Poetry from WESLEYAN
Lliht and Dark
BARBARA HOWES
Perceptive and thoughtfullyr–
ics by the author of
The
Un–
dersea Farmer
and
In the Cold
Country,
winner of a Guggen–
heim Fellowship and a Hokin
Prize. "The most accom–
plished woman poet of the
youngest writing generation."
Apples from Shlnar
HYAM PLUTZIK
-LOUISE BOGAN
The distillate of ten years'
work since
Aspects 01 Proteus
-some thirty lyrics plus a long
poem, "The Shepherd," of
striking imaginative power.
"A
solidly good poet, who has
many of the virtues of Robin–
son."-RICHARD WILBUR
ADream of Governors
LOUIS SIMPSON
Poems, lyric and narrative,
that present the experience of
the postwar generation in fin–
ished works of art, by the au–
thor of
Good News 01 Death.
"He has a personal irony, an
easy and natural lyric charm,
that are rare today."
Saint Judas
JAMES WRIGHT
-RANDALL JARRELL
Everyday living in the Middle
West supplies the point of de–
parture for these forthright
and moving verses. "That rare
poet who can achieve the
'common in experience -
Ull–
common in writing' that Rob–
ert Frost has asked for."
-Saturday Review
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CONTRIBUTORS
NORMAN MAILER's new book,
Advertisements for Myself, will be
published this Fall by Putnam.
LIONEL ABEL's play, Absalom,
will be put out in a paper edition
by Grove Press in February.
LOUIS KRONENBERGER, the well–
known critic and essayist, is a mem–
ber of the New York Drama Critics
Circle.
JOHN HENRY RALEIGH is in the
English Department of the Univer–
sity of California in Berkeley.
ROBERT BRUSTEIN has written on
the theater for many publications.
He teaches in the Graduate School
of Engliih at Columbia University.
A.
ALVAREZ, PR's London corres–
pondent, is now the drama critic
for the New Statesman.
GORE VIDAL is reviewing plays
this year for The Reporter and has
just written the movie version of
Tennessee Williams's Garden Dis–
trict.
HAROLD CLURMAN's new pro–
duction of Heartbreak House hos
just opened ot the Billy Rose Theo–
ter.
ANGUS WILSON, author of Anglo–
Saxon Attitudes ond other novels,
has been reviewing ploys for the
London Observer.
NICOLA CHIAROMONTE, co–
editor of Tempo Presente, writes
frequently on the theater for Itolion
publications.
