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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