeWitt Henry

Managing Editor / Associate Fiction Editor

Don Lee

Poetry Editor for This Issue

Jennifer Rose

Associate Poetry Editor

Joyce Peseroff

Assistant Editor

David Daniel

Editorial Assistant

Jessica Dineen

Founding Publisher

Peter O'Malley

Staff: Kevin Supples and Margaret Bezucha.
Editorial Interns: Sandra McLeod and Jennifer Hill.
Typesetting: Gian Lombardo and InText Publishing Services.
Poetry Readers: Rafael Campo, Tom Laughlin, Sandra Yannone, Bill Keeney, Karen Voelker, Doina Iliescu, Ed Charbonnier, Renee Rooks, Bethany Pappalardo, and Andrea Cohen.
Fiction Readers: Billie Ingram, Sara Neilsen Gambrill, Karen Wise, Win Pescosolido, Kai Maristed, and Kathryn Herold.

CONTRIBUTORS

Dannie Abse's collected poems, 1948-1988,
White Coat, Purple Coat, has just been published by Persea Books in the U.S.A. He was born in Wales but is presently living in London, where he edited
The Hutchinson Book of Post-War British Poets (1989).

William Arrowsmith has translated Eugenio Montale's
The Storm and Other Things and
The Occasions; his version of Montale's
Cuttlefish Bones will be published by W.W. Norton later this year. In 1990 he received the Premio Eugenio Montale Internazionale for his versions of Montale and other modern Italian poets. He is Professor of Classics and University Professor at Boston University.

Stephen Berg's
Selected Poems is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press. His poetry has appeared recently in
Cimarron Review, Kenyon Review, Threepenny Review, Missouri Review, Passages North, Family, and
The Denver Quarterly. His most recent books are
In It and
Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyu.

Charles Bernstein's most recent collections of poetry are
Rough Trades, The Nude Formalism (designed by Susan Bee), and
The Sophist, from Sun and Moon. He edited
The Politics of Poetic Form: Poetry and Public Policy (Roof Books) and is David Gray Professor of Poetry and Letters at SUNY-Buffalo.

Eavan Boland has recently published
Outside History: Poems 1980-1990 with W.W. Norton and is working on a book of essays.

Philip Booth's first book,
Letter From a Distant Land, was the 1956 Lamont Poetry Selection, published, like his seven books since, by Viking. Only
Relations (1986) and
Selves (1990) are still available. The "Fragments" in this issue are the first of his notes or drafts to have appeared in print.

Terrence Culver is an artist who lives in New York City.

Robert Dana is the author of several books of poetry, including
Starting Out for the Difficult World (Harper & Row, 1987). His work received the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award for Poetry in 1989. New work will shortly appear in
Manoa, Shenandoah, and
Poetry; and
What I Think I Know: New & Selected Poems will be published this May by Another Chicago Press.

Frederick Feirstein's fourth book of poems,
Family History, was published by the
Quarterly Review of Literature. His fifth,
City Life, was published in 1991 by Story Line. Feirstein has been a Guggenheim fellow in poetry and a Rockefeller OADR fellow in playwriting. He's a psychoanalyst in private practice in Manhattan.

Sally M. Gall is collaborating on a children's musical with Emmy Award-winning composer Dave Conner and on an adult opera with composer Susan Bingham. Her poems have appeared in such journals as
Southern Review, Humanist, and
Confrontation, and her critical books have been published by Oxford, Missouri, and Persea.

Tess Gallagher will publish two new books of poems in 1992:
Moon-Crossing Bridge in the spring with Graywolf Press and
Portable Kisses in the summer with Capra Press. Her most recent book is
Amplitude: New and Selected Poems, also from Graywolf. She has written an introduction to a book of photographs from Scribners entitled
Carver Country on her late husband Raymond Carver's work. She is at work on a novel and lives in Port Angeles, Washington.

Rachel Hadas's most recent book is
Living in Time, a collection of essays wrapped around a long poem (Rutgers University Press, 1990). The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in poetry and an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, she teaches at the Newark campus of Rutgers University. Donald Hall published his
Old and New Poems in the summer of 1990. In 1988, he did his book-length poem,
The One Day, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Award in 1989.

Sam Hamill's most recent book is
A Poet's Work, essays (Broken Moon Press, 1990). Shambhala will publish his translations of Japanese poems,
Only Companion, and a new translation of Basho's
Trail to the Interior (Oku no hosomichi). He is the editor of Copper Canyon Press.

William Harmon is Professor of English at UNC Chapel Hill. He is the author of
Treasury Holiday, Legion: Civic Choruses, and
Mutatis Mutandis (Wesleyan),
One Long Poem (LSU), and
The Intussusception of Miss Mary America (Kayak). He edited
The Oxford Book of American Light Verse, Macmillan's
Handbook to Literature, and
The Concise Columbia Book of Poetry. His first book of poems won the Lamont Award, and his fifth collection received the William Carlos Williams Award.

William Heyen is Professor of English and Poet-in-Residence at SUNY College at Brockport. In 1991 and 1992 a new publisher, Timeless Press, located in Missouri, will publish his
Pterodactyl Rose: Poems of Ecology, The Host: Selected Poems 1965-90, and
The Green Gate: Essays on Poetry and Ecology.

Brenda Hillman teaches at St. Mary's College in Moraga, California.
Death Tractates will be published next year by Wesleyan. She is working on
Bright Existence, also forthcoming from Wesleyan.

