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THE VIRGINIA QVARTERLY VOLUME LXxX Winter ..... Spring Summer..... Autumn 1994 THE VIRGINIA QVARTERLY REVIEW VOLUME LXX ‘A Deeper Place in Themselves,’ Book Re- Around the Cragged Hill: A Personal and view by Tucker Carrington, 366 Political Philosophy, by George F. Kennan; About Time, by Mark Halliday, 456 reviewed by Kenneth W. Thompson, 168 Agoraphobia, by Natasha Saje, 673 Clock of Clay, by Robert Hazel; reviewed by All That I Love, by Greg Kuzma, 103 John Kuehl, 377 Colored People: A Memoir, by Henry Louis Another Faulkner Biography, Book Review Gates, Jr.; reviewed by Sanford Pinsker, 757 by Patrick Samway, S. J., 567 Correspondence of William James, Volume I: ARDEN, LEON. Coming of Age, 623 William and Henry (1861-1884), The, ed- Arrows Shoot Through Us, by Lynn Doyle, ited by Ignas K. Skrupskelis and Elizabeth 300 M. Berkeley; reviewed by Robert Coles, 160 At Scott’s Bluff, Nebraska, by Elizabeth Elizabeth Bishop: Life and the Memory of It, Dodd, 449 by Brett C. Millier; reviewed by Kathy S. Coen, 382 Elizabeth Bishop: The Biography of a Poetry, Balance, by Carol Frost, 99 by Lorrie Goldensohn; reviewed by Kathy Banyans, by Laura Mullen, 309 S. Coen, 382 Barnum’s Animal Crackers, by Michael Great Melody: A Thematic Biography of Ed- McFee, 452 mund Burke, The, by Conor Cruise BAROLINI, HELEN. The Italian Side of O’Brien; reviewed by Paul Roazen, 198 Emily Dickinson, 461 Hodding Carter: The Reconstruction ofa Rac- BAROLSKY, PAUL. The Painter Who Almost ist, by Ann Waldron; reviewed by Martin Became a Cheese, 110; Book Review: Ochs, 573 Lord Byron’s Persona, 373 Jeffersonian Legacies, edited by Peter S. Beaches in Winter, by Leonard Kriegel, Onuf; reviewed by AlfJ . Mapp, Jr., 182 130 John Tyler Morgan and the Search for South- ern Autonomy, by Joseph A. Fry; reviewed BEATTIE, ANN. Fireback, 421 by Tennant S. McWilliams, 580 Birthplace, by Michael Mott, 448 Justice Oliver Wendel! Holmes: Law and the Black Intellectuals’ Common Fate and Un- Inner Self, by G. Edward White; reviewed common Problems, The, by Sanford by Daniel R. Ernst, 740 Pinsker, 220 King of Inventors: A Life of Wilkie Collins, Black Velvet, by John James Whalen, 455 The, by Catherine Peters; reviewed by Blind Love, by Delsa Winer, 556 Chris Cleary, 751 Boathouse, by Reed Whittemore, 458 Letters of William Cullen Bryant, Volumes Book of Denial, The, by Adéle Slaughter, 1-6, The, edited by William Cullen Bryant, 666 II and Thomas G. Voss; reviewed by Alex- ander Burnham, 191 Lord Byron’s Strength: Romantic Writing and BOOKS REVIEWED: Commercial Society, by Jerome Chris- Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the tensen; reviewed by Paul Barolsky, 373 Undoing of Character, by Jonathan Shay, Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Black Man in M.D., Ph.D.; reviewed by W. D. Ehrhart, America, by Nathan McCall; reviewed by 773 Sanford Pinsker, 757 Ornament, Fantasy, and Desire in Nine- Time’? Thoughts on the New British teenth-Century French Literature, by Rae Revisionism, by Louis D. Rubin, Jr., Beth Gordon; reviewed by Allan H. Pasco, 59 387 DODD, ELIZABETH. At Scott’s Bluff, Ne- Parallel Time: Growing Up in Black and braska, 449; Reading American, 448 White, by Brent Staples; reviewed by San- DOYLE, LYNN. Arrows Shoot Through Us, ford Pinsker, 757 Preparing for the Twenty-First Century, by 300 Paul Kennedy; reviewed by Kenneth W. DUKE, PAUi. The Wayward Media, 393 Thompson, 168 DUNBAR, LESLIE W. Not By Law Alone: