Journal Archives 1995-1999 - Texas Review

Texas Review Poetry Prize Chapbook
Laurie Kuntz – Simple Gestures

Fiction
Jim Barnes – The Wild Plum
Deborah K. Blackmore – Heartbeat
Margaret Kingerly – The Physical Limits of Glass
Franklin Tate – Out of Range

Essays
Don Meredith – A Dangerous Man: T.E. Lawrence in the Middle East

Reviews
Kathleen Godfrey – New Essays on My Ántonia (Sharon O'Brien, ed.)
Mary Gutermuth – One Hundred Poems (Paul Verlaine; translated by Norman Shapiro)
Delores Ayers Keller – Toni Morrison: Critical and Theoretical Approaches (Ed. Nancy J. Peterson)
Eric Lagergren – Gates of Eden (Ethan Coen)
J.T. Longineau – Every Man Also (Robert Winship)
John Wegner – Faulkner's Literary Children: Patterns of Development (David Vanderwerken)
Robert Winship – The Junction Boys (Jim Dent)

Staff Reviews and Comments
Robert Donahoo – The Bottom Rung: African American Family Life on Southern Farms (Stewart E. Tolnay)
Barbara Miles – Nightshade: 20th Century Ghost Stories (Robert Phillips)
Barbara Miles – East Bay Grease (Eric Miles Williamson)

Fiction
Michael Narducci – A Fifteen Minute Ride Home (TR Discovery Story)
John Payne – Prairie Storm (TR Discovery Story)
Daniel Stern – Questions and Answers

Essays
Kathy Greenwood – Danke, Shane
CW2 Fred Manson, Ret. – Death of a Pilot: A True Story
James White – On William Goyen

Poetry
Kim Bridgford – After Cancer
Michael J. Bugeja – First Love Poem to My Son
James Cleghorn – Sunday Slaughter
John Ditsky – Acts of God, Coverning Up, Genesis
Max Eberts – Heavenly Bodies
Drew Ten Eyck – Men in Love, Disconnecting
Richard Foerster – Anna's House
Gregory Fraser – Down Time
Patricia Goedicke – In the Plague Years
Ashley Mace Havird – The Field
David Havird – Pegasus
Carolyn Kizer – The Red Guard
Eric Muirhead – Two poems by Friedrich Nietzche
William J. Smith – Lunch at the Cripple Crab Seafood & Steak House
Norman Shapiro – Two poems from Verlaine
Kathleen Snodgrass – Three poems by Hector Carreto
K.A. Thomas – Dahmer Suite
David Tillinghast – What We Know

Reviews
Gorman Beauchamp – Huckleberry Finn as Idol and Target: The Functions of Criticism in Our Time (Jonathan Arac)
Michelle L. Brown – Moon in a Mason Jar and What My Father Believed, Two Volumes of Poetry (Robert Wrigley)
Mike Chaser – Appalachia (Charles Wright), Except by Nature (Sandra Alcosser)
Brad Garmon – Believers (Charles Baxter)
Robert Koppelman – Sleeping with the Boss: Female Subjectivity and Narrative Pattern in Robert Penn Warren (Lucy Ferriss)
Barbara Miles – Dark Horse (Margaret Kingery)
Kahlil Wilson – Fuel (Naomi Shihab Nye)
Audrey Young – Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic (Paul Fussell)

Staff Reviews and Comments
Robert Donahoo – Modern Poetry After Modernism (James Longenbach)
Paul Ruffin – Summer of Deliverance (Christopher Dickey)
Paul Ruffin – Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt)
Paul Ruffin – Into That Good Night (Ron Rozelle)

Texas Review Poetry Prize Chapbook
Gordon Weaver – Small Defeats

Fiction
Matt Drummy – Bay State Bombardier
William Harrison – Tickets to Nowhere
David Tillinghast – The Whole World
Robyn Kirby Wright – Watershed (TR Discovery Story)

Essays
Brooke Horvath – Why is the Woman in the Guess Jeans Ad Barefoot?
Bob Winship – Winship's Log, May 4, 1998

Staff Reviews and Comments
Robert Donahoo – At Emerson's Tomb: The Politics of Classic American Literature (John Carlos Rowe)
Robert Donahoo – The Other Fifties: Interrogating Midcentury American Icons (Ed. Joel Foreman)
Paul Ruffin – All Over But the Shoutin' (Rick Bragg)
Paul Ruffin – Cold Mountain (Charles Frazier)
Paul Ruffin – Southern Writers (William W. Starr)
Paul Ruffin – Straight Man (Richard Russo)

