NOTES
RONALD SUKENICK's 98.6, the novel from which " Palestine" is taken ,
will be published by the Fiction Collective in April. . . . LEONARD
MICHAELS' new novel , I Would Have Saved Them if I Could , will be
published by Farrar, Straus
&
Giroux in May. Meanwhile, he is growing a
moustache.. .. ROBERT BLY writes a column for The American Poetry
Review.. . . Two Citizens is JAMES WRIGHT's latest book.... JOHN
ASHBERY is a member of the creative writing faculty at Brooklyn
College . His new collection of poems , Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, is
coming from Viking in May.... MEl BERSSENBRUGGE was born in
Peking and grew up in New England . Her first book Summits Move with
the Tide, was put out by the Greenfield Review Press in 1974. . ..
Currently on leave of absence from teaching , ARTHUR E. SMITH is
conducting poetry workshops for grammar school children and complet–
ing a volume of poems.. . . ROBERT K. MARTIN lives in Montreal ,
where he teaches at Concordia University . ... LEONARD KRIEGEL is at
the City College of New York. "Going Home" is the first chapter of a book
in progress entitled Last Stop on the D Train... . NEIL SCHMITZ is
teaching this year at the University of Sussex in the American Studies
program . .. . PHILIP STEVICK teaches at Temple University and lives in
Bucks Coun ty . . .. GEORGE STADE tells us that the most harrowing
thing to happen to him recently is that he moved.... JAMES JOLL is
Stevenson Professor of International History at the London School of
Economics. A revised edition of his The Second International , first
published twenty years ago , appeared in 1975. .. . WILLIAM WALLING
is working on something he intends to call The Second Trumpet: The
French Revolution and English Romanticism . . . . NORMAN MAILER's
preface to The Joker was recently published in a new edition of Jean
Malaquais' novel ; and though it is not our usual policy to reprint work , we
agree with Mr. Mailer that there are special reasons for running his piece .
In addition to the particular interest of the preface , the book has received
so little notice that few of our readers are likely to have read it.
The poems in th is issue were selected by Paul Zweig .
We are sorry that Richard Locke's name was mistakenly left off the list of
the Rockefeller Conference participants which appeared in Issue #4 ,
1974.
