/IQWA JOURNAL OF LITERARY STUDIES VOLUME NINE
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The University of Iowa LIBRARIES IS!inn 3 1 3 OCi0 926 422 I MAR 0 9 1990 R A RIES^ IOWA JOURNAL OF LITERARY STUDIES Volume Nine Editor: Susan Berger Business Manager: Clair James Advisory Editors: Steve Price Vincent Casaregola Jay Berry Interview Editor: Jo Ann Futrell Poetry Editor: Gregory Galloway Fiction Editor: Richard Hill Essay Editor: Victoria Carlson Criticism Editor: Tamara Shawver Book Review Editor: Diane Horton Art Editor: Jo Ann Teter Editorial Assistants: Thomas E. Quillin Elyce Rae Helford Departm ent o f English The University of Iowa
Cover illustration: Vincent Casaregola, Untitled, black & white photograph The Iowa Journal of Literary Studies is a journal of artistic, critical, and scholarly endeavor managed and edited by graduate students at The University of Iowa. We publish the work of those currently enrolled or recently enrolled in graduate programs here. We publish one issue annually and accept submissions from July through January of each year. The cost is $4.00 per copy (plus $.50 for postage). Some back issues are available at discount prices. To submit work, please send two clean copies of your typed manuscript. Do not include your name anywhere on the manuscript all submissions are reviewed anonymously. Include a cover letter indicating your name, address, title(s) of your work(s), and the category to which you are submitting your work (e.g., fiction, essay, criticism). Prose manuscripts should not far exceed twenty pages. Please submit no more than eight poems. We follow The Chicago Manual of Style in matters of form and documentation of references. Requirements for artwork vary please consult the editors prior to submission. The editors cannot be responsible for copies of work submitted, but it does help if you include a self-addressed envelope with enough postage to return your work. If you have a campus address, postage is unnecessary. Arrangements can be made to return copyrights to the authors, a small charge. Submissions, orders, and inquiries can be directed to The Editor, Iowa Journal of Literary Studies, 308 English-Philosophy Building, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242. Phone (319) 335-0592. ^Copyright 1988 by The University of Iowa All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America
f. Ibis'? v. M \ Acknowledgments: Mary Hussman, Felicia Lavallee, Maureen Taylor, Fil Winegardner, and Vicky Dingman helped the staff by providing information, assistance, and support throughout the year. We would like to thank the judges who selected this year s prize winners: Andrew Shifflett (criticism), Laura Mullen (poetry), and Kirby Wilkins (fiction). Judith A. Sealey at Weeg Computing Center deserves thanks for her help in transferring computer files. Our proofreaders worked hard to ensure high quality and deserve special mention: Jamison Blum, Valerie Howard, Coleen Maddy, Chrys Mitchell, and Greg Eiselein. Several staff members chipped in to proofread and check galleys, so a special thanks goes out to Vicky Carlson, Jo Futrell, Clair James, Diane Horton, Tammy Shawver, and Elyce Helford. The Collegiate Associations Council provides most of our funding. A sincere thanks goes to the English Department for office space and their continued support. iii
CONTENTS Foreword vii Interviews Victoria Carlson Sheila McIntosh Poetry David Essex Stan Tag Karen Subach Jessie C. Grearson Nicholas Mason-Browne Rosemary Bensko, award winner Jessie C. Grearson 1 63 33 45 72 75 81 102 123 Interview with Ellen Goodman Interview with Members of the International Writing Program Visitation at Kill Devil Hills Sister The Kyria s Tuesday Vigil Who to be Pretty For The Flume The Bird Aquarium Women in Candle Flame Fiction Jamison Blum, award winner Ingrid Smith Susan Huckle 22 47 105 Collison Whistling after Laval A Bilateral View Essay Michael Newton, award winner 35 Grandfather Criticism Elyce Rae Helford Greg Phelps Bruce Krajewski, award winner Lera Baker Smith 15 76 83 112 Language and Memory in Borges Funes, the Memorious Fiction and Politics: The Progressive Impulse in Stephen Crane s Maggie, A Girl of the Streets Post-Modernism, Allegory, and Hermeneutics in Brazil The Knight of the Burning Pestle and Cultural Anamorphosis V
B o o k r e v ie w Melissa Bruce 125 Georgia O'Keeffe: Art and Letters by Jack Cowart and Juan Hamilton Melissa Brown 129 In Favor of Lightening by Barbara Molloy-Olund A r t Vincent Casaregola 14 Untitled Patrick Ellis 32 Self Portrait Michael Grant 34 Untitled Nanci Erskine 46 Baby Presence Jeung Hee Lee 73 Woman in Studio Jo Ann Teter 80 Untitled Tami Kurahara 82 Seed Michael Grant 104 Untitled Dana Lee Gamer 111 Untitled Jill Erickson 124 Untitled Gilaine Spoto 134 Over the Land N o t e s o n c o n t r ib u t o r s 135 vi