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The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

Contents

ARTICLES

Addiction and Emma Bovary

The Silent Protagonist: The Unifying Presence of Landscape in Willa Cather’s My

Beyond Grotesqueness in Winesburg, Ohio

Walt Whitman’s Political Poetics: The Therapeutic Function of “Children of Adam” and “Calamus”

Women, Slaves, and Family in Uncle Tom’s

Cabin: Symbolic Battleground in Antebellum America

Abraham Lincoln's Affinity for MacBeth

POEMS FOR NATIVE AMERICA

The Popul Vuh

A Gatherer's Love

Tezcatlipoca [Translated by Lowell Bergstedt and Laura Stortoni]

Of Light and Silence

The Old Portraits of the Indians

On American Education, 1744 [Adapted by Stephen Meats]

Seminole Finery

First Dialogue Between the Lone Ranger and Tonto

Second Dialogue Between the Lone Ranger and Tonto

Third Dialogue Between the Lone Ranger and Tonto

Fourth Dialogue Between the Lone Ranger and Tonto

In The Way

On Patterns in American History, 1829 [Adapted by Stephen Meats]

The Last Wild Indian In North America

Isleta Paintings

Indian Dawn

Chert Quarry

Head of the God of the Number Zero

The Heavenbound Canoe

Stillwater Marsh

Trajectory

Pearl

Tucson

The Buried Son: 1907

Vacation, 1943

Pawnee Buttes

Dream of an Indian

On the Future of America, 1855 [Adapted by Stephen Meats]

Waiting for Rain

REVIEWS

John Gould Fletcher; Arkansas

Philip Shaw Paludan; “A People’s Contest”: The Union and Civil War, 1861-1865

Arnold Rampersad; The Life of Langston Hughes Volume II, 1941-1967

Elbert B. Smith; The Presidencies of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore 

Abstract

in this issue. . .

PAUL H. SCHMIDT uses today’s understanding of addictive behavior to understand Flaubert’s Madame Bovary and her self-destructive actions. Assistant Professor of English at Georgia State University, Schmidt has published articles on 19th-century literature and autobiography. He is working on a book dealing with Victorian autobiography and editing the Fall 1990 special issue of Studies in the Literary Imagination on autobiography.

Willa Cather’s landscapes in My Ántonia, observes SHELLEY SAPOSNIK-NOIRE, illuminates both plot and character and propels the action toward its conclusion. A student in the writing department of Columbia University, Saposnik-Noire has had a one-act play produced off-off Broadway and is at work on a novel. This is her first published scholarly article.

ROBERT DUNNE examines the nature and purpose of the grotesque in Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio. A doctoral student at Lehigh, he is currently working on an article examining how American literary movements try to reevaluate popular myths. This is also his first scholarly article to be published.

MICHAEL E. ADAMS, a teacher of wilderness skills, safety, first aid, and environmental ethics, and part-time MFA student at Naropa Institute, has been writing poetry and prose for four years. He lives in Eldorado Springs, Colorado.

KELLY AVERILL has published poems recently in Plains Poetry Journal, Celibate Woman Journal, Dan River Anthology, and elsewhere. For the past year she has been working as a folklorist in Wilmington, North Carolina. Her poems have appeared in previous issues of The Midwest Quarterly.

LOWELL BERGSTEDT, an attorney, collaborated with Laura Anna Stortoni on the translation of the poem by Giuseppe Conte.

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. Her poems have appeared previously in The Midwest Quarterly.

JAMES BROCK has published poems in Carolina Quarterly, College English, Sycamore Review, and elsewhere, including two anthologies celebrating Idaho’s centennial. He teaches creative writing at Belmont College in Nashville, Tennessee.

JARED CARTER is the author of a book of poems, Work for the Night is Coming (Macmillan, 1981). One poem appeared in a recent issue of The Midwest Quarterly.

GIUSEPPE CONTE, of Liguria Italy, is the author of several volumes of poetry, including The Ocean and the Boy (1983), from which the poem published herein has been translated by Laura Anna Stortoni and Lowell Bergstedt.

JOHN ELROD, of Greenville, South Carolina, has had poems in Bellowing Ark, Anemone, Cat’s Eye, and The Inn, an anthology published by Suburban Wilderness Press of Minnesota.

CAROL HAMILTON has published numerous poems in such journals as Christian Science Monitor, Arizona Quarterly, Stone Country, and many others. She has published one novel, The Dawn Seekers. She teaches humanities to gifted children in Midwest City, Oklahoma.

