Pine River Anthology 1959
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Authors
Frevel, Kurt
Bryant, Dave
Issue Date
1959
Type
Book
Language
en_US
Keywords
Alternative Title
The Pine River 1959
Abstract
The Pine River, the revived version of the Alma College literary magazine minus the "anthology" previously included in the title, appears in handsome print and binding this year after a four year respite during which only dittoed compilations and a meager Almanian supplement were produced. This happy turn is possible because the writing party of Alma College community turned out enough work to warrant such a publication. Also, the English department was provided with a budget that amply covered printing costs. I here offer my thanks to the creators for their ambition and to the college for providing the icy cash which allowed its fructification.
Nearly all the material presented here first stood trial and perhaps error before the exalted but sometimes devastatingly informal-at least so it seemed occasionally to its more formally inclined president-tribunal, Parnassians. Parnassians is the literary society of the college and embraces literarily bent people from all walks of the college community life. Students are of course the coddled members of the society, having a monopoly on the official positions, few and unimposing as these are; and certainly the main purpose of the organization is the stimulation of literary interest in the student body and the helping of interested students on toward greater literary ability in either creating or enjoying. But the group is wider horizoned than just the borders of the institution's inmatedom and prides itself on welcoming professors, professor's wives, townsfolk and townsfolk's wives to its meetings--thus giving itself a breadth of vision, whatever nebulous meaning this has, that would be difficult to get with a purely student comprised group.
I could indulge in a lengthy evaluation of the stories, essays, and poems included in the magazine; however this would direct you through the work, and perhaps wrongly, along editorially conceived roads. So let the below remain as unspoiled new territory awaiting your leisurely exploration where you may find essays that interest, poems that sparkle, and short stories that grip.
Description
"Story" - Maggie Shaft
"1959 A. D." - Ruth Phillips
"Poem" Kurt FreveI
"Honesty" - Ruth Phillips
"The Turnpike" - Carole PhiIIips
"June Cool" - Dan Fox
"For the Time Capsule" - Dr. Robert Wegner
"Poem" - Kurt FreveI
"Donne's Concept of Love In His Songs and Sonnets" - Kaye King
"The Vitiators" - Dr. Robert Wegner
"Sunset," - Kurt FreveI
"The Magician" - Dan Fox
"L'Etre" - Robert Streadwick
"Humbert, Humbert: A New Gulliver" - Robert Streadwick
"The Game" - Ruth Phillips
"--Ars" - Dan Fox
"Poem" - Carole Phillips
"Poem" - Kay Ferguson
"Mission" - Dr. Florence Kirk
"The Trip" - Ruth Phillips
Citation
Publisher
The Parnassians at Alma College