The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought
Contents
ARTICLES
"Anti-War" Isn't Always Anti-War
National Interest: A Neglected Element of American Foreign Policy
A Consideration of the Role of the History of Science in the Philosophy of Science
Murder, Booze, and Sex: Three Perspectives on the Roaring Twenties
Small Town Missouri in 1890
The Chief Prosecutor of President Andrew Johnson
POEMS
Ella's Son Brings her Gifts from Riverview Cemetery
Firefly
When the Wild Geese Move Past the Mercantile in a Long Body, Dancing
When Mother Receives Gentlemen Visitors
Under the Mountain
A Planetary Directory
Dream of Grand Teton
Segesta
Unanswered Letters
Blackbird
The Ford Plant at River Rouge--1930
What Happened Was
The Artist's Lady
The End of Summer
Lust
Minding Our Business
Close to Home
Similes for the Sun
Five Settings
My Father's Wisdom
The Corner
The Bull God
Interjection XIII: An Epitaph for Someone
Breakfast Lovers
Blue: Steps
REVIEW
R. Baird Shuman; William Inge
Abstract
in this issue. . .
MICHAEL C. C. ADAMS examines anti-war literature and finds much of it glorifies the experience, despite its realism and criticism of those far from the theater of combat. Professor of History at Northern Kentucky University, Adams's book, Our Masters the Rebels: A Speculation on Union Military Failure in the East, 1861-1865, will this year be joined by The Great Adventure: Male Desire and the Coming of World War One.
Finding the 1988 presidential campaign short on substance and the electorate insufficiently familiar with the concept, ROBERT W. SELLEN explores national interest historically and suggests the nation's current agenda. Professor of History at Georgia State University, Sellen has published widely on the topic of American foreign policy from independence to Vietnam.
To what extent is an appeal to the actual history of science necessary to, useful in, or misleading for, the philosophy of science? This topic THOMAS M. NORTON-SMITH develops by discussing current protagonists and offering his own conclusion. Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Kent State University (Stark Campus), Norton-Smith has interests in metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophy of mathematics, and he is currently formulating an account of arithmetical reality.
DIANE AVERILL of Portland, Oregon, has published poetry in Colorado Review, Poet & Critic, Seattle Review, and other magazines. She teaches at Lewis & Clark College and at Portland Community College. Her poems have appeared previously in The Midwest Quarterly.
POLLY BRODY's poetry has appeared in many journals, including Blue Unicorn, Ball State University Forum, and Connecticut River Review. Her poems have won numerous prizes. She lives in Newtown, Connecticut.
TOM CHANDLER, Providence, is a poetry instructor at the Rhode Island School of Design. His poems have appeared in New York Quarterly, Alabama Literary Review, Bitterroot, and other journals. His first book of poems, The Sound the Moon Makes As It Watches, was recently published by The Poet's Press.
ELIZABETH CHARLTON, Nashville, Tennessee, recently returned to writing poetry after pursuing an acting and modeling career for ten years. Her poems have appeared in Mill Street's New Poetry Review, Ambrosia, Riverrun, and other journals.
BRUCE CUTLER had a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship for Poetry for 1989. His recent work has appeared in Poetry, Poetry Northwest, and Shenandoah. His most recent book is the narrative poem, Dark Fire (BkMk/UMKC Press, 1985). He lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
MYRON ERNST's poems have appeared in Hollins Critic, MSS, Laurel Review, and other journals. His poems have also appeared previously in The Midwest Quarterly. He lives in Vestal, New York.
W. K. DOLPHIN has recently moved from Mexico to Hayfork, California, where he operates the Silver Spring Mountain Retreat for writers and meditators. In addition to poems in Mademoiselle, Beloit Poetry Journal, Cottonwood Review, and other journals, his published works also include stories and translations from French and German. His most recent book of poems is Skidmarks (Sparrow Hawk Press, 1977).