Reviews
Brendan Galvin – Days of Our Lives Lie in Fragments (George Garrett)
Marshall Bruce Gentry – Paris: Poems (Jim Barnes), Rough Cut: Poems (Thomas Swiss), Nine Slides: Poems (A.V. Christie)
Delores Ayers Keller – What Else But Love?: The Ordeal in Faulkner and Morrison (Phillip M. Weinstein)
Sheila E. Murphey – Keepers of the Earth (LaVerne Harrell Clark)
Phillip Parotti – Personal Landscapes: British Poets in Egypt During the Second World War (Jonathan Bolton)
Phillip Parotti – The Boys of '98: Theodore Roosevelt and the Rough Riders (Dale L. Walker)
John W. Schwetman – The Club Dumas (Alberto Pérez-Reverte; translated by Sonia Soto)
John W. Schwetman – The Englishman's Boy (Guy Vanderhaeghe)
John Wegner – Cities of the Plain (Cormac McCarthy)
Bob Winship – So There You Are: The Selected Prose of Glenn Brown, Journalist (Ed. Paul Ruffin)

Fiction
Peter Makuck – How You Go Under
Robert Phillips – Ed McMahon, Dick Clark, and the Balloon Man
Mary Summers – The Big Blowdown (TR Discovery)

Essays
Don Graham – Bestiality Studies
Barbara Miles – Robert Phillips on William Goyen: An Interview
Rodney P. Price – Wright Morris and the Poetics of Intimate Space: Photographing the Material Imagination

Poetry
Stephen C. Behrendt – Feeling Sorry for Myself in Lincoln, Nebraska
Mark Cox – Flint Hills
Mark Cox – The Door
Elaine Emmett – Thaw on Lake Winnebago
Elaine Emmett – July Comes to Wichita
Martin Galvin – Boater at Dawn
Maureen Ryan Griffin – Cracking Geodes
Maureen Ryan Griffin – Gems
Linda Lee Harper – Ode to a Pathologist
Roger Jones – Gossip
H.A. Maxson – The Ghost of It
Walt McDonald – After the Madness at Saigon
Walt McDonald – The Unbearable Wisdom of War
Susan Nichols – All My Favorite Teachers Are Spinsters
Ron Rash – Spring Fever
Rainer Schulte – My Father, the Prisoner
Vivian Shipley – Pyrite
Vivian Shipley – At Sixty
Katherine Soniat – Hello and Goodbye at Miracle House
Katherine Soniat – Wetland Braille
Virgil Suarez – White Wall
James Ulmer – Wild Apples
Jake Adam York – Rust
Jake Adam York – August
Jake Adam York – Orchard

Reviews
JoAllen Bradham – Somewhere In All This Green (William Cobb)
Laurie Champion – White Boys: Stories (Reginald McKnight)
Laurie Champion – Don't Erase Me (Carolyn Farrell)
Brian Evenson – Black Flames (Daniel Pearlman)
Philip Heldrich – Inverted Fire (Alice Friman)
Brooke Horvath – Against Distance (Peter Makuck)
Brooke Horvath – Pretty Happy! (Peter Johnson)
Manuel J. Justiz – Voices from the Wild Horse Desert (Jane Clements Monday and Betty Bailey Colley)
Kevin R. McNamara – Finding a Form: Essays (William H. Gass)
Phillip Parotti – Midnight Sandwiches at the Mariposa (Beatriz Rivera)
Phillip Parotti – They Say That I Am Two (Marcos McPeek Villatoro)
Phillip Parotti – The Tree of Life: Stories of the Civil War (Mario Bencastro)
Jack Smith – All the Way Home: Stories and Novella (Geoffrey Clark)
Audery Young – The Creation of Dr. B.: A Biography of Bruno Bettleheim (Richard Pollack)

Fiction
Tom Franklin – Poachers
Lisa Trow – The Bunny Child (TR Discovery Story)

Texas Review Prize Chapbook
Beth Ann Fennelly – A Different Kind of Hunger

Essays
Don Meredith – Looking for Sugar Street
Ernest Suarez – The Onion's Dark Core: A Conversation with David Bottoms