Race Matters, by Cornel West; reviewed by Brown in Retrospect, 205 Sanford Pinsker, 174 Taste of Power: A Black Woman’s Story, A, by Early Spring, by Samuel F. Pickering, Jr., Elaine Brown; reviewed by Tucker Car- 326 rington, 366 EGERTON, JOHN. The Pre-Brown South, This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie 603 Lou Hamer, by Kay Mills; reviewed by EHRHART, W. D. Book Reviews: “I Could Tucker Carrington, 366 Us, by Wayne Karlin; reviewed by W. D. Not Help My Friend,’ 773; No Facts, Ehrhart, 576 Only Perceptions, 576 William Faulkner and Southern History, by ERNST, DANIEL R. Book Review: Half Life, Joel Williamson; reviewed by Patrick Sam- 740 way, S. J., 567 Fate, by Carol Frost, 98 BOYLE, KEVIN. Town and Through It, 304 February 29, 1992, by Lisa Russ-Spaar, 106 Break, by Michael Jay McClure, 672 Fireback, by Ann Beattie, 421 BROUGHTON, T. ALAN. A Tour of the Is- First Time, The, by Mary Hower, 302 lands, 480; Praise for the Core and Floyd’s Girl, by Tim Gautreaux, 239 Crust of Earth, 100 FRASER, RUSSELL. Proserpine’s Island, 583 BURNHAM, ALEXANDER. Book Review: Free Coffee, by Jane Hilberry, 677 Prominent Poet, Eminent Editor, 191 FREEDMAN, MORRIS. The Persistence of BURSTEIN, ANDREW. The Problem of Jef- Plagiarism, The Riddle of Originality, ferson Biography, 403 504 BUTLER, ROBERT OLEN. The Handwriting FROST, CAROL. Balance, 99; Fate, 98; Sex- on the Wall, 51 ual Jealousy, 99 GAUTREAUX, TIM. Floyd’s Girl, 239 CARRINGTON, TUCKER. Book Review: ‘A GILBERT, JACK. Michiko Dead, 300; Music Deeper Place in Themselves,’ 366 Is the Memory of What Never Hap- Change and Continuity, Book Review by pened, 298; Older Women, 299; The Kenneth W. Thompson, 168 History of Men, 299 Chlorophyll Angels, by John James Gold Bugs, by Roussie Woodruff, 273 Whalen, 454 CLEARY, CHRIS. Book Review: Reinventing Half Life, Book Review by Daniel R. Ernst, the Inventor, 751 740 COEN, KATHY S. Book Review: The Map of HALLIDAY, MARK. About Time, 456; a Poet’s Life, 382 Threads, 457 Colander, by Michael McFee, 453 Handwriting on the Wall, The, by Robert COLES, ROBERT. Book Review: A “Tol- Olen Butler, 51 stoyan’ Correspondence, 160 HARRIS, PETER. Poetry Chronicle, 679 Coming of Age, by Leon Arden, 623 Haunted, by Michael Jay McClure, 670 COONEY, ELLEN. How We Are, 518 Hearing, The, by Mark Ledbetter, 654 Courage in the South, Book Review by HERNDON, BOOTON. Paris Was Yesterday, Martin Ochs, 573 710 Craft, by Jane Hilberry, 675 HILBERRY, CONRAD. Omens, 301 HILBERRY, JANE. Craft, 675; Free Coffee, Daily Life, by Lawrence Raab, 95 677; Train, 674 DENNIS, CARL. Starry Night, 305; Your City, His Name Was Lennie, by Greg Johnson, 306 341 Did Churchill Ruin “The Great Work of History of Men, The, by Jack Gilbert, 299 Home Boys Between Hard Covers, Book Michiko Dead, by Jack Gilbert, 300 Review by Sanford Pinsker, 757 MINER, VALERIE. On Earth, 315 House, by Laura Mullen, 309 More, Not Less, History!, by Hans A. How We Are, by Ellen Cooney, 518 Schmitt, 283 HOWER, MARY. Mother’s Jackal, 303; The MORGAN, ROBERT.. Mountain Sickness, First Time, 302 451; Sanghoe, 451; Thaw Fires, 450 Mother’s Jackal, by Mary Hower, 303 ‘I Could Not Help My Friend,’ Book Re- MOTT, MICHAEL. Birthplace, 448; Tree view by W. D. Ehrhart, 773 Struck by Lightning, 447 In the Hangar of Brisbee, Oklahoma, 1933, Mountain Sickness, by Robert Morgan, 451 by Steve Kronen, 453 MULLEN, LAURA. Banyans, 309; House, In the Library, by Dave Smith, 444 309; Traffic Jam, 308 Italian Side of Emily Dickinson, The, by Music