Volume 41, Number 1 Fall 2008

The South Carolina Review, Volume 41, No. 1, Fall 2008is published by Clemson University.

@2008 Clemson University. ISSN: 0038-3163

EDITOR: Wayne Chapman.

FICTION EDITOR: Keith Morris.

CLEMSON UNIVERSITYBOOK REVIEW EDITOR: Martin Jacobi. DIGITAL PRESS

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS:Alma Bennett, Sterling Eisiminger, G. William Koon, Kimberly Manganelli, and DonnaWinchell.

ADVISORY BOARD:Susanna Ashton, Ray Barfield, Cameron Bushnell, Neil Conway, Jonathan Field, Michael LeMahieu,Dominic Mastroianni, Brian McGrath, Angela Naimou, Catherine Paul, John Smith, Aga Skrodzka-Bates, Danielle Sellers, Elisa Sparks, Rhondda Thomas, John Warner, Jillian Weise.

BUSINESS MANAGER: Grace Ammons.ACCOUNTING FISCAL ANALYST: Pearl Parker

EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS:Charis Chapman, Emily Seism, Candace Wiley, Bridget Jeffs, and Jillian Lang.

COVER:Photograph of Vivian Shipley by Wayne Chapman, Morgan Point, Connecticut.

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C O N T E N T S

EDITOR'S FORUMBill Koon • Parallel Lives 3Wayne K. Chapman • Our Once and Future Aspirations: The South Carolina Review

Since the 1990s 5

ESSAYS

Kenneth Payne* Hal Darling, "Half-Pint Atlas" Ed Lacy Revisionary Private Eye in Strip

for Violence (1953) 44James Reitter • The Legacy of Three Southern Civil War Poets: Henry Timrod, Paul

Hamilton Hayne, and Sidney Lanier 69Catharine Savage Brosman • Constance Fenimore Woolson and the South 80Jeanette Roberts Shumaker • Degenerationism and Mesmerism in Wilkie Collinss Heart and

Science 102Terry W. Thompson • "He Sprang to the Machine": "The Secret [Technological] Life of

Walter Mitty" 110Mark Spencer • The Dark Side of the Renaissance: Par Lagerkvist's The Dwarf. 134

FICTIONRonald Frame • The Americanization ofWeaverie Wabster 36Laura Hogan • Variations on a Theme 57Gary Fincke • Black Smoke, White Smoke 90Elaine Foster Palencia • The Princess Del Sarto 125Adam Peterson • The Mortar of Fourths 168Kim Chinquee • Olives and Fruit. 180

IN MEMORIAMJoe S cotchie • Mark Roy den Winch ell: Last of the Vanderbilt Greats 10

INTERVIEWJoey Schumacher • On Considering Perspectives: A Discussion with Vivian Shipley 18Claudia Labin • An Interview with Will Allison on His Debut Novel What You Have Left 53

PERSONAL ESSAYVince Clemente •Notes from an Archivist 142

POETRYJoe Allegretti • Lot's Wife 24Vivian Shipley • Nature, Red in Tooth and Claw 25Rebecca J. Foust • Lost Fathers • Lucky • Like Dostoyevskys 26Michele Santamaria • Consecrate • Lorca in New York 'Postcards From Places I Have

Never Been 29Randy Blythe • The Fruit Thereof. 31Ken Autrey • Baggage 32Lyn Lifshin • On the Day of the Longest Light 32Rita Signorelli-Pappas • Epilogue for Baucis and Philemon 33Devin Brown • Metaphor: Seeing One Things as Another 34Jessica Harmon* Moving Countries, Schizophrenic 34Bonnie Standard* Shades of Gospel 56Ronald Moran • July 4, 2007* Reading the Mail • The Foo-Foo Girl 59Maureen McHugh • After Edward Munch's Madonna 62Hannah Craig • Letter to Myself After a Fender-Bender 63

THE SOUTH CAROLINA REVIEW

Terry Ann Thaxton • Haircut 64Karen Hildebrand • 1968 65Gary Every • Bald* Flying Squirrels 66Kristin Berkey-Abbott • Lying in State 68A. Mary Murphy • Irish Arithmetic 89Roger Desy • After a Famine 115Larson Bowker • Marco Polo, Stella and Bengal Lights 116Gary Leising • Killer Whale Swallows Marine Park Tourist • Open Accounts 117Charlotte Pence • Gardeningon Sunday 118Adam Vines • Almost Clean 119Chris Bullard • Pines 120James Doyle • Charleston Railroad Depot, 1866 121William L. Ramsey • A Note on Surplus Value 121Jan Hansen • Ode to a Reptile 122James A. Baker • What I Would Tell You 123John Grey • Marthas Wash Day 124David Lawrence • Travelogue 133C. P. Mangel • Redemption 141Harry de la Houssaye • Cavajy 151Miranda Merklein • Plymouth Circle 179Kelly Terwilliger • Horse 183

POETRY PRIZE WINNERS

Wayne K. Chapman • The South Carolina Review Poetry Contest 2007/2008 12George Drew • Blessed 13David Hopes • In a Summer of Almost Too Much Light 14Hastings Hansel *Duck Blind 15Thomas Cofield • Igneous Carolina: A Day in Five Perspectives 16

THE REPUBLIC OF LETTERSSkip Eisiminger • Black Friday: A Love Story 152Lokke Heiss •Frankenstein and the Matryoshka Chain 156John Lane • The Girl in the River: the Wild and Scenic Chattooga, Ron Rash's

Saints at the River, and the Drowning of Rachel Trois 156

REVIEWSJim Megginson • Alma Mater She Shall Flourish 184Joe Scotchie • The Peoples Historian 186Robert C. Cheeks' The Resistance 189Nichele F. Cooper and Lee Glantz • Softening the Blows 196Art Young • Working Through Pain 199Kara McManus • A Contemporary Lesson in Early-Medieval Literature 202Anis Shivani *A Consummation 203Susan Tekulve • The Other Side of Chekhov 208Phebe Davidson • Worth Every Minute 209

CONTRIBUTORS 214