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
John Ditsky – Steinbeck's Typewriter: Essays on His Art (Robert Demott)
Thomas Fensch – John Steinbeck's Nonfiction Revisited (Warren French)
Kevin Hearle – Parallel Expeditions: Charles Darwin and the Art of John Steinbeck (Brian Railsback)
Rodney P. Rice – John Steinbeck: The War Years, 1939-1945 (Roy Simmonds)
Jeffory A. Clymer – Male Call: Becoming Jack London (Jonathan Auerbach)
Ronald Charles Epstein – Novemberland (Günter Grass)
Brian Evenson – Burnt (Lance Olsen)
Greg Garrett – Hunter's Trap (C.W. Smith)
Barbara Miles – William Goyen: Selected Letters of a Writer's Life (Ed. Robert Phillips)
Barbara L. Pittman – Breaking Bounds: Whitman and American Cultural Studies (Eds. Betsy Erkkila and Jay Grossman)
Ron Rash – Wild Peavines (Robert Morgan)
Loren P. Quiring – Floating on Solitude (Dave Smith)
Jack Smith – Jackdog Summer (Geoffrey Clark)

Staff Reviews and Comments
Robert Donahoo – The Future of Southern Letters (Eds. Jefferson Humphries and John Lowe)
Robert Donahoo – The Academic Postmodern and the Rule of Literature: A Report on Half-Knowledge (David Simpson)

Fiction
X.J. Kennedy – Afternoon with a Geek
Robert Winship – Lost River

Essays
Steven Carter – Dissent, Diversity, and the Fictions of Domain
Clay Reynolds – The State of Publishing

Poetry
T. Alan Broughton – Dawn 6
T. Alan Broughton – Dawn 7
George Drew – Agia Anna
John Grey – In Memory of a Riding Partner
Ashley Mace Havird – When Time Stands Still
David Havird – Starburst: An Elegy
David Havird – Twigs
Walt McDonald – One Summer Before Saigon
Walt McDonald – Uncle Carl and Martha
Jane Moreland – Portulaca
Gail J. Peck – In Sickness, In Health
Karen Beth Pettigrew – Muddy
Karen Beth Pettigrew – Perspective
Karen Beth Pettigrew – His Eyes Betray Him
Karen Beth Pettigrew – Quiet, Curteous Performer
Norman Shapiro – Three Poems for Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal
Greg Smith – The Juneteenth Loan
Larry D. Thomas – Great Blue Heron
Larry D. Thomas – Caddoan Indian Mound
William Wenthe – Gar
William Wenthe – Trout Fishing in West Texas
Tom Wright – New Wings
Tom Wright – The Rape of Chiquita
Tom Wright – Refusing Winter

Reviews
Tracy E. Bilsing – The Critical Response to Katherine Mansfield (Ed. Jan Pilditch)
Jon Bolton – Louise MacNeice (Jon Stallworthy) and Auden (Richard Davenport-Hines)
Linda Byrd – Saving Grace (Lee Smith)
Peter Powers – Langston Hughes and the Chicago Defender: Essays on Race, Politics, and Culture, 1942-1962 (Ed. Christopher C. DeSantis)
Rafael E. Saumell – The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien (Oscar Hijuelos)
Peter Serchuk – Beyond the Muse of Memory (Laurence Lieberman)
Barbara M. Tyson – The Liar's Club (Mary Karr)
Richard Williamson – Winesburg, Ohio (Sherwood Anderson)
Robert Winship – Caymon Gold (John Hankins)

Lawrence Broer – Fire and Ice in Dickey's To the White Sea
Nelson Hathcock – No Further Claim to Innocence: James Dickey's Revision of the American War Story
Steven G. Kellman – Sergeant Muldrow's Bird's-Eye View
Irving Malin – First Sight (Site, Cite)
Joyce M. Pair – Measuring the Fictive Motion: War in Deliverance, Alnilam, and To the White Sea
Daniel R. Schwarez – Reconfiguring Deliverance: James Dickey, the Modern Tradition and the Resistant Reader
Ernest Suarez – "Real God, Roll": Muldrow's Primitive Creed
Ernest Suarez – An Interview with James Dickey: Poet as Novelist

Fiction
Richard Bausch – From Good Evening Mr. and Mrs. American, And All the Ships at Sea
Robert Bausch – From A Hole in the Earth
Alan Cheuse – From On Earth As It Is
Clay Reynolds – From The Poet
Allen Wier – From a novel-in-progress

Essays
Tom Hansen – Unholy Matrimony: The Kiss of the Vampire
Clay Reynolds – The Good Boy
Paul H. Lorenz – Road to Missolonghi

Poetry
Cheryl Joy Allman – The Dance
Cheryl Joy Allman – Fires
Cheryl Joy Allman – The Quilt
Robert M. Chute – Death Suspended
Greg Glazner – The Oath
Greg Glazner – The End of a Season
Karen Kinnison – The Winter Patient
Sylvia Manning – for Estella
Hallie Moore – Staying Cool at Lake Livingston
Linda Phillips – Oceanography
Ron Rash – Hydraulic
Ron Rash – Good Friday, 1995: Watagua County
Daniel White – A Legacy

