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CLEMSON UNIVERSITY

Volume 48, Number 1 Fall 2015

The South Carolina Review, Volume 48, No. 1, Fall 2015is published by Clemson University. ISSN: 0038-3163e2015 Clemson University.

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EDITOR: Wayne Chapman.

FICTION EDITOR: Keith Morris.

BOOK REVIEW EDITOR: Cameron Bushnell.

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS:Sterling Eisminger, John Morgenstern, Catherine Paul, and Rhondda Thomas.

ADVISORY BOARD:Susanna Ashton, Ray Barfield, Nic Brown, Jonathan Field, Michael LeMahieu, KimberlyManganelli, Dominic Mastroianni, Brian McGrath, Angela Naimou, Angelina Oberdan, JohnPursley, Aga Skrodzka, and Jillian Weise.

BUSINESS MANAGER: John Morgenstern.

ACCOUNTING FISCAL ANALYST: Beverly Pressley.

EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS:Charis Chapman, Teneshia Head, and Karen Stewartg.

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C O N T E N T S

ESSAYSThomas E. Kennedy • Negative Capability and John Cheever's "The Swimmer" 9Donald Pizer • Robert Stone's Early Novels: An Approach through Form 31Gordon Van Ness • James Dickey, Aleixcmdre, and the Question of Poetic Creativity 69Catharine Savage Brosman • "Nature Untamed" in Nineteenth-Century Francophone

Louisiana Literature 83Allen Mendenhall • Pragmatism on the Shoulders of Emerson: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. s

Jurisprudence as a Synthesis of Emerson, Peirce, James, and Dewey 93Roy Scheele • Complementary Landscapes: Frost's "Directive" and Grant Wood's Stone

City, Iowa 117Joseph Millichap • "The Language of Vision": Walker Evans and American Literature 123Stephanie Coyne DeGhett • Postcards in Short Fiction: The Spin Rack of Possibilities 168Matthew C. Brennan • Mary Shelley's Cinematic Progeny: The Fidelity 0/~Young

Frankenstein 193

FICTIONEugene Dubnov • On Riga Beach 3Sonja Condit • By Moonlight 41Nancy Bourne • The Columbia 62Ryan Rickrode • Weights and Measures 137Talia Baron • David and Lisa 147Gary Fincke • What's Next? 155Ryan Meany • Bama 175

INTERVIEWGreg Herriges • Kennedy in Copenhagen: Beneath the Neon Egg—An Interview with

Thomas E. Kennedy 16

POETRYJim Daniels • Slicing Celery 15Kenny Williams • Not on the Lips 23Ronald Moran • The Copperhead and My Mother, New Britain, 1948 * February 24Marsha Truman Cooper • Checking Mother In 26Margaret Mackinnon • Drift 26Oliver Rice • On the Function of Art 28T, J. Sandella • After Driving behind a Truck with a "Redneck Romeo" Bumper Sticker

• Nocturne Interrupted 28Doug Ramspeck • Posthumous Landscape 30Margaret DelGuercio • Georgia Acres 40James Valvis • My First Day in Hell 51G. C. Waldrep • Never Ask about Angels • Preside Country • (Los Almos)

•Terminator Curve 52Ann Herlong-Bodman • Instruction for the Tourist • Returning to the West 56Steven Winn • I Float 57Guy R. Beining • Felt Tongue 352. • Felt Tongue 357. ' Felt Tongue 358 59Larsen Bowker • Wolf Moon in Autumn 61Wendy Barker • The Surface 68Lyn Lifshin • Women in Plymouth 82Robert Parham* The North Floats Above Us • The Arrival 110

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Jim Richards • TheVoice of"Wild Gratitude ' One Loss * Delay I l lTori Reynolds • The Hudson School • That Sweater 113Joy Moore • In My Uncle's House, Earthquakes * Mother Daughter Dancer 114Philip C. Kolin • White Antelopes for Holly Stevens 116Marilyn E. Johnston • Living, Rising before Breakfast 122Mike Pulley • Reading John Ashbery in a Museum Lavatory 146Greg Girvan • Paramedic 167Ruth Holzer • Solstice 180Thomas Patterson • The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, Kiev, 1941 181Ashley Mace Havird • Fixing Junior 182Fred Yannantuno • La-La Land 183James B. Nicola • Rome * Common 184Ron MacFarland • Florida's Part in the Civil War. 185Marita Garin • Last Chance Bar 186Peter Nathaniel Malae • Macabre 187E. M. Schorb • The Rubber Church 188James McKee • The Exes 188Nausheen Eusuf • "Contractility is a virtue". 190Ricks Carson • The Coach • Barber Shop • Parents 191Robert Lee Kendrick • Water Moccasin • Halfway across Georgia, I Stop at the

Remains of a Topless Diner 193Matthew Brennan • Views from Union Hospital, New Years • Vanity of Wishes

• Wheel of Fortune 203Skip Eisiminger • Light 204Dede Wilson • The Power Company 212

REPUBLIC OF LETTERSSkip Eisiminger • Penguins Huddled against the Cold: Democracy 206Joe Scotchie • What it Takes: The Larry Brown Story 208

REVIEWSSusan Farrell • Conversations with Tim O'Brien 213DufFBrenna • The Art of the "Flash" Essay 215Elizabeth Stansell • Debut Novel 219John Perryman • Decline of the Epic 219Joe Scotchie • Where Everything Is Real 224Kathyrn Kirkpatrick • Poems of the Long Walk 226John Perryman • A Pleasant Surprise 229Kristin Treen • Women and the Civil War 231Chantelle L. MacPhee • Refashioning Shakespeare 233Christina Cook • Mutation and Transfiguration 234Wayne K. Chapman • Writing/Rewriting Yeats's A Vision 235

CONTRIBUTORS 236

EDITOR'S NOTE: Anticipating my retirement in 2016, after 20 years as Editor of SCR, Volume 48,fall and spring issues will mark the end of my stewardship of this journal. It will return to aneditorial structure practiced in the past, with three co-editors: Cameron Bushnell (Criticism),Keith Morris (Fiction), and Jillian Weise (Poetry). As we consider material for Volume 49 andwork on our 50th-anniversary theme, the change in leadership will be in effect. —WKC