Is the Memory of What Never Hap- Helen Barolini, 461 pened, by Jack Gilbert, 298 JANIN, HUNT. The Post-Information Soci- NELSON, KENT. Northern Lights, 119 ety, 38 NELSON, MICHAEL. Why Americans Hate John F. Kennedy and Revisionism, by Ken- Politics and Politicians, 636 neth W. Thompson, 430 New Burke, A, Book Review by Paul JOHNSON, GREG. His Name Was Lennie, Roazen, 198 341 No Facts, Only Perceptions, Book Review JONES, RICHARD. Sing Doo Wah Diddy by W. D. Ehrhart, 576 with Derrida, 1 Northern Lights, by Kent Nelson, 119 Just about Jefferson, Book Review by AlfJ . Not By Law Alone: Brown in Retrospect, Mapp, Jr., 182 by Leslie W. Dunbar, 205 OCHS, MARTIN. Book Review: Courage in KRIEGEL, ABE. A Prayer for My Daughter, the South, 573 256 = Older Women, by Jack Gilbert, 299 KRIEGEL, LEONARD. Beaches in Winter, Omens, by Conrad Hilberry, 301 130 On Earth, by Valerie Miner, 315 KRONEN, STEVE. In the Hangar of Brisbee, Oklahoma, 1933, 453 Painter Who Almost Became a Cheese, KUEHL, JOHN. Book Review: “Threnody Is The, by Paul Barolsky, 110 My Name,’ 377 Painters, by Tim Wooten, 727 KUZMA, GREG. All That I Love, 103 Paris Was Yesterday, by Booton Herndon, 710 LEA, SYDNEY, Mercy on Beeson’s Par- PASCO, ALLAN H. Book Review: Under- tridge, 541 cover, 387 LEDBETTER, MARK. The Hearing, 654 Persistence of Plagiarism, The Riddle of Lord Byron’s Persona, Book Review by Originality, The, by Morris Freedman, Paul Barolsky, 373 504 Piano Lesson, by Adéle Slaughter, 665 MCCLURE, MICHAEL JAY. Break, 672; PICKERING, SAMUEL F., JR. Early Spring, Haunted, 670; Song, 669; The Poem 326 Emerges, 668 PINSKER, SANFORD. The Black Intellectu- MCFEE, MICHAEL. Barnum’s Animal Crack- als’ Common Fate and Uncommon ers, 452; Colander, 453 Problems, 220; Book Reviews: Home MCWILLIAMS, TENNANT S. Book Review: A Boys Between Hard Covers, 757; Power of the South, 580 What’s Love, and Candor, Got to Do Map of a Poet’s Life, The, Book Review by with It?, 174 Kathy S. Coen, 382 Poem Emerges, The, by Michael Jay Mc- MAPP, ALF J., JR. Book Review: Just About Clure, 668 Jefferson, 182 MEE, SUSIE. Yellow Ribbons, 79 POETRY: Memory, by Sharon Pywell, 697 About Time, by Mark Halliday, 456 Mercy on Beeson’s Partridge, by Sydney Agoraphobia, by Natasha Saje, 673 Lea, 541 All That I Love, by Greg Kuzma, 103 Arrows Shoot Through Us, by Lynn Doyle, POIRIER-BURES, SIMONE. Return, 356 300 Post-Information Society, The, by Hunt At Scott’s Bluff, Nebraska, by Elizabeth Dodd, Janin, 38 449 Power of the South, A, Book Review by Balance, by Carol Frost, 99 Tennant S. McWilliams, 580 Banyans, by Laura Mullen, 309 Praise for the Core and Crust of Earth, by Barnum’s Animal Crackers, by Michael Mc- Fee, 452 T. Alan Broughton, 100 Birthplace, by Michael! Mott, 448 Prayer for My Daughter, A, by Abe Kriegel, Black Velvet, by John James Whalen, 455 256 Boathouse, by Reed Whittemore, 458 Pre-Brown South, The, by John Egerton, Book of Denial, The, by Adéle Slaughter, 666 603 Break, by Michael Jay McClure, 672 Problem of Jefferson Biography, The, by Chlorophyll Angels, by John James Whalen, Andrew Burstein, 403 454 Prominent Poet, Eminent Editor, Book Re- Colander, by Michael McFee, 453 view by Alexander Burnham, 191 Craft, by Jane Hilberry, 675 Daily Life, by Lawrence Raab, 95 Proserpine’s Island, by Russell Fraser, 583 Fate, by Carol Frost, 98 PYWELL, SHARON. Memory, 696 February 29, 1992, by Lisa Russ-Spaar, 106 First Time, The, by Mary Hower, 302 RAAB, LAWRENCE. Daily Life, 95; The Uses Free Coffee, by Jane Hilberry, 677 