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LETTERS
Just as Elizabeth was sent to rule her troubled people, LETTERS
is given to soothe the savage masses. From beginning to end, LET-
TERS is a creative celebration of life. An announcement of utter joy
and ecstacy co-mingled with a mastery of words Shakespeare himself
would have envied. Reading LETTERS is a source of emotional
purification parallel to one's self-immolation in Beethovan's Ninth
Symphony.
One expects someday the writters of LETTERS to be spoken of in
the same breath as Faulkner, Hemingway, O'Neil, Eliot, Pound and
Kotzwinkle. Perhaps that is to underestimate them.
The interview with Salinger was just too much, although I must
admit disappointment at the Picasso engravings. This was compensated
for by the newly discovered and previously unpublished sections
of Aristotle's POETICS. As much as I like Allen Ginsberg, I
think forty-eight poems in one issue is a bit overdone.
LETTERS is what Milton lost.
G.B. Shaw
Editor-in-chief, John Moukad; Moderator, Mr. Lanahan; Associate
Editor, Mark Cerbone.
Staff; F. Aliberti, H. Brown,
L Curreri. C. EM, C. Ford, J.
Grasso, J. McCarrick, J.
Mrugalski, J. Pompilio, M.
Sardo.
Editorial Board: R. Burke, J. Doran, S. Gallagher. J. Moukad, M. Cerbone, S. Bluitt.
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