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The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

Contents

ARTICLES 

From Vermeer to Bonnard: Updike's Interartistic Mode in Marry Me  

Virginia Woolf s Evolving Optimism in The Waves, The Years, and Three Guineas  

Violence and Sacrifice in Mauriac's Thérèse Desqueyroux  

Wilfred Owen on John Donne: "You've got a hell of a breath"  

Twain's Search for Reality in Life on the Mississippi  

Gerald Nash's American West: A Modest Appraisal  

POEMS 

Introduction to Bioacoustics 

This  

Processional 

Study  

Apology  

Sin  

Sometimes Something Soft  

Wait For Me  

Aubade, or Morning Lovesong  

where light has touched 

resurrection  

Other  

Fishing Nights for Raccoons  

Blue Sky  

What We Become  

Old Woman and 25 Cats  

REVIEWS 

Chester J. Pach, Jr. and Elmo Richardson; The Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower  

Christopher Phillips; Damned Yankee: The Life of General Nathaniel Lyon  

Abstract

Nicely blending his training in the visual arts with his verbal skills, as MALCOLM O. MAGAW shows, John Updike in Marry Me produces a fuller understanding of his characters and a richer tapestry for his readers. Professor of English at the University of New Orleans, Magaw has published essays on Hawthorne, Melville, Thoreau, Yeats, Keats, Warren, Bellow, Walker Percy, Hemingway, and Cheever. He has had two previous publications in The Midwest Quarterly and is working currently on Malamud.

Seeing in the worldview of women a new way of grasping reality and of reshaping the world for the better, HELEN F. MAXSON writes, Virginia Woolf pointed the way to a necessary evolution of society though the different and clearer perception of women over that of men then dominant. Assistant Professor of English at South- western Oklahoma State University, Maxson is currently working on a short story, an essay on Woolf s biographical sketches, and has recently published a personal essay on the Oklahoma landscape.

In the view of TIMOTHY J. WILLIAMS, François Mauriac's character of Thérèse Desqueyroux represents the sacrificial victim, a way of coming to terms with modern society's intolerable violence. Now completing his doctoral work in French literature at the University of Kansas, Williams is Assistant Professor of Foreign Languages at Pittsburg State University. He has previously published on the notions of "time" and "presence" in the Pensees of Pascal and is currently studying sacrificial violence in the works of Balzac.

RICHARD BADENHAUSEN traces the influence of John Donne on the war poetry of Wilfred Owen. Assistant Professor of English at Marshall University, Badenhausen has written articles on T.S. Eliot and is now completing a book on that poet's dramatic theory and practice.

DON BOES of Louisville, Kentucky, has been a resident at the MacDowell and Ragdale writers colonies and received Al Smith Poetry Fellowships from the Kentucky Arts Council in 1986 and 1990.

CHRISTOPHER COKINOS lives in Manhattan, Kansas, and is finishing a master of fine arts degree in poetry at Washington University in St. Louis. His poems have appeared previously in The Midwest Quarterly.

ANNE COLWELL lives and writes in Newark, Delaware. PHILIP DACEY recently won the Piper Poetry Award for his fifth book of poetry, Night Shift at the Crucifix Factory, published by the University of Iowa Press in 1991. New poems of his have appeared in The Southern Review, Shenandoah, The Hudson Review, and other journals. He lives in Lynd, Minnesota. His poems have appeared previously in The Midwest Quarterly.

KEVIN GRIFFITH of Columbus, Ohio, is the co-editor of The And Review and has published poems recently in The Southern Review, The Quarterly edited by Gordon Lish, and Yankee.

WILLIAM JOLIFF is director of the writing workshop at Messiah College and edits the Rolling Coulter. His work has appeared in numerous journals, including The Explicator, Negative Capability, and Wind. He also plays in a bluegrass band and lives in Grantham, Pennsylvania.

KATHLEEN M. McCANN is a master of fine arts student at Washington University in St. Louis. Her work has appeared in Sojourner, Dark Horse, Whiskey Island Magazine, and other journals. Besides writing poetry, she is also a psychotherapist.

JANE McCLELLAN teaches high school English in Ocala, Florida. Her poems have recently appeared in Re: Arts and Letters, Appalachian Heritage, Soundings East, and other journals.

ANDREA MOORHEAD is editor of Osiris, and has published three volumes of poetry, of which The Snows of Troy (Osiris Press, 1988) is most recent. She has published translations in American Poetry Review and other journals. She lives in Deerfield, Massachusetts.

GIANFRANCO PAGNUCCI, Platteville, Wisconsin, has published three books of poetry, including New Roads Old Towns, and several books for teachers and children. His essays have appeared in Christian Science Monitor and Commonweal, and his poems have been published in numerous journals and anthologies, including News of the Universe, edited by Robert Bly.

STEPHEN PERRY has published poems recently in Sewanee Review, Nimrod, Beloit Poetry Journal, and numerous other journals. Two of his poems were recently accepted by The New Yorker, and he has received recognition in five recent national writing contests, including the Chester H. Jones National Poetry Competition and the Roberts Writing Awards. He lives in Los Angeles, California.

BERTHA ROGERS lives near Delhi in New York's Catskill Mountains. She has published one collection of poetry, The Reason of Trees. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Poems from the Earth (1990). Beside writing poetry, she also works as a painter and designer.

MARYFRANCES WAGNER teaches creative writing in Raytown, Missouri. She has published two collections of poetry, Bandaged Watermelons and other Rusty Ducks and Tonight Cicadas Sing. She has edited an anthology of Missouri poets and has published widely in small press journals.

GAIL WHITE edits the Piedmont Literary Review in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana.

Looking back at his earlier analysis of life on the Mississippi River, as MARILYN LANCASTER suggests, Mark Twain turned his initial romanticism into a fictional study of illusion and reality. Author of articles on the basic writer, Lancaster is Assistant Professor of English at Western Texas College.

Umbrage may be sulfurous or acidulous, but JAMES C. WORK takes it with gusto and humor as well, so enjoying his anguish that historian Gerald Nash might well swear off literature as a Held best left to others. Teacher of Western American literature at Colorado State University, where he is Professor of English, Work is President of the Western Literature Association and is editor of Prose and Poetry of the American West, an anthology published in 1991 by the University of Nebraska Press, and recently won an award from the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies for publication of his book of essays, Following Where The River Begins.

FRED B. MISSE, professor of American history, specializes in twentieth- century America with emphasis on diplomatic and political history.

DUDLEY T. CORNISH, Emeritus Professor of History and book review editor of The Midwest Quarterly, is primarily interested in the American Civil War.

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