Journal Archives 1990-1994 - Texas Review

Fiction
Victoria Lancelotta – Quiet
Sabina Murray – The Way Back
Charles Wyatt – Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat

Essays
Alfred Cismaru – The Other Flaubert: That of the Correspondance
Paula Marantz – Remembering the Idea of a SelfL Rereading Trilling
Andrea Gurwitt – Eyeing the Door—Or My Hesitant Encounter with the Other Side
Laurence Lieberman – The Long Cry: James Dickery's Mercy

Poetry
Stephen C. Behrendt – Broken Wheel
Stephen C. Behrendt – For the Owl
Stephen C. Behrendt – Jaffrey Center Cemetery
Stephen C. Behrendt – Wreckage
Ruth Berman – Queen Colors
Ruth Berman – Queen Dance
John Docherty – Deconstructing Pregnancy
Gary Edmondson – Missionary
Bob Fink – Crossing the Brazos
Bob Fink – Mary and John Clack Reach the Taylor Community Plateau
Gretchen Hock – The Women on the Porch
Joanne Lowery – Mary Maitland Sums It Up
Joel B. Peckham – Painting the Garden
Susan Atefat Peckhman – Stoning Soraya
Ron Rash – At an Abandoned Homestead in Watauga County
Ron Rash – Cabbage
Ron Rash – On Broad River Bridge
Ron Rash – Tobacco Barn
Vivian Shipley – How Sweet the Sound

Reviews
John Docherty – Hell (Dante Alighieri, Trans. Steve Ellis)
Betty Dunlap – Horton Foote's Three Trips to Bountiful: Teleplay, Stageplay, Screenplay (Ed. Barbara Moore and David G. Yellin)
Laura Kasischke – The American Poet at the Movies (Laurence Goldstein)
Irving Malin – Literary Symbiosis: The Reconfigured Text in Twentieth-Century Writing (David Cowart)
Phillip Parotti – The Desert Is My Mother (Pat Mora), The Other Words: Literature by Latinos of the United States (Ed. Roberta Fernández), The Rebel (Ed. Clara Lomas)
Phillip Parotti – Gaspar! A Spanish Poet/Priestess in the Nicaraguan Revolution (David Gullette)
Clay Reynolds – Something Old, Something New: Five New Titles from SMU

Fiction
Starling Lawrence – The Gift
Lauren MacIntyre – Hungwitchin' (TR Discovery Story)
Don Meredith – The Closer

Essays
Vicki Graham – Reconstructed Vase: Sylvia Plath and New Critical Aesthetics
Michael Johnson – Horses
Stephen C. Porter – Bois D'Arcs

Poetry
Elaine Emmett – Arcadia
Elaine Emmett – The Old Sanatarium
David Fedo – Echolalia
Brooke Horvath – Children in the Bedroom
Brooke Horvath – Evangelist with Child
Jonathan Kaplan – Halcyon Days (New Jersey)
Walter McDonald – Graves of Unknown Soldiers

Reviews
Gorman Beauchamp – John Carey's The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligensia, 1880-1939
Robert Donahoo – Jon Lance Bacon's Flannery O'Connor and Cold War Culture
Mary Gutermuth – Norman Shapiro's The Fabulists French Verse Fables of Nine Centuries and La Fontaine's Bawdy of Libertines, Louts, and Lechers
Irving Malin – J.B. Breslin's Mark Rothko: A Biography
Irving Malin – W.D. Snodgrass's Each in His Season and Stephen Haven's The Poetry of W.D. Snodgrass
Irving Malin – Louis Phillip's Games of the Blind
Phillip Parotti – Lionel G. Garcia's To a Widow with Children
Phillip Parotti – Victor Rodriguez's Eldorado in East Harlem

Fiction
John Isaacs – Dance of the Widows
W.P. Osborn – The Golden Gate
Dayton Phillips – dreamstalker (TR Discovery Story)
John Volkmer – Brave in Season

Essays
Robert Erwin – Why I Didn't Shoot the Last Gorilla
Gu Zifeng – Born in the Wrong Age

