The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought
Contents
ARTICLES
Hunting and the Evolution of Human Intelligence: An Alternative View
How to Argue for God’s Existence: Reflections on Hartshorne’s Global Argument
Chekov, Salinger, and Epictetus
STAR POEMS
Civilized
Journey
Astronomer
No Star-dust
Love Song of Day 1, Time 00:00:10-10
When I Look
Theories
Celestial Navigation
Tycho's Ghost, 1572
COMET POEMS
On Things Predictable
The Comet
Sky Watch
Halley's Comet
Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos: Comets
Halley's Comet
REVIEWS
Jeanie Thompson; How To Enter The River
Charles Hartshorne; Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes
William Gass; In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
Garrison Keillor; Lake Wobegon Days
Abstract
in this issue. . .
MAXINE SHEETS-JOHNSTONE uses a study of hunting activities to inform a new view of humans as more than sensory receptors dangling from the intelligent brain. With a doctorate in dance and study toward a second doctorate in zoology, Sheets-Johnstone has written two books on dance and has published numerous articles on philosophical anthropology in journals devoted to science, philosophy, the humanities, and the arts. She is presently gathering material for a book on the paleonanthropological hermeneutics of the body. She has taught at U.C.L.A., in the S.U.N.Y. system, at the University of Waterloo in Canada, and at Temple University, and now resides in San Rafael, California.
DONALD WAYNE VINEY employs the writings of Charles Hartshorne to explain how not to prove God exists and how man's mind can comprehend God. Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Pittsburg State University, Viney last year had his book, Charles Hartshorne and the Existence of God, published by the State University of New York Press. He has a review of Hartshorne's most recent book elsewhere in this issue.
The poems in this issue are the fruition of the Poetry Editor's request for works heavenly. Star Poems are followed by a group of Comet Poems. He wishes also to note that three works with similar subjects appeared in earlier issues: Thom Tamaro, "Lyrids," Spring 1986; David Kerner, "The Tree of Self-Knowledge," Summer 1986; and Stephen Meats, "Let Now the Stargazers," Summer 1986.
JAMES DOYLE, a teacher of ·creative writing and poetry at the University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, has had poetry appear in Beloit Poetry Journal, Cape Rock, Texas Quarterly, and other journals.
DAVID DOOLEY currently works in San Antonio as a legal assistant. He has college degrees from Tennessee and Johns Hopkins and has had poetry accepted recently by the Kentucky Poetry Review.
ROBERT A. FROST has a creative writing degree from Wichita State University and is currently teaching at the Lincoln School in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
FRAN AVNET GOLDSTEIN of Granite Springs, New York, is a private-duty nurse whose poetry has appeared recently in The Lyric, Voices International, Wind Literary Journal, and other journals.
ROBERT HAYS, communications consultant, writer; and professor emeritus in the University System of Georgia, has published poetry in Dreams of the Historic Muse, The Poet, South and West, and Encore. His four books and more than a hundred articles in the area of communication and technology have won a number of national and international awards.
TONY PARK is a graduate student in creative writing at Colorado State University and has had one poem accepted by the Kentucky Poetry Review.
CYNTHIA PEDERSON had a poem published in The Midwest Quarterly earlier this year. Her poems have also appeared in Cottonwood, Inscape, and Little Balkans Review. She has published one collection of poems, Spoken Across A Distance (Woodley Press, 1982).
MARTHA M. VERTREACE is poet-in-residence and assistant professor of English at Kennedy-King College in Chicago. Her poems have appeared in The Atavist, CITY, Chicago Literary Review, and other journals. Her first collection of poetry, Second House from the Corner, will be forthcoming from Kennedy-King College Press later this year.
MARLIS MANLEY BROADHEAD has her MFA from Wichita State University. She has won fiction awards from Amelia and Kansas Quarterly, and her poetry has appeared in Ark River Review, Review II, AID Review, and other journals. Some of her poems were also featured in two anthologies, Kansas Women Writers and 30 Kansas Poets. She teaches at Iowa State University.
