1975-VOLUME XLlI- NUMBER 1
CONTENTS
ARTICLES
A
Preface to The Joker
Norman Mailer
9
Soviet Dissenters :
Solzhenitsyn , Sakharov, Medvedev
Vadim BelotserkoYsky
35
Poetry and Politics
An Interview with Philip Levine
Arthur E. Smith
69
Whitman 's Song of Myself
Robert K. Martin
80
Going Home
Leonard Kriegel
97
Describing the Demon
The Appeal of Thomas Pynchon
Neil Schmitz
112
STORIES
Palestine
Ronald Sukenick
23
Hello Jack
Leonard Michaels
30
POEMS
Ant Heaps on the Road
Robert Bly
60
Winds
60
Names
61
Saying Dante Aloud
James Wright
61
Written on
a
Big Cheap Postcard
from Verona
62
The Lonely Poet
64
The Art of the Bayonet
65
Farm II
John Ashbery
66
The Membrane
Mei Berssenbrugge
67
Ghosts
Anne Hussey
68