Poetry
Jim Barnes – Interlude
Taylor Graham – Building a Fire in June
Sumi Hahn – This October Light
Glenda Lindsey-Hicks – Sun
Allen Hoey – February
Al Maginnes – How We Listen
Patricia Randall Peek – Down To Sleep
Jim Peterson – King, Jack, Queen
E.M. Schorb – Art
Larry D. Thomas – Red Raging Waters
Steve Yates – From His Porch in Galloway

Reviews
Robert Donahoo – Flannery O'Connor: The Growing Craft (Compiled by Karl-Heinz Westarp)
Irving Malin – Angels and Insects (A.S. Byatt)
Irving Malin – The Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story (John Irwin)
Irving Malin – A Table of Green Fields (Guy Davenport)
Phillip Parotti – Crucible of Empire: The Spanish-American War & Its Aftermath (Ed. James C. Bradford)
Phillip Parotti – Hunting Lieutenant Chadbourne (Jim W. Corder)
Larry D. Thomas – The Man Who Would Be God (Paul Ruffin)

Staff Reviews and Comments
Paul Ruffin – All These Lands You Call One Country (Stephen Corey)
Paul Ruffin – Alligator Dance (Janet Peery)
Paul Ruffin – Where Skies Are Not Cloudy (Walt McDonald)

Fiction
Andrew King – Paying Respects
Tim Parrish – The Smell of a Car
Chuck Plunkett – An Ill-Considered Bet
Deborah Hilary Sussman – Out, Down, Nothing (TR Discovery Story)

Essays
Daniel Ort – My Mother Always Called Me by My Brother's Name
Paul Trout – Criticism and Self-Esteem: The Therapeutic Uses of Literary Theory

Poetry
Philip Dacey – Walt Whitman's "Sunday with the Insane"
Matthew Furbush – Portrait from the Age of Henry the Eighth
Stephen Gardner – Guests
Peter Grivich – Elementary Algebra
Ernest Kroll – Edges
Judith Neeld – From the Artist, Letter to Arthur Stiegliz
Louis Phillips – Words over the Entranceway to Hell
Kevin Prufer – The Lukens Cache, Excavated 1981-1988
Constance Pultz – Forgotten Frontier
David Rigsbee – The White Rainbow
David R. Slavitt – From The Metamorphoses of Ovid

Reviews
Gorman Beauchamp – The Orwell Conundrum (Erika Gottlieb), The Revisited Orwell (Ed. Johnathan Rose)
Donald Coers – From Slave to Statesman: The Legacy of Joshua Houston (Patricia Smith Prather and Jane Clements Monday)
Irving Malin – The Oracles of Stoneleigh Court (Peter Taylor)
Irving Malin – Turkish Delights (David Slavitt)
Phillip Parotti – Leonor Park (Nash Candelaria)
Phillip Parotti – Short Fiction by Hispanic Writers of the United States (Ed. Nicolás Kanellos)
Phillip Parotti – The Useless Servants (Rolando Hinojosa)
Robert Zaller – Earth Light (Peter Dale)

Fiction
Andrea Beauchamp – At the Custer Museum
Nels Hanson – Perpetual Motion
Reina McKeithen – The Boy from Princeton
Alex Morris – The Best Job in the World (TR Discovery Story)
Steve Yates – The Burial

Essays
Robert E. Morsberger – Moscow Journal: The Soviet Steinbeck Festival of 1989

Poetry
Eugenio de Andrade – Arima
Eugenio de Andrade – Song Written in the Sands of Laga
Ken Autry – Dry Seasons in Ghana
Ken Autry – National Geographic
Imogene Bolls – Osteology
John Davis – Local Color: The Local Yard Dog Takes a Break
William Virgil Davis – Night in Venice
Robert DeMott – Easter Diary: Hospital Visit
Robert DeMott – Heart of Georgia
Michael Evans – Capital Reef, Utah
Michael Evans – The Miner Outside His Tent
Jim Ewing – Glasgow Train
Gyula Illyés – In a Blacksmith's House of the Puszta
Gyula Illyés – Phoenix
Candace Ord Manroe – Sensory Deprivation
Daniel Ort – Widow Cory
Kevin Sample – The Lesson

Reviews
Tom Fensch – John Steinbeck: Asian Perspectives (Ed. Kiyoshi Nakayuma, et al), Uncollected Stories of John Steinbeck (Ed. Kiyoshi Nakayama), Selected Essays of John Steinbeck (Ed. Kiyoshi Nakayama)
Mimi R. Gladstein – Hemingway: The American Homecoming (Michael Reynolds)
Ejner J. Jensen – The Homecoming Theme in Modern Drama (Leah Hadomi)
Bradley G. Siebert – In the Countryside (Kang Xue Pei)