ROBERT HARLOW had poems in the Winter 1986 issue of The Midwest Quarterly. He has a creative writing degree from the University of Arizona and is close to finishing a doctorate at the State University of New York at Albany.
FLEDA BROWN JACKSON teaches part-time at the University of Delaware and edits their literary magazine. She has had poetry appear in Kenyon Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Cottonwood, and other journals. She also has poems forthcoming in Poetry Northwest.
GEORGE LOONEY of Chicago published a poem in The Midwest Quarterly earlier this year, and he has recently had work accepted by Prairie Schooner, Texas Review, Tar River Poetry, and other journals.
DENISE LOW of Lawrence, Kansas, teaches at Haskell Indian Junior College. Her poems have appeared recently in Kansas Quarterly, Cottonwood, Kansas English, and other journals. Random recently selected one of her poems to appear in a college anthology. Her book, Spring Geese, was published by the University of Kansas Museum of Natural History in 1984.
WILLIAM PAGE teaches creative writing at Memphis State University and edits the Memphis State Review. His poetry has appeared in numerous journals, including North American Review, Kansas Quarterly, Southern Review, and others. His . third collection of poems, Bodies Not Our Own (Memphis State University Press) appeared earlier this year.
Both Chekhov and Salinger, contends ROBERT WEXELBLATT, found in Stoicism a complex philosophy meaningful as a way of observing modern life. Wexelblatt is still professing philosophy and literature at Boston University, making sense, exhibiting a fine appreciation for the humorous in life, and, having taken up wrestling with flopping disks, is expecting a shot at the title any day now.
Self-deception, and the resulting dishonesty and despair, according to STEVEN R. CENTOLA, provide the theme of both Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge and William Inge's Come Back, Little Sheba. Now teaching English at Millersville University in Pennsylvania, Centola has published several essays on Miller and has articles on Coleridge, Joyce, Jung, and Sartre, in a variety of journals.
OSCAR SALINAS explores the connection between the self and love and suggests the means by which American society can renew both. English instructor at Pan American University in Edinburg, Texas, and in private practice there as a psychotherapist, Salinas has shared his research on the relationships between psychophysiology, the formation of conscience, individual and social character, education, and cultural evolution, with a number of live and print audiences.
EILEEN T. BENDER examines the influence of Henri Bergson on Willa Cather and her attitudes towards science and technology. Lecturer in American Literature at St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana, Bender has produced a long list of papers and articles on American literary figures, including a book-length critical study of Joyce Carol Oates from the Indiana University Press.
ERIC PANKEY'S book, For The New Year, was selected by Mark Strand as the Walt Whitman Award winner and published by Atheneum in 1984. He has had poems and reviews recently in The Antioch Review, The Iowa Review, The Seattle Review, The Bloomsbury Review, and The Christian Science Monitor, and held fellowships at the University of Iowa and Wesleyan University in poetry.
CLARK BROWN teaches and writes in Chico, California. His publications include a novel, The Disciple (Viking), and short fiction in Sou'wester, The South Carolina Review, Occident, Descant, Writers Forum, and Latitude 30° 18'. One of his stories is collected in the 1984-85 Pushcart Prize anthology and is to be reprinted in The Interior Country: Stories of the Modern West (Ohio University Press).
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Sheets-Johnstone, Maxine; Viney, Donald Wayne; Doyle, James; Dooley, David; Frost, Robert A.; Goldstein, Fran Avnet; Hays, Robert; Park, Tony; Pederson, Cynthia; Vertreace, Martha M.; Broadhead, Marlis Manley; Harlow, Robert; Jackson, Fleda Brown; Looney, George; Low, Denise; Page, William; Wexelblatt, Robert; Centola, Steven R.; Salinas, Oscar; Bender, Eileen T.; Pankey, Eric; Brown, Clark; and Midwest Quarterly Editors
(1986)
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