The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 29 No. 4

Authors

• Judith Weissman
• Elizabeth Dodd
• K. Narayana Chandran
• Malcom O. Magaw
• Jane M. deVyver
• Charlotte Rotkin
• Grace Butcher
• William Virgil Davis
• Connie May Fowler
• Sandra Fowler
• Ben Howard
• Richard Smyth
• Steve Wilson
• Howard Winn
• Pamela Yenser
• Walter Shear
• V. J. Emmett Jr.
• Midwest Quarterly Editors

Contents

ARTICLES

"Transport' s Working Classes": Sanity, Sex, and Solidarity in Dickinson's Late Poetry

Metamorphosis and Vorticism in The Cantos: How to Read the Allusive Image

Revolt from the Grave: Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters

Pilgrimage to Ambivalence: A Reinterpretation of Robert Penn Warren's A Place to Come To

Symbol and Paradox in Hermann Hesse's Magister Ludi

Form and Function: The Art and Architecture of Death in Venice

POEMS

The Crazy Old Woman Who Lives Alone

Chernobyl

The River Moving

Kateland

Ybor City Number One

There Is A Black Man In My Dreams

White Tune

The Makers

Moment of Silence

Continent

Field Study

The Undiscovered Country

Pentacles: A Tarot Reading

REVIEW

CarolAnn Russell; The Red Envelope

Charles Edward Eaton; The Work of the Wrench

Eugene Current-Garcia; The American Short Story Before 1850 

INDEX

Volume XXIX

Abstract

in this issue. . .

JUDITH WEISSMAN revisions the later work of Emily Dickinson as that of a lucid, sane, generous, less volcanic woman more at ease with herself and her beliefs. A specialist in nineteenth-century poetry and fiction and Professor of English at Syracuse University, Weissman published Half Savage and Hardy and Free: Woman and Rural Radicalism in the Nineteenth-Century Novel last year. She is presently working on a book dealing with poetry and the theory of the bicameral mind.

Mindful of Ezra Pound's boast he was "in such a beautiful position to save the public's soul by punching its face," ELIZABETH DODD provides lessons in the Marquis of Queensbury rules for interpreting Pound's didactic Cantos. Editor of the Indiana Review and a published poet, Dodd is a doctoral student at Indiana University. This is her first scholarly publication.

The dead of Spoon River have truth and trouble to relate to the living, and as K. NARAYANA CHANDRAN explains, Edgar Lee Masters does so adroitly and tellingly. A teacher in the Department of English at the University of Hyderbad, India, Chandran has in addition to essays and notes on American literature and culture a 1987 book entitled Singer in the City: Studies in Modern American Poetry. Chandran has also translated essays, stories, and poems into and from Malayalam, his mother-tongue.

GRACE BUTCHER, English teacher and cross country coach at Kent State University, Geauga Campus, has been publishing poetry in "little mags" since the 60s. Her most recent books are Rumors of Ecstacy . . . Rumors of Death (Barnwood Press) and Before I Go Out on the Road (Cleveland State University Press).

WILLIAM VIRGIL DAVIS is writer-in-residence at Baylor University. His poems have appeared previously in Poetry, The Atlantic, The Hudson Review, The Georgia Review, and others. His book, One Way to Reconstruct the Scene, won the Yale Younger Poets award in 1980. The Dark Hours won the Calliope Press Chapbook Prize in 1984.

CONNIE MAY FOWLER, a native Floridian now a graduate student at the University of Kansas, has published poetry in Hudson River Review, UT Review, Anti Arbor Review, and other journals.

SANDRA FOWLER is an associate editor of Ocarina, a journal dedicated to building bridges among poets of all nations, races, and creeds. Her first book of poetry, In the Shape of the Sun, was published in Isreal. Her most recent book, The Colors Cry in Rain (Apollo Books), appeared in 1983. Her poems have also appeared in Bitterroot, Gryphon, Voices International, and other journals.

BEN HOWARD has published two books of poetry, Father of Waters (1979) and Northern Interiors (1985). Three of his poems have appeared previously in Midwest Quarterly.

RICHARD SMYTH teaches English at the University of Florida. He is co-editor of Albatross, a poetry journal, and has published poems in South Florida Poetry Review, Psychopoetica, Cathartic, and other journals.

STEVE WILSON has published poems recently in Literary Review, Webster Review, and Red Cedar Review. He lives in San Marcos, Texas.

HOWARD WINN, director of the writing program at SUNY's Dutchess College, has had poems recently in Blue Unicorn, Kansas Quarterly, Sub Rosa, and Jeopardy.

PAMELA YENSER, a native of Kansas and graduate of Wichita State University, has published poems recently in Poetry Northwest, Massachusetts Review, Iowa Woman, and other journals. She has read her poetry for many community and college audiences and has conducted writing workshops for children in the schools. She is currently living in Pittsburg with her husband and two children and is a graduate student in English at Pittsburg State. For the past eight months she has been making a selection of poems to appear m the Fall 1988 issue of The Midwest Quarterly, for which she will be guest poetry editor.

MALCOLM O. MAGAW finds Robert Penn Warren's A Place to Come To both more contemporary in its philosophical perspective and more ambiguous in its morality than the author's previous works. Professor of English at the University of New Orleans, Magaw lists among many published articles essays on Hawthorne, Melville, Thoreau, Yeats, Bellow, and Walker Percy.

JANE M. DEVYVER explores the many meanings Hermann Hesse convolved in his novel, Magister Ludi. With an interdisciplinary doctorate in art history, religion, and philosophy, she has research interests in the philosophical-theological-spiritual-psychological symbolism of the literary, visual, and performing arts. She teaches Philosophy, Religion, and other Humanities courses in the Detroit area, and she has publications including work on the symbolic meaning of Russian and Byzantine iconography, play, and poetry.

CHARLOTTE ROTKIN examines literary and autobiographical symbol and meaning in Thomas Mann's novella, Death in Venice. Associate Professor of English at Pace University, Rotkin has published several articles on Dickens and Mann. Her book on Dickens's Little Dorrit will soon appear from Peter Lang.

WALTER SHEAR, professor of English at Pittsburg State, has been a frequent contributor to this journal. Now on sabbatical leave, he recently returned from Berkeley where he did exploratory research on William Saroyan.

V. J. EMMETT, JR., professor of English and chairman of that Department, wears an extra hat these days: assistant graduate dean. He is a former editor of The Midwest Quarterly.

With this issue Dudley T. Cornish rejoins The Midwest Quarterly as its Review Editor. He replaces Bruce Daniel, a man of fine learning and achievement, who moves on to another assignment. Readers and this editor have ample cause to thank Bruce for expanding the purview of this section and to welcome back an old and good friend who was this journal's first editor. To both, thank you.

Dr. Cornish's recent book, Lincoln's Lee, written with Virginia Jeans Laas, won the 1987 Phi Alpha Theta Book Award in History.

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Weissman, Judith; Dodd, Elizabeth; Chandran, K. Narayana; Magaw, Malcom O.; deVyver, Jane M.; Rotkin, Charlotte; Butcher, Grace; Davis, William Virgil; Fowler, Connie May; Fowler, Sandra; Howard, Ben; Smyth, Richard; Wilson, Steve; Winn, Howard; Yenser, Pamela; Shear, Walter; Emmett, V. J. Jr.; and Midwest Quarterly Editors (1988) "The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 29 No. 4," The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought: Vol. 29: Iss. 4, Article 2.
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