Staff Reviews and Comments
Paul Ruffin – Dark Horses (X.J. Kennedy)
Paul Ruffin – Hardcastle (John Yount)
Paul Ruffin – Oh, What an Awful Thing To Say (William Cole and Louis Phillips)
Paul Ruffin – A Weekend in September (John Edward Weems)

Fiction
Katherine Gelfman – The Gun Club (TR Discovery Story)
Andrea Gollin – Kick Ball (TR Discovery Story)
Alyce Miller – Sacrifices
Theron Montgomery – Emma Saw

Essays
Robert Lanza – Adrift on Walden Pond: Five Seconds on a Winter's Morning
Sam Pickering – Outrageous
Mally Abel Travis – Speaking from the Silence of the Slave Narrative: Beloved and African-American Women's History

Poetry
Bert Almon – Blockbuster
Imogene Bolls – Reading the Bones
Beverly Corben – Lines for J. Alfred from the Bayou
George Drew – Leaving Little Newell Out
Mark Hammer – Working for Yourself
Roger Jones – Original Sin
Lawrence Goldstein – Cold Reading

Reviews
Kang Xue Pei – Journey to Beijing (J.R. LeMaster)
George Looney – Storm Pattern (Greg Pape)
Eleanor Mitchell – The Brushlanders (Robert Winship)
Paul Trout – Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America (James Davidson Hunter)
Robert Winship – Whistling in the Dark (George Garrett)

Fiction
Amelia Fortenberry – Age of Miracles (TR Discovery Story)
John McNally – Claims
Jeff Posey – An Invisible Man
David R. Slavitt – Fight Night in Albuquerque
Robert Winship – Easter Fires

Essays
Catherine A. Civello – "The White Man's Jewel": Writing the Body in Conrad's Lord Jim
Sarah Hardison O'Connor – Light a Candle: A Memoir of O.B. Hardison

Poetry
Laura Albrecht – Quarter After Midnight
Annette Bostrum – Muhammad Ali
Scott Cairns – In the General Area of North Texas
William E. Cooper – How It Will End
David Fedo – Leaving Block Island
Robert A. Fink – Idalou Spencer, My Eighth-Grade Teacher, Is Found Dead in the Middle of Summer
Brenda Finnegan – In Talia's Eyes
Matthew Furbush – Freight Cars, Gloucester
Walter Griffin – The Bones of Montgomery Clift
Lynne Knight – Bright Combs
Paul Lake – Epitaph for a Draft Dodger
Sarah Lindsay – Moving Targets
Jim Linebarger – At Last, a True Fable
Ardath Mayhar – East Texas June, 1939
Del Marie Rogers – Crystal Ball
Del Marie Rogers – Easter, San Augustine
Mark Sanders – Digging for Fossils
R.T. Smith – By the Book
R.T. Smith – Like Lucifer
Daniel James Sundahl – Envoi to the Journal of John Woolman
Daniel James Sundahl – Winter, You, Transmutation
Larry D. Thomas – For Purity
Larry D. Thomas – Fresh Fat
Larry D. Thomas – Monhegan Island, Maine
Robert Tremmel – The Pro
Eric Trethewey – Homesteading
Ken Victor – The Kingdom

Reviews
Donald Coers – Edward Burleson: Texas Frontier Leader (John H. Jenkins and Kenneth Kesselus)
Tom Hansen – Old and New Poems (Donald Hall)
Robert S. Hughes, Jr. – And the View from the Shore: Literary Traditions of Hawai'i (Stephen H. Sumida)
Phillip Parotti – Pepe Rios (Daniel Cano)

Fiction
Hilary Masters – Dad Is Here
Don Meredith – Ferry from Kabatas
Clay Reynolds – Honkytonk
Leigh Ann Ackrider – The Secret of the Kirov (TR Discovery Story)
John Timmerman – Walking the Elephant

Non-Fiction
Gorman Beauchamp – Modernism and Its Aftermath
Robert A. Fink – "Have a Coke and a Smile"
Carter Martin – Horton Foote's Southern Family in Roots in a Parched Ground
B.A. St. Andrews – Music: The Mystic Healer

