The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 37 No. 3

Authors

• Philip K. Jason
• Virginia Oakley Beahrs
• Stephanie Gauper
• Jean Robertson
• Craig McDaniel
• Debra Goodlett
• Nicki L. Young
• Diane Averill
• Cindy Bosley
• Sharon Fain
• Charles Freeland
• Kathryn Hall
• William Joliff
• Peter Markus
• Maggie McDowell
• Franco Pagnucci
• John Piller
• Michele Pizarro
• William Snyder Jr.
• Philip Terman
• Mary Tompkins
• David Tucker
• Richard Holinger
• Patricia A. Behlar
• Midwest Quarterly Editors

Contents

ARTICLES 

"The Noise is Always in My Head": Auditory Images in the Literature of the Vietnam War 

A New Look at Periodicity in the Creative Life of Ludwig van Beethoven 

The Philosophy/Psychology of Women and Holocaust Theodicy in the Works of Ilona Karmel 

Artists Explore the Map: 1960 to 1995 

Love and Addiction in Wuthering Heights 

There's No Place Like Home: An Analysis of Homeless Testimonial Narrative 

POEMS 

Litany 

Poem About the Quiet Farm  

One Month at Casa Sotovento 

Six Kinds of Weather 

Annunciation 

Willy Fetch, Textbook Salesman 

Late Harvest  

Girl in the Yellow Dress 

The Watch 

Annihilation 

Nyctophobia 

Amazonas 

Summer Song 

The Quilt was Too Big 

Emily  

REVIEWS 

Henri Cole; The Look of Things 

Mary L. Volcansek; Judicial Impeachment: None Called for justice  

Abstract

PHILIP K. JASON presents the sounds of the war in Vietnam through the literature that conflict engendered and in doing so makes this experience all the more real and devastating. Professor of English at the United States Naval Academy, Jason's publications include work in two collections of poetry; the Creative Writer's Handbook (Prentice-Hall); the career study of Anais Nin and Her Critics (Camden House); and two books relevant to the topic here, Fourteen Landing Zones: Approaches to Vietnam War Literature (University of Iowa Press) and The Vietnam War in Literature: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism (Salem Press). He is currently working on a study of the literature of the Korean War and serves as co-editor of the quarterly journal, Poet Lore.

VIRGINIA OAKLEY BEAHRS argues that dividing the life and work of Ludwig van Beethoven into five periods (trust, challenge, capitulation, regeneration, submission) best explains the context for Beethoven's creative genius. Beahrs is author of several privately printed works (Ludwig van Beethoven: Tormented Genius, Andrew Johnson-President on Trial, Charles and Henrietta) and numerous articles on mainly musical topics in scholarly journals and periodicals.

STEPHANIE DEMETRAKOPOULOS GAUPER uses insights drawn from philosophy and psychology to understand the novels of Iona Kam1el, one of the few women to draw upon their experiences in the Nazi Holocaust in fictional forn1. Professor of English at Western Michigan University, Gauper is author of Listening to Our Bodies: The Rebirth of Feminine Wisdom and co-author with Karla F. C. Holloway of New Dimensions of Spirituality: A Biracial and Bicultural Reading of the Novels of Toni Morrison. She is presently working on a book dealing with women's spirituality and recovery from cancer.

DIANE A VE RILL has published a book of poems, Branches Doubled Over With Fruit (University of Central Florida Press, 1991). Her poems have appeared in numerous literary magazines, including Calyx, Carolina Quarterly, Tar River Poetry, and also The Midwest Quarterly, as well as in two anthologies, Carnegie Mellon Anthology of Poetry (1994) and From Here We Speak (Oregon State University Press, 1994). She lives in Beavercreek, Oregon.

CINDY BOSLEY, a native of Ottumwa, Iowa, recently transplanted herself in Toledo, Ohio, where she writes and lives with her husband and daughter.

SHARON FAIN, Piedmont, California, is a counselor and child development instructor at City College of San Francisco. Her poems have appeared in Calyx, Rain City Review, and other journals.

CHARLES FREELAND's poems have appeared in Carolina Quarterly, Laurel Review, Fine Madness, and other journals. He lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

KATHRYN HALL has published poems recently in Centennial Review, Rocky Mountain Review, and South Dakota Review. She lives in Iowa City, Iowa, with her husband and son.

WILLIAM JOLIFF, Newberg, Oregon, has published poems recently in Quarterly West, Cumberland Poetry Review, Southern Poetry Review, and other journals. His work has also appeared previously in The Midwest Quarterly.