of Nostalgia, 96 Haunted, by Michael Jay McClure, 670 Reading American, by Elizabeth Dodd, History of Men, The, by Jack Gilbert, 299 448 House, by Laura Mullen, 309 In the Hangar of Brisbee, Oklahoma, 1933, by Reinventing the Inventor, Book Review by Steve Kronen, 453 Chris Cleary, 751 In the Library, by Dave Smith, 444 Return, by Simone Poirier-Bures, 356 Michiko Dead, by Jack Gilbert, 300 ROAZEN, PAUL. Book Review: A New Mother's Jackal, by Mary Hower, 303 Burke, 198 Mountain Sickness, by Robert Morgan, 451 RUBIN, LOUIS D., JR. Did Churchill Ruin Music Is the Memory of What Never Hap- ‘The Great Work of Time’? Thoughts pened, by Jack Gilbert, 298 on the New British Revisionism, 59 Older Women, by Jack Gilbert, 299 RUSS-SPAAR, LISA. February 29, 1992, 106; Omens, by Conrad Hilberrv, 301 Piano Lesson, by Adéle Slaughter, 565 String Quartet, 108 Poem Emerges, The, by Michae! Jay Mc- Clure, 668 SAJE, NATASHA. Agoraphobia, 673 Praise for the Core and Crust of Earth, by T. SAMWAY, PATRICK S. J. Book Review: An- Alan Broughton, 100 other Faulkner Biography, 567 Reading American, by Elizabeth Dodd, 448 Sanghoe, by Robert Morgan, 451 Sanghoe, by Robert Morgan, 451 SCHMITT, HANS A. More, Not Less, His- Sexual Jealousy, by Carol Frost, 99 Sleeping With My Sisters, by Adéle Slaughter, tory!, 283 663 Sexual Jealousy, by Carol Frost, 99 Song, by Michael Jay McClure, 669 Sing Doo Wah Diddy with Derrida, by Starry Night, by Carl Dennis, 305 Richard Jones, | Stories, The, by Reed Whittemore, 459 SLAUGHTER, ADELE. Piano Lesson, 665; String Quartet, by Lisa Russ-Spaar, 108 Sleeping With My Sisters, 663; The Thaw Fires, by Robert Morgan, 450 Book of Denial, 666; Wrestling With Threads, by Mark Halliday, 457 My Brother, 667 Tree Struck by Lightning, by Michael Mott, Sleeping With My Sisters, by Adéle 447 Town and Through It, by Kevin Boyle, 304 Slaughter, 663 Traffic Jam, by Laura Mullen, 308 SMITH, DAVE. In the Library, 444; Un- Train, by Jane Hilberry, 674 known Daughter, 446 Unknown Daughter, by Dave Smith, 446 Song, by Michael Jay McClure, 669 Uses of Nostalgia, The, by Lawrence Raab, 96 Starry Night, by Carl Dennis, 305 Wrestling With My Brother, by Adéle Slaugh- Steam, by Susan Volchok, 141 ter, 667 Stories, The, by Reed Whittemore, 459 Your City, by Carl Dennis, 306 String Quartet, by Lisa Russ-Spaar, 108 Poetry Chronicle, by Peter Harris, 679 Thaw Fires, by Robert Morgan, 450 THOMPSON, KENNETH W. John F. Kennedy VOLCHOK, SUSAN. Steam, 141 and Revisionism, 430; Book Review: Change and Continuity, 168 Wayward Media, The, by Paul Duke, 393 Threads, by Mark Halliday, 457 WHALEN, JOHN JAMES. Black Velvet, 455; Tree Struck by Lightning, by Michael Chlorophyll Angels, 454 Mott, 447 What’s Love, and Candor, Got to Do with ‘Threnody Is My Name,’ Book Review by It?, Book Review by Sanford Pinsker, John Kuehl, 377 174 ‘Tolstoyan’ Correspondence, A, Book Re- WHITTEMORE, REED. Boathouse, 458; The view by Robert Coles, 160 Stories, 459 Tour of the Islands, A, by T. Alan Brough- Why Americans Hate Politics and Politi- ton, 480 cians, by Michael Nelson, 636 Town and Through It, by Kevin Boyle, 304 WINER, DELSA. Blind Love, 556 Traffic Jam, by Laura Mullen, 308 WOODRUFF, ROUSSIE. Gold Bugs, 273 Train, by Jane Hilberry, 674 WOOTEN, TIM. Painters, 727 Wrestling with My Brother, by Adéle Undercover, Book Review by Alan H. Slaughter, 667 Pasco, 387 Unknown Daughter, by Dave Smith, 446 Uses of Nostalgia, The, by Lawrence Raab, Yellow Ribbons, by Susie Mee, 79 96 Your City, by Carl Dennis, 306