MICHAEL JOHNSON, head of the English department at the University of Kansas, has a number of books of poetry to his credit. The Birds From I Know Where (Cottonwood), translations of Spanish poetry, appeared last summer.

PETER LUDWIN, of Seattle, Washington, has been writing and publishing poetry for a number of years. A professional counselor, he has also worked as a postman, salesman, general laborer, food vendor, fruit picker, folk musician, and folk music teacher.

JO McDOUGALL has published one book of poetry, The Woman in the Next Booth (BkMk, 1987), and several chapbooks. Recent poems have appeared in Louisiana Literature and The Midwest Quarterly. She will be serving as guest poetry editor of Midwest Quarterly (Summer 1990) for a special issue of poems on small town issues and subjects.

STEPHEN MEATS is poetry editor of The Midwest Quarterly. His poems have appeared recently in Laurel Review, Widener Review, and The Quarterly. He also serves as administrator for the Roberts Writing Awards.

LEN MESSINEO is the head of the Art & Music Division at the Wichita Public Library. His poems have appeared in From Here Press, Road Apple Review, and Mikrokosmos.

WILLIAM MILLER has recently published poems in The Southern Poetry Review, Poet & Critic, The Cimarron Review, and other journals.

AL ORTOLANI published a book of poems, The Last Hippie of Camp Fifty (Woodley), in 1988. Recent poems have appeared or will be appearing in The Quarterly, The English Journal, Earthwise, and Wilderness. He teaches English and creative writing at Pittsburg (Kansas) High School.

BIFF RUSS, of Crawfordsville, Indiana, has published poetry in Wisconsin Review, Indiana Review, Mid-American Review, and various other journals. One of her poems appeared in a recent issue of The Midwest Quarterly.

GARY SHORT is completing an MFA at Arizona State University. His poems are forthcoming in Chariton Review, 5 AM, Poetry East, and the anthology, Seven Nevada poets.

LAURA A. STORTONI, born in Italy and education 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 Penquin Book of Women Poets, and has completed work on two other Renaissance poetry anthologies. She

currently lives and teaches in Berkeley, California. One of her original poems appeared recently in The Midwest Quarterly.

CAROL TUFTS teaches dramatic literature at Oberlin College. She has published articles on the drama of Chekhov, Ibsen, and Shakespeare, and has recently returned to writing poetry. One of her poems will soon be appearing in Iowa Woman.

ROBERT WEXELBLATT has published frequent articles in The Midwest Quarterly but these are his first poems to appear here. Other recent poems have appeared or will be appearing in Hawaii Review, The Literary Review, The Cape Rock, and Stone Country. Three of his short stories are due out soon in Small Pond. He teaches at Boston University.

GEORGE YOUNG is a physician practicing medicine in Boulder, Colorado. His poems have also been accepted by Painted Bride Quarterly, Rhino, New Mexico Humanities Review, and Z Miscellaneous.

By awakening them to their minds and bodies and to their relationships with each other, Walt Whitman, suggests EDWARD M. WHEAT, sought to reanimate Americans and rekindle their democratic principles. Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of American Studies at the University of Southern Mississippi, Wheat has research interests in politics and literature, political culture and socialization, and public · administration. One

recent work considering the effect of administrative rationalization on the traditional political culture of the states of the Old Confederacy appeared as a chapter in Contemporary Southern Politics.

CARL E. KROG discusses the portrayal of slaves, women, and other family members in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Southern response both in an idealized view of patriarchy and in literary efforts to refute the book. Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin Center, Marinette, Krog has published articles on the development of the northern Wisconsin lumbering town of Marinette in the 19th century and topics as various as the fall of Vietman [sic.] and Herbert Hoover and conservation.

Abraham Lincoln, writes JAMES A. STEVENSON, found much to ponder in Shakespeare's MacBeth, but he did not share the Scotsman's hopeless fatalism. Assistant Professor of History at East Georgia College in Swainsboro, Stevenson has published several articles on David DeLeon and Lincoln.

WILLARD B. GATEWOOD, JR., Professor of History, and formerly Chairman of the department at the University of Arkansas and University Chancellor, is immediate past president of the Southern Historical Association.

WILLIAM E. PARRISH, Professor of History at Mississippi State University, is a Civil War historian specializing in Missouri’s unhappy experience in that struggle. He is immediate past president of Phi Alpha Theta, the international honor society in history.

WALTER SHEAR, Professor in the PSU Department of English, teaches American literature courses and contributes frequently to our review pages.

ROBERT K. RATZLAFF, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of History here, specializes in Southern history, particularly in the ante-bellum decades.

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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