Reviews
JoAllen Bradham – Harry Reunited (Will Cobb)
Tim Carroll – In the Arms of Our Elders (William Henry Lewis)
Laurie Champion – Can You Get There from Here? (Donley Watt)
Ronald Charles Epstein – Always a Reckoning and Other Poems (Jimmy Carter)
Kevin Hearle – Parallel Expeditions: Charles Darwin and the Art of John Steinbeck (Brian Railsback)
Scott M. Kampmeier – Art from the Ashes: A Holocaust Anthology (Ed. Lawrence L. Langer)
John Kennedy – Crossovers (Thomas Reiter)
Phillip Parotti – The Aztec Chronicles: The True History of Christopher Columbus (Joseph P. Sanchez)
Peter Powers – Within the Circle: An Anthology of African-American Literary Criticism from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present (Ed. Angelyn Mitchell)
John Schwetman – Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West (Stephen Ambrose)
Mary Lee Settle – The King of Babylon Shall Not Come Against You (George Garrett)
Steve Sherwood – Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (Anne Lamont)
Beverly Spears – Ellen Glasgow and a Woman's Traditions (Pamela R. Matthews)
Terry Thaxton – Worshipful Company of Fletchers (James Tate)
John Wegner – Persona Humor in Mark Twain's Early Writings (Don Florence)
John Wegner – Sacred Violence: A Reader's Companion to Cormac McCarthy (Ed. Wade Hall and Rich Wallach)
Robert Donahoo – Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South (John Edgerton)

Fiction
Barnes Carr – The Blue Room
Christie Hodgen – Letting Out (TR Discovery Story)
Gretchen McCullough – The Gate
Dabney Stuart – The Watcher Inside
Kim Trevathan – Walking on Water
Richard Wirick – Summer's Blood

Essays
Erika Gottlieb – The Satirical Masks of Utopia and Dystopia
Don Meredith – The Fax: A Memoir of Dylan Thomas's Wales

Poetry
John Carr – Walking Up On a Sheep Island
John Carr – We Will Sleep Together Again
Carlota Caulfield – Letter From a Virgin of the Sun to Her Lover
Philip Dacey – Florence Nightingale in Egypt
Brenda Brown Finnegan – The Asmat Comes to Town
Brenda Brown Finnegan – Spring Break
Martin Galvin – School Nurse
Stephen Gardner – Drinking Toward Sleep
Stephen Gardner – Pastoral in the Shadow of a City
Walter Griffin – First Bath
Allen Hoey – Clockworks at the British Museum
Roger Jones – Arrivals
Roger Jones – A Door Ajar
Roger Jones – Eclipse
Michael Lieberman – The Cure of Logic
Michael Lieberman – The Examined Life
Michael Lieberman – Goldin Meditates on Providence
Michael Lieberman – Hebrews
Michael Lieberman – Hudspeth's Patient
Michael Lieberman – The Phone Call
Tom McDaniel – Raising the Mast
Candace Manroe – Unseasonal Ending
Dave Parsons – Comforter
Dave Parsons – Memories of Camp Mathews (1961) in Finnish Rhapsody
Kevin Prufer – Winter in Devessey
Henry Taylor – A Horseshoe to Hang Over the Door
Henry Taylor – In Memory of Dave Gardner
Larry D. Thomas – Fox Fire
Larry D. Thomas – Of Eyes Wondrously Wild

Reviews
Jon Bolton – The Life of Graham Greene, Volume II (Norman Sherry)
Tim Carroll – Redeye, A Western (Clyde Edgerton)
Paul William Child – Gulliver's Travels: Case Studies in Comtemporary Criticism (Ed. Christopher Fox)
Chuck Etheridge – John Steinbeck: Disstertation Abstracts and Research Opportunities (Ed. Tetsumaro Hayashi and Beverly Simpson)
Scott M. Kampmeier – Science and the Fouding Fathers: Science in the Political Thought of Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, & James Madison (I. Bernard Cohen)
Phillip Parotti – Evelyn Waugh: A Biography (Selina Hastings)

Staff Reviews and Comments
Gorman Beauchamp – Henry James and the Art of Nonfiction (Tony Tanner)
Robert Donahoo – Modernism From Right to Left: Wallace Stevens, the Thirties, and Literary Radicalism (Alan Filreis)
Robert Donahoo – A Southern Weave of Women: Fiction of the Contemporary South (Linda Tate)
Paul Ruffin – Life Estates (Shelby Hearon)
Paul Ruffin – The Whole Story: Editors on Fiction (Warren Sleasinger)