Poetry
Michael Cleary – Aunt Sara and the 4-Letter Word
Michael Cleary – Aunt Sara and the Tattoo
Caroline Collins – The Atlantic Pilot's Bride
Jim Elledge – Firenze: Il Rinascimento
Jim Elledge – There is the Silence
Ann Fowler – Mudtime
Elisabeth Frost – Skating
Robert Funge – Sunday Evening
Matthew Furbush – A Touch of Cain
Matthew Furbush – Mobil Station
Angel Gonzalez – The Scandalous Rose
Angel Gonzalez – The So-Called Twilight
Angel Gonzalez – Twilight, Albuquerque, Summer
Blair Hobbs – O'Keeffe's Still Life
Michael Johnson – Honey
Kip Knott – Inheriting Sunday Creek
Joanne Lowery – Nachusa Grasslands Two
Robert McKelvey – Separation
Peter Makuck – Listen
Peter Makuck – Out and Back
Candace Manroe – A Corporate Fable
Daniel Ort – I Met a Fiction at Club Med
Dave Parsons – Second Marriage
Dave Parsons – Sounding
Robert Pawlowski – After Venezuela
Robert Pawlowski – Eskia Driving Through Zion
Cleatus Rattan – Looking Deep
Cleatus Rattan – Making the Grade
Sheryl St. Germain – Ode to Caffeine
James Sundahl – Old People in the Sun

Reviews
Susan Bielstein – Common Bonds: Stories By and About Texas Women (Ed. Suzanne Comer)
Robert S. Hughes, Jr. – The Dramatic Landscape of Steinbeck's Short Stories (John H. Timmerman)
Roger Jones – Texas Poets in Concert: A Quartet
Eleanor R. Mitchell – John Steinbeck as Propagandist: The Moon is Down Goes to War (Donald V. Coers)
Phillip Parotti – Distant Journeys (Rafael Castillo)
Phillip Parotti – The Rag Doll Plagues (Alejandro Morales)
Clay Reynolds – Ralph Ellison (Mark Busby)
Clay Reynolds – Ort Bran (Daniel Ort)
Clay Reynolds – Bitter Harvest: An Anthology of Contemporary Irish Verse (Ed. John Montague)

Poetry
Elaine V. Emans – Father and the Lignum Vitae
Allen Hoey – Shaping the Day
Allen Hoey – Wolves at the Burnett Park Zoo
David Berry – Fishing
David Berry – Knee Caps
David Citino – Homage to the Undertaker
Jan Schreiber – Acoustics
Bob Gaskin – From Chagall's Lovers in Venice
Joseph Harris – Edward Hopper's U.S.A.
R.S. Carlson – Shelter Cove
Paul Petrie – The Scavengers
Michael D. Riley – Anglers
George Looney – One Form Love Takes
T. Alan Broughton – Where Home Was
T. Alan Broughton – Minor Earthquake
John Ditsky – Shortages
Ann Townsend – Irish
Ron Rash – Rattlesnake
J.B. Goodenough – Cleaning Out the Fallout Shelter
Michael Larson – My Wife, Teaching Me about Birds
Lucy Shawgo – The River
Jay Treiber – Mule Thief

Fiction
David Slavitt – To My Dying Day
Kit Reid – The Prospective Pessimist
Helen Jones – The First Wife
Lyn Di Iorio – The Other Number

Non-Fiction
Donald Coers – Interview with Chinese Writer Li Rui
Clay Reynolds – Whither the Great American Short Story
Paul H. Lorenz – Epiphany among the Ruins: Etruscan Places in John Fowles's Daniel Martin
Suzanne Kimball – Why Read Literature?

Reviews
Robert S. Hughs – Jackson J. Benson's The Short Novels of John Steinbeck
Fred Chappell – Heather Ross Miller's Hard Evidence
Allen Hoey – Williams Matthews's Blues If You Want
Eleanor Mitchell – Phillip Parotti's Fires in the Sky
Phillip Parotti – Captain William French's Recollections of a Western Rancher
Phillip Parotti – Tim MacCurdy's Caesar of Santa Fe
Phillip Parotti – Ernesto Trejo's Entering a Life