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The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

Contents

ARTICLES 

At the Killing Fields 

Hungarian Voices, Summer 1993 

Robert Olen Butler's Vietnam Veterans: Strangers in an Alien Home 

Massacre Without Tomahawks 

From Monotheism to Pantheism: The Road to Liberation from Patriarchy in Alice Walker's The Color Purple 

The Spirit of Community in Adjunctive Medical Treatments: Humanizing Trends in the Care of the Ill 

POEMS 

How the Oldest Twins in the Neighborhood Remember the Longest Winter 

Ranting and Raving in the Western World  

At Kenyon, July 24  

Woman in the Hospital 

Kitchen  

Inland Meditation on a Memory of the Ocean 

A Need for No Names I. 

A Need for No Names II. 

Three Wishes  

The Still Life  

Albion Hills 

After the Autumn Fire  

The Bed  

On the Side of Justice 

The Light Exchange of Bodies 

Story 

REVIEWS 

Douglas Wixson; Worker-Writer in America: Jack Conroy and the Tradition of Midwestern Literary Radicalism, 1898-1990 

Albert Cook; The Reach of Poetry 

Don Florence; Persona and Humor in Mark Twain's Early Writings 

Michael A. B. Deakin; Mathematician and Martyr: A Biography of Hypatia of Alexandria 

Maria Dzielska; Hypatia of Alexandria 

Abstract

STEVEN VINCENT describes his attempt to come to terms with what he has seen in the killing fields of Cambodia, monuments to the Khmer Rouge's systematic destruction of Cambodians who had known or imagined life other than the rural peasant ideal their bloody torturers and murderers envisioned, even if this means not coming to terms with it at all but to accept its unacceptability, not to rationalize the irrational. Currently the senior writer for Art & Auction magazine where he writes about the international art world, and specifically the art market, he also contributes regularly to the Antique Collector, an English art magazine, and has written art-related stories for the Independent, one of London's daily newspapers. His writings about New York culture and politics have appeared in New York Newsday, New York Post, and New York Times. He is currently working on a collection of short stories based on his experiences on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

RICHARD TELEKY presents Hungarians at a moment not frozen in time but suspended on the brink of they know not what, more inflation and unemployment, war, a spillover of ethnic cleansing from the former Yugoslavia, better times, fulfillment of the promises of western investment, renewal, or some other grimmer or better future. Head of the Creative Writing Program at York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Teleky is the author of a collection of short fiction, Goodnight, Sweetheart and Other Stories. He has published essays and stories in a wide variety of scholarly journals and magazines. He is currently completing a book about Hungarian immigrant culture titled "Hungarian Rhapsodies: Essays on Identity, Ethnicity, and Culture."

MAUREEN RYAN considers Vietnam war veterans in three novels by Robert Olen Butler to discover the personal legacy of that conflict they cany with them and examines what she terms a self-absorbed, "isolated later-twentieth-century American Adam." Dean of the Honors College and Associate Professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi, Ryan has published Innocence and Estrangement in the Fiction of Jean Stafford (LSU Press, 1987) and articles on F. Scott Fitzgerald, Willa Cather, and many contemporary American women writers.

LEONA M. DILLARD offers a previously unknown eyewitness account of William Quan trill's infamous raid on Lawrence, Kansas, in 1863, one of the horrific events of this borderland war within the Civil War. A retired investment analyst who writes for the enjoyment, Dillard has published short stories in Confrontation, Cimarron Review, Kansas Quarterly, Long Island Forum, South Dakota Review.

LAURA BERNSTEIN, Detroit, Michigan, teaches writing and literature at the Center for Creative Studies and the University of Detroit Mercy. Her poems have appeared in The Black Warrior Review, Poetry Northwest, and other journals.

LAURIE BLAUNER, author of three books, has published poems in Nation, American Poetry Review, New Republic, Georgia Review, Poetry, Poetry Northwest, and other journals. Her most recent book, Children of Gravity, won the 1995 King County Publication Award. She has received National Endowment for the Arts and Seattle Arts Commission creative writing grants. She lives in Seattle, Washington.

SUSAN CLARKE, South Hadley, Massachusetts, teaches high school English. Her poems have appeared in Denver Quarterly, Prima Vera, Negative Capability, and other journals.

LENNY DELLAROCCA has published poems in Wisconsin Review, Nimrod, Negative Capability, and other journals. He manages a poetry reading series and often reads his own poetry on local television and radio. He currently writes for a small newspaper and lives in Delray Beach, Florida.

KATE FUNKHOUSER, Houston, Texas, teaches Spanish at a local college. Her poems have appeared in several journals, including Permafrost, Seattle Review, and Sulphur River Literary Review.