J. B. GOODENOUGH's poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Yankee Hudson Review, and more than 300 other journals. Her first book of poems was Dower Land (Cleveland SU Poetry Center, 1984), and her second has recently been accepted by St. Andrews Press in North Carolina. Formerly of Boston, she now lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
CAROL GRANATO of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has published poems in many magazines, including Blue Unicorn, Higginson Journal, and The Lyric.
KEVIN GRIFFITH is a graduate student at The Ohio State University and is editor of The And Review. His poems have appeared in Mid-American Review, Minnesota Review, Ellipsis, and other journals.
JAY GRISWOLD of Littleton works as a park ranger for the Colorado Division of Parks. His second book, The Book of Insomnia, will soon be published by Linwood Publishers. Recent poems have appeared in Soundings East, Writer's Forum, and Southern Poetry Review.
FRITZ HAMILTON of San Francisco does what he can to get by, anything from day labor to dishwasher. His recent publications include poems in Kansas Quarterly, Poetry Australia, New York Quarterly, and other journals. His seventh book of poems was recently published by Minotaur Press.
ROBERT HARLOW, Delmar, New York, since his last appearance in The Midwest Quarterly, is still adjuncting at SUNY and a local community college, still carpentering, still clerking a
couple of nights and weekends at the 7-11. Hasn't done much writing since his recent marriage, but maybe will get back to it after plowing the back forty next spring.
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 from Spanish poetry, appeared last summer. One of his poems appeared in the previous issue of The Midwest Quarterly.
JOE SALERNO lives with his wife and three children on the second Watchung Mountain in north central New Jersey. He received his doctorate in American literature in 1975, but does not teach and believes all poets should be preparing their poetics for the third millenium.
DANIEL JAMES SUNDAHL lives and writes in Hillsdale, Michigan. He teaches at Hillsdale College.
JIM THOMAS lives and writes in Kirksville, Missouri. He teaches at Northeast Missouri State University.
STEVE WILSON has recently published poems in The Literary Review, The Webster Review, and The Midwest Quarterly. His critical article on the prose poetry of Russell Edson was published in CEA Critic. He lives in San Marcos, Texas.
WILLIAM L. BURTON invites us to see the reality often obscured by symbol and cant in three transcendent images of the 1920s in America: the Sacco-Vanzetti trial, Prohibitionism, and the Flapper. Burton is Professor of History and Academic Director of Travel-Study Programs at Western Illinois University. Most recently author of Melting Pot Soldiers: The Union's Ethnic Regiments, he is currently researching the consequences of the Repeal of Prohibition.
Testing the hypothesis that Missouri in 1890 exhibited a bumpy transition from the comforts of an old order to the anxieties of the new, LAWRENCE O. CHRISTENSEN's examination of five small-town newspapers reveals little of the anticipated turmoil. Professor of History at the University of Missouri-Rolla, Christensen includes among his publications histories of the state of Missouri and of his university.
John A. Bingham, leader in the attempt to remove Andrew Johnson from office, found the sources of his action in his education, religion, and in his wife's views, according to ERVING E. BEAUREGARD. Professor of History at the University of Dayton, Beauregard has authored several books on Ohio topics and many articles on African history, his specialty.
CHARLES CAGLE, who teaches at Pittsburg State and serves as Fine Arts consultant for KRPS, PSU's FM Public Radio station, is the author of a recent biography of Oklahoma artist Charles Banks Wilson.
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Recommended Citation
Adams, Michael C. C.; Sellen, Robert W.; Norton-Smith, Thomas M.; Burton, William L.; Christensen, Lawrence O.; Beauregard, Erving E.; Averill, Diane; Brody, Polly; Chandler, Tom; Charlton, Elizabeth; Cutler, Bruce; Dolphin, W. K.; Ernst, Myron; Goodenough, J. B.; Granato, Carol; Griffith, Kevin; Griswold, Jay; Hamilton, Fritz; Harlow, Robert; Johnson, Michael L.; Salerno, Joe; Sundahl, Daniel J.; Thomas, Jim; Wilson, Steve; Cagle, Charles; and Midwest Quarterly Editors
(1990)
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