EDITORIAL NOTE: With this issue of ABATIS ONE, the UT Review is replaced. ABATIS ONE initiates a new editorial policy. Each issue will be devoted to one of America's outstanding writers. Our first is Fred Chappell. As Jim Whitehead has written, December 21, 1982, "Fred is of course one of the best writers of our time. Dagon is an absolutely brilliant novel, and in his poetry he dares and achieves more than most of our poets faintly imagine........When the true list of our writers is compiled, he'll be on it."
In this issue all the poems and fiction express an affinity and relationship with the work of Fred Chappell. Critical articles on Chappell are included, and we conclude with works of FRED CHAPPELL.
Our next issue will be devoted to another of the very best of American writers.
