CONTRIBUTORS
The Witness of Poetry
by
CZESLAW MILOSZ
will
be
published by Harvard Uni–
versity Press.. ..
PETER
L.
BERGER
is a University Professor at Boston Uni–
versity.. . .
SERGEI DOVLATOV,
whose second book in English,
The Compro–
mise,
will appear this fall , emigrated from the Soviet Union to the United States
in 1978.. . . A faculty member at Princeton University,
JOYCE CAROL OATES
is midway through her quartet of " nineteenth-century" genre novels, the latest
being A
Bloodsmoor Romance. .. .
EDITH KURZWEIL,
executive editor of
Partisan Review
and currently on leave from Rutgers University, frequently
writes about European intellectuals and politics. . ..
JEFFREY HERF,
who has
just completed a book on Weimar and the Third Reich, teaches in the Commit–
tee on Degrees in Social Studies at Harvard University.... Distinguished pro–
fessor of English at Indiana University,
PHILIP APPLEMAN
has had poems in
numerous journals, including
TriQuarterly,
the
Yale Review,
and the
New
Republic,
and is now working on his fourth collection. . . . Among
WILLIS
BARNSTONE's
books are two collections of poems, A
Day in the Country
and
China Poems,
and a prose work on Borges. . . .
DAVID
ST.
JOHN
is finishing a
third volume of poems called
The Swan
at
Sheffield Park. . . .
Poetry editor at
Faber and Faber,
CRAIG RAINE
is the author of
The Onion, Memory,
which won
the Kelus Prize for Poetry, and A
Martian Sends
a
Postcard Home,
winner of the
Southern Arts Literature Award. ...
EUGENE GOODHEART,
whose last book
was
The Failure of Criticism,
teaches English at Boston University.. . .
KENWORTH MOFFETT
is curator of twentieth-century art at the Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston, and the author of a study of Jules Olitski. .. . Professor of
English at SUNY College at Brockport,
PHILIP L. GERBER
has written widely
on American literature. .. .
JACK C. WOLF
is associate professor of English at
SUNY College at Brockport; his most recent work is
Hart Crane's Harp of
Evil. . ..
JOHN SIMON,
film critic for the
National Review
and drama critic for
New
York
Magazine, has completed a new book on foreign films entitled Some–
thing
to
Declare . .. .
Associate dean of Columbia College ,
MICHAEL
ROSENTHAL
is the author of a critical work on Virginia Woolf and is finishing a
study of Lord Baden-Powell and the British Boy Scout movement. . . .
ALAN
RYAN
teaches at New College, Oxford, and is at work on a study of Bertrand
Russell's politics.. . .
MARIANNE DEKOVEN's
study of Gertrude Stein, A
Dif–
ferent Language,
will be published in May.. . .
HAYDEN WHITE
is professor of
the history of consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the
author of
Metahistory
and
Tropics of Discourse.
This issue of
Partisan Review
was partially funded by a grant from the
Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities.