The South Carolina Review

Volume 38, Number 2 Spring 2006

The South Carolina Review, Volume 38, No. 2, Spring 2006 ispublished by Clemson University.

ej2006 Clemson University. ISSN: 0038-3163

EDITOR: Wayne Chapman.

FICTION EDITOR: Keith Morris

BOOK REVIEW EDITOR: Mark Royden Winchell.

CLEMSON U..ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Ryan Van Cleave ' :—: f}iC5]T-\ IP

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C 0 N T E N T s

ESSAYS

James Ballowe • The Reinventions of Laurence Lieberman ........................................................... 17 Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina • Bushmen and Blackface: Bloomsbury and ''Race" .................... .46

Wayne K. Chapman• J...,ast Respeas: The Posthumous Editing of Virginia Woo![ and Sylvia Plath .... 65 Elizabeth Anderson Stansell • ''.f omebocfy Else Will Have to Write Their Poems''.· Ted Hughes

and the Evolution of 'Skylarks" ............................................................................................. 72 Patricia L. Bradley• Robert Penn Warren, Thomas Wo!fe, and the Problem of Autobiograpfy ...... 136

William Bedford Clark• Warren and Pasinetti: A Stucfy in Friendship ................................... 146 Joseph Scotchie • Warren, Bellow and the Changing Tides ....................................................... 155

Steven D. Ealy• ';4 Friendship That Has Meant So Much": Robert Penn Warren and Ralph W Ellison ................................................................................................................ 162

Daniel Cross Turner• Modern Primitives: Mergings in the Poetry of Robert Penn Warren and James Dickey ................................................................................................................. 173

Joseph Milli chap • Robert Penn Warren, David Milch, and the Literary Contexts of Deadwood ... 183

FICTION

Nathan Leslie• The Fire Pit ..................................................................................................... 116

Heather Herrman• Monsoon ................................................................................................... 129 Margaret Hermes • Primo Class .............................................................................................. 200

Stephen Morison • Love Stories ............................................................................................... 207

Gary Fin eke • Dead in Dog Years ............................................................................................. 223 E. B. Vandiver• Fast Like That ............................................................................................... 233 Nie Brown• The Neighbor's Yard ............................................................................................. 241

IN ME!v!ORIAM

Skip Eisiminger, et al • Fred Shi/stone, 1948-2005 ................................................................. 108

Mark Royden Winchell• Robert Penn Warren: Genius Loves Company ................................. 135

INTERVIEW

Duff Brenna• Secondary Educations: An Interview with Greg Herriges ...................................... 33

POETRY

Laurence Lieberman• The Illimitable Line: Lessons of the Wax Pen ........................................... 3 Susan Meyers• Shelling, Hunting Island ..................................................................................... 26

Carolyn l\foore • The Cul-de-Sac's Crone Censures Her Neighbor with Quince ............................ 27 Cheryl Ruggiero • Last Anthropology Lecture of Professor Marietta Stanfield ............................. 28 Jason l\filler • The Wood Ibis ........................................................................................................ 29

Richard Taylor• A Brief Hfrtory of Ordinary Things ................................................................. 30 Terri McCord • Color Theories ..................................................................................................... 32 Scott Glassman• }oure Right ..................................................................................................... 45 Earl Coleman• The Man Who Took Her Awcry From All That ................................................ 97 Kathryn Kirkpatrick• Made in Mexico• Post-Lapsan·an . ......................................................... 98 Tom Jamieson • Pete Johnson on Piano ........................................................................................ 99

Gilbert ,\lien• The Very Last Supper ...................................................................................... 101

Jan Bailey • The Garden • Bardo ............................................................................................... 102

Travis Wayne Denton • Open Windows• Unplanning Our Lives ........................................... 104

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Charles t-f. Israel, Jr. • Cooking Poem ...................................................................................... 106 Frederick Foote • The Hurt Fadqyeen ...................................................................................... 107 Elisabeth Murawski • Poetic Justice .......................................................................................... 128 K. Naomi Hann• Dog Star ..................................................................................................... 134

Jack Granath• Dream of Death ................................................................................................ 145 Harambee Grey-Sun• Belligerent Design ................................................................................. 161 Paul Freidinger • Demons in a Low Country Summer .............................................................. 192 Lisa Hammond Rashley • i/Vards for the Boo Hag .................................................................. 194 Ruth Holzer• The Ontological Cafe• Woman at a Counter, Smoking, NYC ........................ 195Ben Greer • Old Blood• The Annual Pi?Jsical. ......................................................................... 196Kimberly L. Becker • Sebago Lake .......................................................................................... 198 Chad Prevost• The Man with the Artifitial Heart ................................................................... 199Tom Holmes • This is It ........................................................................................................... 206 l\Iitchell l\'Ietz • After the Film .................................................................................................. 215 SonjaJames • The WhiteSpider inMyHand ........................................................................... 216 Larsen Bowker• 1-/Vhen the River Runs Clear ........................................................................... 216 Christine Kravetz • Ascension Dqy .......................................................................................... 217 Jenny Benjamin-Smith• Mother's Dqy • Feeding ..................................................................... 218 James B. Goode • Flight From Logic For a Young Professor Presenting 'Veviate, Alchemize:

Snrrealism and the Dreams Dreams Are Made OJ" ......................................................... 220T. Alan Broughton • fu111ning Into Age ................................................................................... 220

Jean-1\Iark Sens • Ant Wire Sculpture • Nude at Rowan Oak ................................................. 221 Dan S tryk • Sleeping fry the River, Nearing F iJly Dn·zzle IVetting My Gruff Beard .................. 248Laura Hope-Gill• Siesta Kry Sestina .......... ............................................................................. 249 Ronald l\Ioran • Man 1¥'ith a Metal Detector, Ear!J Morning 011 the Beach • My Mother

Likes Her Coffee Strong ..................................................................................................... 250Lisken Van Pelt Dus• Disintegration• Homemade Pasta ........................................................ 251

Lyn Lifshin • Fashion City ........................................................................................................ 253 Edith Cheitman • F-Stop-An lnlervieiv ................................................................................. 254 Ronald Briggs• Agee's A/1-Nighter .......................................................................................... 255Peter Ludwin • Fox ................................................................................................................... 256 Pa ulann Petersen • IV l;ry the 1./Vorld Isn 'I Fial ........................................................................... 25 7 Fred D. White• Deep-Sea Secrets• Divorce .............................................................................. 258

REVIEWS

James P. Cantrel• Walking Toward Redemption ....................................................................... 259 Helen Marie Casey • A Risk-taking Feat ................................................................................ 260

Jennifer Lauren Collins • A Sampling of Moments ................................................................. 263

Charis Chapman •Just a Touch of Love ................................................................................... 266 Skye Suttie • A L/Velcoming Overabundance o

f Modernism ......................................................... 268

Catharine Savage Brosman • Doing justice to the Visible ........................................................ 269

.-\.llison Brooke Kerns • U,!fulftlled Ambition ......................................................................... 272Linda Lappin • Unabashed, Astringent Satire ........................................................................... 274 Wayne K. Chapman• Peace Projects ........................................................................................ 276 Elizabeth Anderson Stansell • Teetering on the Brink ............................................................ 277

CoNTRIBLITORs ........................................................................................................................... 278