CONTRIBUTORS
SERGEI DOVLATOV, who emigrated from the Soviet Union in
1978, is the well-known author of
The Compromise
and the novel
The Zone,
forthcoming from Alfred A. Knopf.... Senior Research
Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, LESZEK KOLAKOWSKI is a
faculty member of the Committee on Social Thought at the Uni–
versity of Chicago. ... ENRIQUE KRAUZE is an editor of
Vuelta ,
the Mexican cultural publication.... FRANK KERMODE presently
teaches at Columbia University. His new book,
Forms of Atten–
tion,
will be published this year by Chicago University Press....
Professor of Sociology at New York University, DENNIS WRONG
is currently a Guggenheim Fellow....
Midsummer,
DEREK WAL–
COTT's latest volume of poems, was brought out last year by
Farrar, Straus,
&
Giroux. . .. Persea Books recently issued LES
MURRAY's collection of poems,
The Vernacular Republic....
The
distinguished French poet YVES BONNEFOY holds the Chair of
Poetics at the College de France. His book,
Poems 1956-1976,
translated by Richard Pevear, has just been published by Alfred
A. Knopf.... LISA SAPINKOPF won the Columbia Translation
Center Award in 1983 for her translation of Yves Bonnefoy's long
poem,
Dans Ie leurre du seuil. .. .
RACHEL HADAS's most recent
work is
Form, Cycle, Infinity
(Bucknell University Press), a critical
study of Robert Frost and George Seferis.... STUART DISCHELL
is about to publish a volume of poems... . Writer-in-Residence
at Wheaton College, SUE STANDING is the author of
Decep–
tion
Pass, a collection of poems issued last year by Alice James
Books.... MICHAEL MOTT's latest book of poems is
Counting
the
Grasses (Anhinga Press). He is the author of the biography,
The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton
(Houghton Mifflin, 1984).
. . . Several of JUDITH BERKE's poems will appear in the forth–
coming anthology
Woman Poet: The South
(Women in Literature,
Inc.).... FRANK J. NISETICH is working on a translation of Eurip–
ides's
Orestes,
to be brought out by Oxford University Press.
. . . JANE MAYHALL is completing a new volume of poems....
GIDEON TELPAZ is the author of
Israeli Childhood Stories of the
Sixties
(Scholar's Press, California).. . . WILLIAM STYRON's
latest work is
Sophie's Choice
(Random House).... Professor of
English at Columbia University, GEORGE STADE is the author of
the novel,
Confessions of
a
Lady-killer
(W.
W. Norton). ... MORRIS
DICKSTEIN teaches English at Queens College.. . . BARBARA
PROBST SOLOMON is now working on a new novel and a collec-
tion of essays.... PICO IYER is a staff writer on world affairs at
Time
Magazine.... SIDNEY MONAS teaches at the University of
Texas at Austin and is about to assume the editorship of the
Slavic Review. . ..
MARJORIE WELISH is an art critic who lives in
New York City. . .. DAVID LEHMAN is the editor of
Beyond Amaze-
ment: New
Essays
on John Ashbery
and coeditor of
James Mer–
rill:
Essays
in Cri ticism
(both from Cornell University Press). . ..
ALAIN ARIAS·MISSON writes on American and European fiction.
This issue of
Partisan Review
was partially funded by support
from the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities.
