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The South Carolina Review

Volume 36, Number 2 (Spring 2004)

The South Carolina Review, Volume 36, No. 2, Spring 2004 ispublished by Clemson University.®2004 Clemson University. ISSN: 0038-3163

E D I T O R S :Richard J. Calhoun, Editor Emeritus.Wayne Chapman.

BOOK REVIEW EDITOR:Mark Royden WincheU.

ASSOCIATEEDITORS: CLEMSON UNIVERSITYKeith Morris (Fiction). DIGITAL PRESSRyan Van Cleave (Poetry).

ADVISORY BOARD:Susanna Ashton, Ray Barfield, Alma Bennett, Hallman B. Bryant, Sterling Eisiminger, HeatherHerrman, Martin Jacobi, G. William Koon, Todd Pierce, Mark Powell, Frederick W. Shilstone,John Smith, Elisa Sparks, C. Harold Woodell, and Steve Woodward.

BUSINESS MANAGER:

Rebecca Teixeira.

EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS :Charis Chapman, Rebecca Evans, Kevin Manus, Angela Price, and Jennifer Collins.

COVER PHOTOGRAPH:

"Christopher Dickey" by courtesy of the Strom Thurmond Institute, Clemson University.

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C O N T E N T

ESSAYS

Christopher Dickey • Firebombings: From My Father's Wars to Mine 5John L. Idol, Jr. • Muting the Satirist: The Satire of Thomas Wolfe's O Lost 90Shawn Holliday • Thomas Wolfe's "Web of Earth" and Modernist Orality 97Shelley Sharp Dirst • From The Hour-Glass to At the Hawk's Well: Revisions

toward an Idealised Theater 120Mark I. West • Godzilla and His Progeny: Why American Children Like Japanese

Monsters 154

FICTIONStephen Jones • Captivity Narrative 109 19Michael Doherty • Those Tender Mayfly Childhood Sweetheart Games 47W. S. Doxey • Bear IllMelvin Sterne • Thanksgiving 137Daniel Presnell • Mermaids of the Saluda 161

INTERVIEW

William Baer • On the Waterfront: An Interview with Budd Schulberg 27

POETRY

Ace Boggess • Religious Leaders Urge Tolerance Among Faiths 4Margaret Muirhead • Night Swimming at Walden 18Kathleen Flenniken • Calling Up Ghosts 23Virgil Suarez • ColdRun, orGearheadArsPoetica 24Virgil Suarez • Coil 24Virgil Suarez • Dagger 25Virgil Suarez • San Martin de Poms Calls Himself "Perro Mulato" 25Gail White • Post Diagnosis 26Susanne Kort • Morning 42John Davis • Mortification 43John Davis • The Trek 43Judith Strasser • What It Takes to Restore the Tall-Grass Prairie 44RickPiefT^JM 46Thomas Luedtke • Back Hair 45Jan Bailey • Plate of Oranges 59Ronald Moran • Bacchus 60Ronald Moran • Joey's Compasses 60Ronald Moran • Jonathan's Prologue 61Ronald Moran • Jonathan's Poems 62Ron McFarland • TheNern 104Ron McFarland • Wordsworth and Weyerhauser 104Patricia Roth Schwartz 'Fly-Boy 105

THE SOUTH CAROLINA REVIEW

Elisabeth Murawski • April'in Martins Ferry, Ohio 106Elisabeth Murawski • Old Picture: Mother and Daughter 107John McKernan • Your Mother's Fingerprint 108John McKernan • Fifth Grade Cloak Room 109David Rachel • Partisans 110Mary Ellis Gibson • Carolina Snow 115Peter Ludwin • New Year's Day on the Natche^ Trace 116Gary Every ' Apache Bats 117Scott Brennan • The Ghosts of Mexico City 118John Struloeff • Logger, 43, Divorced 119Lyn Lifshin • Because of This We Were Late, Everything Got Mixed Up, Later I

Broke the Door. Or, the Leaving. 134James Doyle • Wine Tasting 135James Doyle • The Deer Have Impeccable Clocks 135Brad Buchanan • The Second Chance 136Jennifer MacPhetson • Battle Music 153Carl Auerbach • Academic Advertisement 158Julie Hill Barton • Sinker 159William Jolliff • Honey Hollowed and the War, Youth Explosion '73 160Yvonne Higgins Leach • Born Again to my Father 164

THE REPUBLIC OF LETTERS

Skip Eisirninger • An English Friendship 64Vince Clemente • Some Lines—Lifelines—in John Ciardi 71Steven Frye • Epitaph 82

REVIEWS.

Anis Shivani • We Are All Balkan Today .• 165Carmel Jordan • Blossoms of the Rarest Type 169Skip Eisiminger • So Much of Fragmentary Blue 171Skip Eisiminger 'A Bowl of Cherries 173Helen Marie Casey • What Shipley Harvests 174Matthew Brennan • The Shape of a Story 178Randall Ivey • Everything Old Is New Again 179Jeff Love • Russia and the Modern World 182Jennifer L. Collins • Humanity and Nature 184Susan Meyers • Paying Attention to the World 187

CONTRIBUTORS , 191

EDITOR'S NOTE: As we go to press, we sadly acknowledge the death (on March 18, 2004) ofEditor Emeritus RichardJ. Calhoun. As one of the founding editors, he will be rememberedby his friends and colleagues in a special tribute planned for the Fall 2004 issue of The SouthCarolina Review, which will be dedicated to him. —WKC