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Volume 44 Number 3-4 / Volume 45 Number 1-2 ●  2017/2018   BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE SPECIAL EDITION

SIGNS OF THE TIMES ... 202

THE POETS ... 217

FROM THE GUEST EDITOR, Joseph Bathanti, Magnetic Ether: "the Back of Beyond" ... 218

MEMOIRS, RECOLLECTIONS, REFLECTIONS

• Alex Albright, “We Were All Famous. You Just Never Heard of Us” ... 224
• Tom Patterson, Reconstituting Black Mountain ... 234
• Whitney Jones, Jonathan Williams, The Jargon Society, and Black Mountain College ... 246
• Thomas Meyer, Black Mountain: A Tangential Recollection ... 254
• Cathryn Davis Zommer, Full Circle: Making Fully Awake ... 260

POETICS & PRACTICE

• Robert Duncan, Black Mountain College, with introduction & note on the text by James Maynard ... 266
• Burt Kimmelman, My Own Private Black Mountain College ... 272
• Leon Lewis, Black Mountain Memories: Books and their Makers ... 280
• Jeff Davis, Primordia: Charles Olson’s Project to Recover the Mythic, The Testimony of the Lectures at Black Mountain College ...288
• Keith Flynn, Charles Olson: Human Vesuvius ... 296
• Julia Connor, Across Divides: The Poetry of M.C. Richards ... 304
• Charmaine Cadeau, Handling Poetry, Hearing Pottery: M.C. Richards and Black Mountain College ... 310
• Alessandro Porco, The Poetry of Jane Mayhall ... 318
• Savannah Paige Murray, “A New Kind of Stillness”: The Poetry of Hilda Morley ... 330
• Anne Waldman and Vincent Katz, To Open Minds: The Black Mountain Experiment Still Resonates ... 340

WRITERS & POETS

• Katherine Chaddock, Tall Tales on a Human Scale: The Stories of John Andrew Rice ... 350
• Suzanne Penuel, The Leisure Class: John Andrew Rice’s Free Time ... 356
• A Correspondence: John Andrew Rice and Charles Olson ... 362
• Leverett T. Smith Jr., “a vast mosaic”: Composing Black Mountain Days ... 368
• Michael Rumaker, The River at Night prose ... 373
• Michael Rumaker, Cape Ann prose ... 375
• Michael Rumaker, Journal Entry ... 384
• Michael Rumaker, Untitled poem ... 387
• Michael Rumaker, Praying Mantis poem ... 627
• Michael Rumaker, Spotted Touch-Me-Not poem ... 271
• Fielding Dawson, The Long Man poem ... 493
• Paul Carroll, Untitled poem ... 253
• Paul Carroll, Untitled poem ... 571
• Paul Carroll, Poem to a Night in May poem ... 439
• Martha King, A Late Night Snack ... 388
• Basil King, On the Road to Black Mountain College ... 392
• Joshua A. Gardner, The Disparate World of Basil King ... 394
• Jeff Davis, Introduction to Charles Olson’s “Imago” and “The Morphology” ... 398
• Charles Olson, Imago ... 399
• Charles Olson, The Morphology ... 400
• Anne Waldman, At Mountain poem ... 404 

ART, MUSIC, DEMOCRACY & DESIGN…

• Frank H. Hursh Jr., ’Round About and ’Round Again: A Painter’s Trajectory from Black Mountain College to Mexico ... 408
• Mark Davenport, Variations on a Ground: Patsy Lynch at Black Mountain College ... 416
• Brian Butler, Black Mountain College, Alvin Lustig and Design for Democracy ... 430
• Margret Kentgens-Craig, Josef Albers at Black Mountain College: Infusing Modernism Into Mainstream North Carolina Culture ... 440
• Mary Emma Harris, The Wisdom of Josef Albers ... 460
• Irwin Kremen, On the Score of 4’33” (Original Version in Proportional Notation) ... 470
• Sebastian Matthews, Wish You Were Here: Ray Johnson in Detroit, Black Mountain, the Lower East Side & Sag Harbor ... 474
• Julie J. Thomson, Seeing More Than Failure: The Photographs of Buckminster Fuller’s 1948 Dome by Beaumont Newhall, Trude Guermonprez, Josef Albers, and Hazel Larsen Archer ... 482
• Ray Miller & Jessica Wood, Merce Cunningham and Black Mountain: No Fixed Points ... 494
• Craig Fischer, The Foot in Nixon’s Mouth: Stan VanDerBeek, Terry Gilliam, and Black Mountain Collage ... 512
• Eva Díaz, R. Buckminster Fuller’s Strange Bedfellows ... 520
• From the Archives of Harper's Monthly (April 1936) ... 525

BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE & PLACE

• Carey Hedlund, Black Mountain College and Penland School of Crafts: Neighbors Without Introduction ... 526
• Kelsey Wagner and William Schumann, John C. Campbell Folk School & Black Mountain College: An Interview with Jan Davidson ... 532
• Alice Sebrell, A Small But Mighty Museum: The Story of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center ... 540
• Heather South, Black Mountain College Through the Eyes of an Archivist ... 548
• David Silver, The Founding of the Farm at Black Mountain College ... 552
• John Corkran, Extra Innings: Some Black Mountain Lives after Softball ... 564
• Fielding Dawson, Education at Black Mountain College ... 572
• Cratis D. Williams, With an Alumnus at Black Mountain College, with introduction by Sandra L. Ballard ... 574
• Alma Stone Williams, My Black Mountain College: A Personal Account ... 584
• Alma Stone Williams, Selected Black Mountain Letters of Alma Stone Williams ... 600
• Percy Williams, "That Took Some Doing": An Interview with Alma Stone Williams ... 610
• Russell Williams, Intergenerational Reverberations ... 616

REVIEW ESSAYS / BOOK REVIEWS

• Tom Frank, Three Models of Design at Black Mountain College: On Eva Díaz’s The Experimenters: Chance and Design at Black Mountain College ... 622
• Dustin Witsman, Black Mountain Was Rice—On Rice’s I Came Out of the Eighteenth Century and Chaddock’s Visions and Vanities: John Andrew Rice of Black Mountain College ... 628
• Savannah Paige Murray, on Martin Duberman’s An Exploration in Community ... 632
• Ted Wojtasik, on Michael Rumaker’s Black Mountain Days ... 635
• Katie Kehoe, on Fielding Dawson’s The Black Mountain Book (new edition) ... 637
• Andrés Fisher, on Jonathan Creasey’s The Black Mountain Letters: Poems and Essays ... 639
• Jean McLaughlin, on Helen Molesworth’s Leap before You Look ... 641
• Eric Baden, on Julie Thomson’s Begin to See: The Photographers of Black Mountain College ... 643
• Darnell Arnoult, on the BMC section of North Carolina Literary Review ... 645

CHRONICLE ... 648

DEDICATION: TO MARY EMMA HARRIS, by Joseph Bathanti ... 653

BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE BY THE NUMBERS ... 654

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