New Mexico Quarterly Volume 23 | Issue 3 Article 1 1953 Full Issue University of New Mexico Press Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/nmq Recommended Citation University of New Mexico Press. "Full Issue." New Mexico Quarterly 23, 3 (1953). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/nmq/vol23/iss3/ 1 This Full Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the University of New Mexico Press at UNM Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in New Mexico Quarterly by an authorized editor of UNM Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. : Full Issue ART FEATURE, CLI'FFORD WRIGHT Benjamin De Mott The U.e. of the Rotherman. (.tory) Ray B. We.tl Jr. Per.onal Hi.tory and the Four Quartet. We.ley Ford Dayi. A Piney Wood. Idyll (.tory) Groyer Smith On Poets and Poetry POET SIGNATURE XVI I BOBB DAVIS 7S cent. AUTUMN 1953 S3 a year Published by UNM Digital Repository, 1953 1 New Mexico Quarterly, Vol. 23 [1953], Iss. 3, Art. 1 New Mexico Quarterly Volume XXIII. Autumn. 1953. Number 3 PUBLISHED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO ISSUED quarterly in Spring, Summer, Au­ EDITOR tumn and Winter, and printed at the KENNETH LASH University of New Mexico Printing Plant. I'OETRY EDITOR Entered as second-class matter February 6, JOHN DILLON HUSBAND 19~P, at the post office at Albuquerque, New Mexico. under the act of March 8, 1879. FOlfOlllAL ASSISTANT ROBERT WARRFN DASH Opinions expressed or implied by contribu­ tors do not necessarily reflect the views of ADVISORY COMMITTEE the editors or of the University of New GEORGE ARMS Mexico. LEZ HAAS Manuscripts not accompanied by self-ad­ LINCOLN LAPAZ WILLIAM J. PARISH dressed and stamped envelope cannot be re­ RAM6N J. SENDER turned. Articles and stories of moderate PAUL WALTER, JR. length preferred, not to exceed 4.000-5,000 words. 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As far as publish­ WESLEY FORD DAVIS, whose second ing books goes, it is largely true and published story appears in this issue, getting worse. But where magazines has recently had acceptances from are concerned. it is not true. There is Colliers and from Discovery. Mr. more space for good writing than Davis, who teaches English and The there is good writing to fill it. For Humanities at the University of Ar· verification, look closely at any liter­ kansas, has been awarded a Stanford ary magazine, including this one. Writing FellOWship for 1953-54. Where are all the good new voices? BENJAMIN DEMoTT's story, "The Yes, where are they? We receive at Sunflower Seeds," appeared in NMQ immense quantities of ma­ Spring 1953 NMQ. He has published terial, but thimblesfull of quality. It in Partisan Review, Western Review, is necessary to hoard good MSS. like New Directions Thirteen, et al. gold to get each issue together. Nor ROSE GRAUBART did the cover sym­ do we see a great deal of quality else­ bol. Her poem, "Sea Rocks," ap­ where, except for an occasional old peared in Winter 1952 NMQ. giant pacing off another step. SHERMAN PAUL is in the English Maybe after all these years the Department of the University of Illi­ myth needs reversing. Perhaps the nois. His book Emerson's Angle of great amount of available magazine Vision was published by Harvard space has answered the old question University Press in 1952. "\Vhat are the names of the fine un­ GROVER SMITH, now teaching at known voices among us?" The an­ Duke University, has published criti­ swer seems to be: Rumpelstiltskin. cism widely. His review, "An Interest in the Classics," appeared in Winter ~ CONTRIBUTORS 1952 NMQ. DAVID R. BUNCH has published sto­ GERALD WULES has had criticism ries in Perspective, Idiom and fantas­ published in The Hudson Review, tic worlds, verse in various publica­ The Quarterly of Film, Films in Re­ tions. He lives in St. Louis. view, et al. He is doing a book on \\'nTER BYNNER'S latest volume, modern religious drama in England. Journey with Genius, a prose account RAy B. WEST, JR. continues to edit of the D. H. Lawrences, published Western Review. 243 https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/nmq/vol23/iss3/1 4 : Full Issue IN COMING ISSUES OF NMQ STANLEY EDGAR HYMAN - Melville the Scrivener MILTON MILLER - Barren (story) NIALL MONTGOMERY - The PenJigilium Phoenicis (a memo on the method of James Joyce) GILBERT NEIMAN - The Double Cross: A Requiem for Simone de Beauvoir N M Q POETRY SELECTIONS - Constance Carrier, August Kadow, Gladys Seidelhuber, and others NMQ ART FEATURE - Josef Albers WANTED: BACK ISSUES OF NMQ VOL. II, NO. 1 (February, 1932) VOL. III, NO. I (February. 1933) For which NMQ will pay you in anyone of the following ways you prefer: 1) $2 per copy. 2) a one-year subscription for each copy. 3) an even trade for any other back issue. When and if ten copies of each of the issues is received by us. all bets are off. Address New Mexico Quarterly, University of New Mexico. Albuquerque. N.M. Published by UNM Digital Repository, 1953 5 New Mexico Quarterly, Vol. 23 [1953], Iss. 3, Art. 1 Contents ----------- ---~ -~----- STORIES The Uses of the Rothennans 247 nenjamin De !\IOlt The :\fan Who Licked the Condition 283 David R. Bunch A Piney Woods Idyll 297 We~ley Ford Da\'is ARTICLES Personal History and the Four Quartets 269 Ray n. \\'e~t. Jr. GU EST .-\ R TIS T, XVII 296 Clifford Wright POE TSIGN .\ TUR E, XVI 288 nobb Davis nOOKS AND CO!\lMEr-;T On Poets and Poetry ~p i GrO\er Smith A Willa Cather Triptych 330 Witter Bynner Hawthorne's Ambiguities 339 Shemlan Paul Old Letters, Same Shaw, (- r-;ew Impetus 343 Gerald Weales nrief Reviews 34 8 A Guide to the Literature of the Southwest, XLVI 354 Genevic\e Porterfield The Editor's Corner 243 https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/nmq/vol23/iss3/1 6 : Full Issue ~ BOLLINGEN SERIES 1953 xx THE COLLECI'ED WORKS OF C. G. JUNG Vol. 12: PSYCHOLOGY AND ALCHEMY Thia, the first volume to appear in the Collected Works. bu never previously been published in English. The work presenta a seemingly forgotten relic of medieval superstition that provides an important clue to our understanding of contemporary psychology, and seta forth the author's views on the relations of ps)'Chology and religion. 6" x 9-. 270 illustrations. 550 paces. '5.00 Vol. 7: TWO ESSAYS ON ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY The core of Jung's psychologica1lystem ill set forth in these two essay.. "The Relations Between the Ego and the Unconscious" and "On the Psychology of the Unconscious." 6" x 9". 344 pages. '3.75 XXXIV WINDS By St.·John Pene. The French text with a translation by Hugh Chisholm. Leon-Pau) Fargue regarded thill epic poem u the opening of a new poetic country.