The South Carolina Review

Volume 35, Number 1 (Fall 2002)

The South Carolina Review, Volume 35, No. 1, Fall 2002 is

published by Clemson University.

(02002 Clemson University. ISSN: 0038-3163

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O N T E N

ESSAYS

Peter G. Murphy • Virtues of Romanticism in Simm's "Jocassee, a Cherokee Legend" 40Virginia Hyde • D. H. Lawrence, W. B. Yeats, and the Rosa Mundi 68Roger Rollin • "And Laughter holding both his sides": Milton as Humorist, Part One 133

FICTIONKim Chinquee • Jesus 19Scott Farrin • Buffalo Speedway 29Kurt Rheinheimer • The Stop 53Rob Roensch • Hush 88Jim Henry • There's Nothing 94Page Hodgen • Heartaches I l lDavid Tillinghast • Calico Rock Cave 169

INTERVIEWS

Timothy S. Sedore • "American Opera ": An Interview with Richard Rodrigue^ 5William Baer • Tender Mercies: ̂ 4 Conversation with Horton Foote 119

PERSONAL ESSAY

Kaye Longberg • Remembrance 189

POE'lllY

Virgil Suarez • En Eljardin de los EspejosQuebrados, Caliban Catches a Glimpse of HisReflection 3

Devin Brown • The Way of the New Poet 4Jesse Lee Kercheval • Blue 16Fred Chappell • Are the Scientists Keeping Close Tabs 17Fred Chappell • Bringing in the Oaks 17Barbara Crocker • The Winds of November 18Robert Parham • Dark 27Robert Parham • The Nineteenth Hole, With Billy Collins 27Robert Parham • Perch 28David Lawrence • Nighty 37Gary Every • York the Mandan Dancer 38Anne Pierson Wiese • Undergrowth 39Edmund August • How to Peel a Potato 64Patricia Murphy • BillWilliams 65Susanne Kort • Blur 66Janet Krauss • A Poem about a Broken Bucket After Yoshitosi Taiso's Painting 67Linda Avila • Those Who've Gone Before 82Catharine Savage Brosman • Carnations 83

THE SOUTH CAROLINA REVIEW

Catharine Savage Brosman • GreatPins 83Ronald D. Bnggs • Knoxville 84Kim Bridgford • Anorexic Sonnet f 86Kim Bridgford • Ars Poetica 86Lyn Lifshin • Georgia O'KeejfesHills and Mesa 87Lyn Lifshin • Georgia O 'Keeffe JT Ram's Head with Hollyhocks 87Peter Layton • Price-Waterhouse 93Joann Lee Farias • Celtoiberians 106Tom McFadden • The Rag Tree 109Tom McFadden • The Rendering 110Jerome L. McElroy • Sixteen 1954 117David Berry • TET (31 January 1968) 118James Magorian • Growing Mushrooms 130Lynn Veach Sadler • Waiting Game 131Michael Skau • The Shining 132Tom McFadden • The Rag Tree 132Richard N. Bently • Onion 148Ava Leavell Haymon • Gha^al (from Ghalih, Gha^allV) 149Ava Leavell Haymon • Ideograph 149Kristin Berkey-Abbott • Medieval Christmas Pageants 150Yonesca Stroud • Souvenirs 178Chad Chisholm • Ode to Ginsberg 187Aimee Nezhukumatathil • Origin of the Mango 188Susan Wheatley • The Barges at Night 191

Ti i i - Ri ^PUBLIC oi; LIHTKRS

Sterling Eisiminger • 'A/right" Is All Wrong, or Is It? Reflections on Orthography 151Anesa Miller • Traveling Companions 158Paula K. Speck • Santiago Tilapa 158

RKvmwEssAY

David Middle tori • The Old Responsibilities: Measured Verse Restored 179

RKVII-WS

John Ferryman • Rough Rider's Life 192Mark G. Malvasi • Allen Tale in the 1990s: The Man of Letters in the Post-Modern World . 194Charles Israel • A Novel of Conflicts 202James Emmett Ryan • A Peopled World 203William Pratt • A Poetic Epitaph 207Randall Kent Ivey • The Novelist Without a Country 209Timothy S. Sedore • Puritan Gravitas 212

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