Confrontation Marks 30th Anniversary with Energy - Energy
Then, Energy Now: Where is Our Energy Going to Come From?
Confrontation has historically embodied energy, a "rage against
the machine." At the brink of the new millennium, Confrontation
- the prize-winning literary journal published at Long Island University's
C.W. Post Campus - asks where we will find the spiritual and psychic energy
needed to move into a new world.
Confrontation's 30th anniversary issue, "Energy Then, Energy
Now: Where is Our Energy Going to Come From?" focuses on the expressive
energy of an entire century. A special section, "In Retrospect,"
offers reflections from past Confrontation contributors with comments
on the most significant events of this century. The contributors include
Winthrop Bushnell Palmer, Eugene McCarthy, Arthur Miller, Alvin Toffler,
Nadine Gordimer, Lanford Wilson and Mario Vargas Llosa. The anniversary
issue also features two memoir essays, tributes to youthful idealism and
the ironic side of profound issues, as well as essays which address present
problems and those we will face in the future.
"We hope it will be in the sum and parcel of great literary thinkers,"
said Dr. Martin Tucker, editor of Confrontation's 30th anniversary
issue. "Older exhibits of expression may change with modern technology,
but spirit - in whatever form it is seized - remains fresh, free and agelessly
relevant.
"We don't' know where our energy will be coming from in the new
millennium, but Confrontation is exploring the matter," said
Tucker. "By addressing the issue of continual rebirthing, we hope
to produce sixty more issues, at the least."
Called by Library Journal "one of the great literary bargains
in American publishing history," Confrontation features original
stories and poems in addition to special supplements. Since 1968 Confrontation
has been publishing an expansive range of fiction, poetry, plays, essays
and criticism. Stories, poems and essays from Confrontation have
been chosen for awards by Pushcart Prize, Best Short Stories, and O'Henry
Prize Stories.
Published semi-annually, Confrontation sells for $10 on newsstands
or may be purchased by sending a check to Confrontation, English
Department, C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University, Brookville, N.Y.
11548-1300. Subscription rate is $10 per year.
For further information, call Professor Martin Tucker at (516) 299-2391
or 299-2720; fax 299-2735; email mtucker@liu.edu.
For more information call the C.W. Post Public
Relations Office at (516) 299-2333 or e-mail pr@cwpost.liu.edu
or send mail to: Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus, 720 Northern
Blvd., Brookville, New York 11548-1300.