NICKIE J. GUNSTROM, going against traffic, recently moved from Reno to southern California. She has published poems in Barnabe Mountain Review and Jeopardy. Her poems have also appeared previously in The Midwest Quarterly.

THERESE HALSCHIED, Haddonfield, New Jersey, has published poems in numerous journals, including Poetry Motel, Poetry New Zealand, Snowy Egret, and Voices International. She has published one collection of poems, Powertalk.

JOHN D. HAMILTON has published poetry in Mimesis. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he is currently working on a degree in English.

THOMAS HEISE has published poetry in New York Quarterly, Chattahochee Review, Negative Capability, Seattle Review, and other journals. He has worked as an editor for both International Quarterly and Anhinga Press. He lives in Davis, California.

MATTHEW S. LaPIERRE, Portland, Maine, has worked in a video store, a pet store, and a bank. He has also worked as a freelance reporter. His poems have appeared in Chiron Review, Atom Mind, Cokefish, and other journals.

JAMES S. PROFFITT, North Bend, Ohio, works in law enforcement. His poems have appeared in South Carolina Review, Cincinnati Poetry Review, Poet Lore, Minotaur, Main Street Raq, and other journals.

AURORA REYNOSO has published poetry in Berkeley Poetry Review and Yankee. She recently earned an M.A. in English at the University of California at Santa Barbara and is planning to study for a Ph.D. there. She lives in Goleta, California.

MARK RUBIN is a psychotherapist in private practice. He received a National Endowment for the Arts grant in poetry in 1995. He has published one book of poems, The Beginning of Responsibility (Owl Creek Press, 1992). His poems have appeared in Crazyhorse, Epoch, Ohio Review, and other journals. He lives in Burlington, Vermont.

MARK SCHIMMOELLER has published poetry in about a dozen magazines, including Orion. He lives with his family near Frankfort, Kentucky, in a log cabin without electricity or running water. They grow most of their own food, cook with solar cookers, refrigerate food in a deep limestone well, and make most of their own herbal medicines. In 1994 and 1995 he started solar cooker projects in Peru and Honduras.

SARA SPROLES, Minneapolis, Minnesota, has published poetry in Brooklyn Review and Brass City, and in an anthology, Maple Leaf Rag. Currently she is a manuscript reader for Graywolf Press and a creative writing teacher at The Loft. Her poems have appeared previously in The Midwest Quarterly.

STACIE LYNN HANKINSON traces the changes in the life of Celie, the focal character in Alice Walker's The Color Purple, her personal growth from oppression to joy. In Hankinson's view Celie's transformation results from her rejection of God the Father, whom she identifies with her male oppressors, to one who worships a deity associated with everything in nature, a belief connected with goddess religions. A doctoral student in Literature and Criticism at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, completing the final chapters of her dissertation, "Politics, Pacifism, and Feminist Liberation in the Works of Katherine Anne Porter," Hankinson presented this paper for the Pennsylvania College English Association Conference. This is her first published scholarly article.

SUSAN M. MATARESE and PAUL G. SALMON see a parallel between the movement for a community-centered medicine where the individual and the world she inhabits affects the incidence and impact of illness and that in society seeking an alternative to "the dominant liberal, individualist ethos of contemporary American life" which emphasizes individual rights and the pursuit of self-interest. Matarese is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Louisville. A long-time student of historic and contemporary communal societies, she has published a number of articles on the communitarian experience in America and is past President of the Communal Studies Association. Salmon is an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Louisville and holds an appointment in the Division of Attitudinal Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry: He is currently working on a variety of research projects involving stress and illness, and has recently published a book dealing with performance anxiety among musicians.

JAMES M. BOEHNLEIN, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Dayton, focuses his scholarship on repressed American authors and their unique contributions to our cultural and literary heritage. His publications include The Sociocognitive Rhetoric of Meridel Le Sueur (1994).

CHARLES CAGLE is an award-winning creative writer and professor in the English Department at Pittsburg State University. His civic activity has included a lecture to the Stilwell Heritage and Educational Foundation on the life of Arthur Stilwell.

WALTER SHEAR, Professor Emeritus in English at Pittsburg State University, who reviews a book on the early writing of Mark Twain, authored "Twain's Early Writing and Theories of Realism," which appeared in the Autumn 1988 issue of The Midwest Quarterly. He is a specialist in American fiction.

DONALD WAYNE VINEY is Professor of Philosophy at Pittsburg State University. He has published extensively in his field and has recently had articles accepted by Teaching Philosophy, History of Philosophy Quarterly, and Faith and Philosophy. Viney's article on the humor of Jesus appeared in the last issue of this journal.

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