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The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

Contents

ARTICLES

The Politics of Madness: Junius Brutus in 405

Machiavelli and Shakespeare

Implications of Death in Classical Epic and Tragedy

The Failure of Bloodbrotherhood in Melville’s Moby-Dick and Lawrence’s Women in Love

Love Medicine: A Female Moby-Dick

Constructing Human Conscience in Joyce's Dubliners

Life and Play in Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest

POEMS

The Oracle of Remembered Things

Ways of Looking at the Ocean

Like Years

For the Workshop

Three Designs

Ode to Knees

Winter

The Return

Ice Age

Contour Drawing

Although Summer is Over

Minnows Under the Boat

These Children

Pieces of Night

Atlantis

Maize

Empirical Proof

Listening Song

REVIEWS

Charles Edward Eaton; New and Selected Poems 1942-1987

John Clellon Holmes; Passionate Opinions: The Cultural Essays of John Clellon Holmes

Robert Smith Bader; Hayseeds, Moralizers, and Methodists: The Twentieth-Century Image of Kansas

Ralph J. Mills, Jr.; Each Branch: Poems, 1976-1985

Abstract

in this issue. . .

JACK D'AMICO explores the politics of madness and the madness of politics through the character of Junius Brutus and his incarnations in Machiavelli and Shakespeare. Presently Associate Professor of English at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York, D'Amico has written extensively on English and Italian Renaissance literature, particularly on theater and Machiavelli.

The Greek and Roman epics and tragedies, MARGARET J. DOWNES observes, present us with the purposes and consequences of death in order to focus on the implications and responsibilities of life. Author of scholarly works on William Blake, classical literature and culture, film, and the teaching of humanities courses, Downes is an Associate Professor in the Department of Literature and Language at the University of North Carolina-Asheville.

BRUCE BOND, Lawrence, Kansas, has published poetry recently in The Georgia Review, Poetry Northwest, The Laurel Review, and other journals. His essay on the poetry of Charles Simic appeared in Mid-American Review.

MARGUERITE BOUVARD has published two books of poetry, Voices from an Island and Journeys Over Water. She is Professor of International Relations at Regis College, Weston, Massachusetts, where she also teaches poetry workshops.

BARBARA SIEGEL CARLSON is an MFA student at Vermont College. She has recently published poems in Hollins Critic, Outerbridge, and Piedmont Literary Review.

CHIP DAMERON, Brownsville, Texas, has published one book of poetry, In the Magnetic Arena (1987), and one travel book, From Ben Bulben to the Rhine. His poems, critical articles, and reviews have appeared in numerous journals. He teaches at Texas Southmost College.

MARTHA ELIZABETH, originally from Virginia, now works as a freelance editor and sometimes as a teacher in Denton, Texas. Her poems have recently appeared in Passages North and New Virginia Review.

GEORGE GOTT teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Superior. Two of his chapbooks, Birds and Horses and Watching the River, were published in 1984. His poems have also appeared in numerous journals and anthologies.

LEONARD LANG, Minneapolis, Minnesota, has published poetry in Cimmaron Review and Farmer’s Market, and was a recipient of the Loft-Mentor Award for Poetry. He also reviews books for public radio and newspapers, and for the past nine years has served as a communications consultant for businesses.

RACHEL LODEN, Palo Alto, California, has published poetry in Centennial Review, Southern Poetry Review, and other journals. Her work has also appeared in several anthologies, including The Uses of Poetry (Holt, Rinehart & Winston).

RACHELLE MARMOR is completing an MFA at Arizona State University. She also runs an entertainment management business in Tempe.

EDWARD MYCUE, San Francisco, has published eleven collections of poetry, most recently Since We Speak (1988), The Torn Star (1988), Edward (1987), and No One Four Free (1987).

KENNETH POBO is poetry editor of Widener Review, and has work coming out in Hawaii Review, Centennial Review, and Z Miscellaneous. He lives in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania.

MARK SANDERS, Ord, Nebraska, has taught at several colleges and universities, including the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he is currently finishing a Ph. D. in English. His most recent chapbook is The Suicide (1988).

PAUL N. SILAS, "until recently and at the time this poem was written and submitted, was an inmate at a federal prison. He chose to use this name during the period of his incarceration. He is now at a half-way house. Years ago, he published under another name in many journals with national reputations.” (Statement furnished by the Joyce Literary Corporation, Teaneck, New Jersey)

LAURA A. STORTONI, born in Italy and educated in Europe and America, has published translations of Italian poetry in San Marcos Review and Blue Unicorn. She has also contributed translations to Women Poets of the World (Macmillan), The Penguin Book of Women Poets, and has completed work on two other Renaissance poetry anthologies. She currently lives and teaches in Berkeley, California.

MARTHA VERTREACE has published one book of poetry, Second House from the Corner (1986), and has two more collections forthcoming. Her poems have appeared recently in Cottonwood, College English, and Hampton-Sydney Poetry Review. She teaches and is poet-in-residence at Kennedy-King College, Chicago.

STEVE WILSON has recently published poetry in The Literary Review and The Webster Review. An article on the prose poems of Russell Edson appeared in CEA Critic. He teaches at Southwest Texas State.

LISA YOUNT has published one book of poems, Stones and Bones, and her work has appeared in Minnesota Review, Anima, and other journals. She also writes educational material for children, articles about science, and fantasy stories.

EARL INGERSOLL delineates the similarities in male bonding exhibited in the lives and writings of Herman Melville and D. H. Lawrence. Associate Professor of English at the State University of New York, College at Brockport, Ingersoll here adds to previously published articles on D. H. Lawrence.

THOMAS MATCHIE argues that the parallels to Herman Melville's Moby-Dick in Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine both illuminate the plot and characters and reveal the human truths explored in the novel. Professor of English at North Dakota State University, Matchie has written articles on North Dakota and Minnesota writers, particularly poet Tom McGrath, and on Indian culture, and served in the North Dakota House and Senate for ten years.

ANNETTE SISSON examines the self-deluding artists James Joyce fashioned in The Dubliners to understand the meaning of creativity and involvement with life. Sisson is currently teaching literature and writing and finishing a dissertation on the novels of George Eliot and Thomas Hardy at Indiana University. This is her first full-length essay to be published.

In the view of WALTER POZNAR, the high seriousness Oscar Wilde is about in The Importance of Being Earnest is a comic appreciation of the playfulness and absorption in the everyday that is the real world, not an arid and erudite critique of Victorian hypocrisy. Author of articles on higher education, Shakespeare, Orwell, Isherwood, Graham Greene, C. Day Lewis, Doris Lessing, and the comic spirit, Poznar is Professor of Humanities at Saint Leo College in Florida.

WALTER SHEAR is a professor in the Pittsburg State Department of English with a specialty in American literature.

CHARLES CAGLE's biography of the Oklahoma regionalist painter, Charles Banks Wilson, will be published this year by the Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art.

ALVIN H. PROCTOR, retired Regents University Professor and former chairman of the Department of Social Science (among many other responsible posts here), is an unabashed native Kansan.

BARBARA PRYOR is a graduate student in the English department's Master of Arts program at Pittsburg State.

The Poetry Editor is interested in receiving poems on Native American subjects by writers of any racial or ethnic origin for a special poetry section of the Midwest Quarterly.

Jo McDougall, guest Poetry Editor for the Summer 1990 issue, is interested in receiving poems on all aspects of small-town life.

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