NOTES
WILLIAM GASS
teaches philosophy at Washington University in St.
Louis, while writing " long articles and small fictions" ...
NORMAN
BIRNBAUM
will be at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton next
year.... Professor of History at the University of Rochester,
CHRIS–
TOPHER LASCH's
most recent book is
The World of Nations.
He is now
working on a sociological and historical study of the family, which is due
to be published in the fall of 1976....
JULIET MITCHELL
lives in London
and is currently training at the Institute of Psycho-Analysis there. She is
the author of
Women's Estate
and
Psychoanalysis and Feminism .
...
Tales Told of the Fathers is JOHN HOLLANDER's
latest collection of
poems. His book on poetic form,
Vision and Resonance ,
was also just
published, and
a
new book,
Reflections on Espionage,
will be brought
out next year....
DOUGLAS CRASE
was formerly speechwriter for
Sander Levin, twice-unsuccessful Democratic candidate for governor of
Michigan. He is also the author of the 1969
Report
of the Democrats'
political reform commission in Michigan....
KENNETH KOCH
has just
published a book of poems,
The Art of Love,
and a novel ,
The Red
Robins .
He'll be on leave from Columbia University this next year, which
he'll spend in Venice and Paris.... Winner of the Frank O'Hara Award
for his collection of poems,
Domes , JOHN KOETHE's
most recent
collection of poetry is
A Long Lesson .
He is an assistant professor of
Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.. . .
KATE
FARRELL
is a student at Columbia University. ... Born in Montevideo,
Uruguay,
ROBERTO ECHAVARREN
has published mainly in Spanish.
He currently lives in New York and teaches Latin American literature at
York College....
KENWARD ELMSLlE
lives in the wilds of northern
Vermont , where he tends his garden (celtuce , cress, fava beans) , plays
tennis, and edits Z press books. His most recent works are a novel ,
The
Orchid Stories ,
and an opera libretto,
The Seagull.
A collection of his
poems,
Tropicalism,
will be published this fall .. .. Born in Brooklyn ,
DAVID SCHLOSS
now lives in Cincinnati and teaches poetry writing at
Miami University (Oxford, Ohio). His books of poems include
The
Beloved
and the forthcoming
Lazarus .
...
A. J. LlEHM
is teaching at
Queens College , CUNY... .
EDITH KURZWEIL
teaches sociology at
Montclair State College and is working on a book about French social
thought. ... Associate professor of English at Yale,
DAVID THORBURN
is the author of
Conrad's Romanticism
and co-editor (with Geoffrey
Hartman) of
Romanticism: Vistas, Instance, Continuities .
... After a
year in England,
NEIL SCHMITZ
is back teaching at the State Universityof
New York in Buffalo, while at work on a book on Whitman ....
RONALD
CHRIST
teaches English at Livingston College and is currently translat–
ing Borges' early film criticism....
GILBERT SORRENTINO
has re–
ceived a CAPS Fellowship for 1974-75.. .. Associate professor of
English at the University of Iowa,
DONALD MARSHALL
studied philos–
ophy in Paris under an
NEH
fellowship in 1973-74.
The poems for this issue were chosen by John Ashbery.