PETER MARKUS's recent poems have appeared in The Prose Poem, Red Cedar Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, and other journals. He lives in Detroit, Michigan.

MAGGIE MCDOWELL, Seattle, is an M.F.A. student at the University of Washington.

FRANCO PAGNUCCI has published poetry recently in Bird Watcher's Digest, Lullwater Review, and also The Midwest Quarterly. Non-fiction has appeared in Christian Science Monitor, Commonweal, and other journals. His three most recent books are New Roads Old Towns, I Never Had a Pet, and Out Harmsen's Way. He also recently published Hansel & Gretel & Grimm & More, a storytelling book with patterns for children and teachers. He lives in Platteville, Wisconsin.

JOHN PILLER, Charlottesville, Virginia, has published poems in Gettysburg Review, Poetry East, Plum Review, and other journals. He received an Academy of American Poets Prize (1991), and was a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (1993, 1994). In 1992 he received a grant in poetry from the Virginia Commission for the Arts.

MICHELE PIZARRO, Las Vegas, Nevada, has published her work in the Jacaranda Review.

WILLIAM SNYDER, JR., worked as a musician, Vaudeville performer, juggling teacher, maintenance worker, grill cook, and English teacher before entering the Ph.D. program at Florida State University. He is currently poetry editor of Sundog, and his poems have appeared in Borderlands, Louisville Review, and Chaminade Literary Review. He lives in Tallahassee.

PHILIP TERMAN, Grove City, Pennsylvania, has recently published poems in Poetry, Kenyon Review, New England Review, and other journals, including The Midwest Quarterly. His chapbook, What Survives, was published by Sow's Ear Press.

MARK TOMPKINS is a pianist, a ufologist, and horror film connoisseur, as well as a poet. He lives in Cresskill, New Jersey, where he runs a small tobacco shop.

DAVID TUCKER, a native of Tennessee, now lives in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania. His poems have appeared in New York Quarterly, Carolina Quarterly, Southern Poetry Review, and other journals. He is city editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer.

JEAN ROBERTSON and CRAIG McDANIEL explore the challenge contemporary artists have taken up in employing maps to examine today's world. Robertson, a writer and freelance curator keenly interested in art of an interdisciplinary, speculative nature, has published art criticism in many magazines and journals. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History at Herron School of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana, for 1995-1996. Both a painter and a poet, McDaniel is an Associate Professor of Art at Indiana State University with recent exhibitions of his paintings at Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, Artswatch Gallery in Louisville, Kentucky, and Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. Robertson and McDaniel have collaborated on numerous projects, including organizing the exhibitions "Exploring Maps," "Six Guns and Tomahawks," "Masks: Variations on a Theme," and "Hurry Sundown: The 1930s." They consider the conceptualization and founding of the Southern Ohio Museum in 1979 as their most significant collaboration.

DEBRA GOODLETT argues that the much-analyzed relationship of Catherine and Heathcliff in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights is best seen as an addiction to love, a dependency that manifests itself in many ways. Instructor of English at Crowder College in Neosho, Missouri, Goodlett is here publishing her first scholarly article.

NIKI L. YOUNG discovers in the rhetorical and persuasive features of the Congressional testimony of homeless people the true power of their argument and the reality of their experience. A doctoral student in Speech Communication at Louisiana State University and instructor at Southeastern Louisiana University, Young is the author of a study entitled "No More Vietnam: Lessons for Interpreting the Persian Gulf War."

RICHARD HOLINGER, who teaches English at Marmion Academy in Aurora, Illinois, received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago. His short fiction and poetry have been published in numerous journals. His short fiction has been nominated for Pushcart Prize XX (1995-96 edition).

PATRICIA BEHLAR, book review editor of this journal, is Associate Professor of Political Science at Pittsburg State University. Her particular interest is in public law, and her essay "Judicial Review" appeared in Survey of Social Science: Government and Politics (Salem Press, 1995).

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Jason, Philip K.; Beahrs, Virginia Oakley; Gauper, Stephanie; Robertson, Jean; McDaniel, Craig; Goodlett, Debra; Young, Nicki L.; Averill, Diane; Bosley, Cindy; Fain, Sharon; Freeland, Charles; Hall, Kathryn; Joliff, William; Markus, Peter; McDowell, Maggie; Pagnucci, Franco; Piller, John; Pizarro, Michele; Snyder, William Jr.; Terman, Philip; Tompkins, Mary; Tucker, David; Holinger, Richard; Behlar, Patricia A.; and Midwest Quarterly Editors (1996) "The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 37 No. 3," The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought: Vol. 37: Iss. 3, Article 1.
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