Peter Hughes was born in Canada and now lives in both the U.S. and Switzerland, where he teaches at the University of Zurich. His most recent book is
V. S. Naipaul (Routledge, 1988), and he is currently completing a study of literary allusion.

Galway Kinnell spends half the year in New York City, where he teaches in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at NYU, and half the year in Vermont, where he is State Poet. His latest collection of poems,
When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone, came out last October.

Thomas Kinsella was born in Dublin in 1928. Besides books from Dolmen Press, Dublin, in association with Oxford University Press, and from Wake Forest University Press, he has published translations from the Irish, including the Iron-Age prose epic
The Tain (1969) and
Poems of the Dispossessed 1600-1900 (1981). He also edited the
New Oxford Book of Irish Verse, with all new translations from the Irish in 1986.

John Montague is Distinguished Professor and Writer-in-Residence at the New York State Writers' Institute. His most recent publications are
Mount Eagle, poetry from Wake Forest University Press (1988);
The Figure in the Cave, essays from Syracuse University Press (1989); and
Bitter Harvest, an anthology of recent Irish poetry from Scribners (1989). A book of prose and poetry,
Brooklyn Born, is due from White Pine Press in 1991.

George Myers, Jr., has published poetry, essays, and fiction in many periodicals, including
The Quarterly and
New American Writing. His newest book of poems,
Worlds Without End, was published by Another Chicago Press in 1990. He lives in Ohio, where he is book critic for
The Columbus Dispatch.

Molly Peacock's latest volume of poetry is
Take Heart (Random House, 1989). She is a learning specialist at Friends Seminary in New York City and serves as President of the Poetry Society of America.

Peter Redgrove is regarded as one of the leading British poets. Recent books of poetry include
Poems 1954-1987 (Penguin Books) and
The First Earthquake (Secker & Warburg). He has also published eight books of prose fiction; a study of science and poetry,
The Black Goddess (Paladin Books); and, with his wife Penelope Shuttle, the revolutionary study of the female fertility cycle,
The Wise Wound (Bantam Books).

David H. Rosenthal is the author of two books of poems,
Eyes on the Streets (Barlenmir House) and
Loves of the Poets (Persea), and has another,
Poemes, in press (Café Central, Barcelona). He is also a jazz and literary critic, a journalist, and a translator of Catalan and Portuguese literature.

Mark Rudman's most recent book of poetry is
The Nowhere Steps (Sheep Meadow Press). He is currently completing a book of essays on poetry called
Diverse Voices, to be published in 1992 by Story Line Press, and a translation of Euripides'
The Daughters of Troy, forthcoming from Oxford University Press. A companion essay to "Above and Below in Mexico" will be in
APR in the fall.

James Schevill's recent books are his
Collected Short Plays and two volumes of collected poems,
The American Fantasies and
Ambiguous Dancers of Fame, all published by The Swallow Press/Ohio University Press. His play,
Cathedral of Ice, was reprinted recently in the international anthology edited by Elinor Fuchs,
Plays of the Holocaust, published by the Theatre Communications Group in New York.

Louis Simpson's most recent books are
Collected Poems, Selected Poems, and a collection of new poems,
In the Room We Share, all three from Paragon House. He is currently finishing a book of memoirs. He lives with his wife Miriam in Setauket, New York, and teaches at SUNY Stony Brook.

Peter Sirr was born in Waterford, Ireland, in 1960, and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He has published two collections,
Marginal Zones (1984) and
Talk, Talk (1987), both from Gallery Press, which will publish his third collection,
Ways of Falling, this summer. He lived in Holland for some years and now lives in Milan, Italy.

Jon Stallworthy has published seven books of poetry, most recently
The Anzac Sonata: New and Selected Poems (W.W. Norton, 1987); two critical studies of Yeats's poetry; and a prize-winning biography of Wilfred Owen (Oxford, 1974). He teaches at Oxford University and is a Fellow of the British Academy.

Abigail Stone has published in literary quarterlies and is included in the volume
Best Short Stories From The California Quarterly 1971-1985. Her novel
Maybe Its My Heart was published by Lincoln Springs Press. She received a 1989-1990 Vermont Council on the Arts grant. She lives in Middlebury, Vermont.

Charles Tomlinson's
Annunciations and
Collected Poems are available from Oxford, his
Selected from Exile Press, Toronto. His prose works include
Some Americans (University of California Press) and
Poetry and Metamorphosis (Cambridge). Also a painter, Tomlinson's graphics appear in
Eden (Redcliffe, Bristol). He has recently edited
Poems of George Oppen for Cloud, Newcastle upon Tyne.

Barry Wallenstein is the author of three collections of poetry:
Beast Is a Wolf With Brown Fire (BOA Editions, 1977),
Roller Coaster Kid (T.Y. Crowell, 1982), and
Love and Crush (forthcoming from Persea Books, 1991). He teaches literature and creative writing at the City University of New York and is also an editor of the journal
American Book Review. He has made two recordings of his poetry with jazz collaboration.

Theodore Weiss's most recent volume,
From Princeton One Autumn Afternoon: Collected Poems (Macmillan, 1988), won the Shelley Memorial Award in 1989. He has completed a new collection of poems,
A Sum of Destructions.

Anne Whitehouse is a poet, fiction writer, and freelance reviewer. Two short stories and an essay are forthcoming in
The American Voice and in
Buffalo Spree. She is completing a first novel,
Fall Love, and a first story collection,
Annals of the Spider House and Other Stories.