Confrontation Features
Never-Before-Published Letters from Colette
Love and friendship are two of the most common themes in literature.
Nowhere are they more apparent - or beautifully expressed -than in the
letters written by legendary French writer Colette and published for the
first time in the summer 1999 issue of Confrontation. The prize-winning
journal is published at Long Island University and edited by C.W. Post
English Professor Emeritus Martin Tucker.
This latest issue of Confrontation features four letters from
Colette to friend and confidant Francoise Berge. Each letter portrays the
art of everyday life, the small amenities that partake in the making of
humanity and history. The magazine has reproduced original copies of the
letters; they appear in Colette's handwritten French. English translations
appear on the facing pages.
The Colette letters set the tone for the entire 1999 issue of Confrontation.
Love plays the dominant role in the stories and poems that fill the 298-page
anthology. The analytical essays which usually follow each submission are
omitted. Instead, the poems and stories are left to stand alone in all
their beauty.
Among the contributors are Kenneth Bernard, Aurelie Sheehan, Niles Goldstein,
Karen Heuler, Richard Kostelanetz, Curt Leviant, Jane Mayhall, Walter McDonald,
Sandy McIntosh, D.H. Melhem, Lee Mhatre, Joan Murray, Lynda Schor, Tom
Stacey, Judith Taylor, David Y. Todd, Martin Tucker and Susan Vreeland.
Confrontation is an award-wining literary journal open to submissions
from all writers. It has been named by the Library Journal as "one
of the great literary bargains in American publishing history." Since
1968, Confrontation has been publishing an expansive range of fiction,
poetry, plays, essays and criticism. Among its contributors have been seven
Nobel laureates and many Pulitzer and other literary prize awardees, including
I.B. Singer, Arthur Miller, William Styron, Nadine Gordimer, Cynthia Ozick,
Derek Walcott, Joyce Carol Oates, Jerzy Kosinski, Paul Theroux and Thomas
Fleming.
The magazine can be purchased for $10 directly from the English Department
of Long Island University's C.W. Post Campus, 720 Northern Boulevard, Brookville,
NY 11548, and from local bookstores. It is also distributed by D. DeBoer,
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