REVIEW

THE SOUTH CAROLINA REVIEW SPRING 1996 VOL. 28, NO.2

The South Carolina Review, Volume 28, No. 2, Spring 1996 ispublished by Clemson University.C1996 Clemson University. ISSN: 0038-3163

E D I T O R S :Richard J. Calhoun, Editor Emeritus.Frank Day and Carol Johnston.

ADVISORY BOARDFrederick W. Shilstone, Hallman B. Bryant, G. William Koon,Mark S. Steadman, Sterling Eisiminger, Ronald Moran, DonnaHaisty Winchell, Lucy Rollin, C. Harold Woodell.

MANAGING EDITORFrank Day.

ASSISTANT TO THE MANAGING EDITORRachel M. Mercuri.

ASSISTANT EDITORSIla Fakla, Anne McKenzie, Suzie Medders, Amanda Paulette,Jeannie Sullivan, Irfan Tak.

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Cover Photograph of Doris Belts by Gary Meeks.

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C O N T E N T

INTERVIEW

Conversations with Doris Betts 4Conversations with Iris Murdoch 53

FICTION

Maggie Rindfuss • Reckoning 14Ken Grant • A Satisfied Mind 32M. Dionetti • A Portrait of 'the Artist as a Grown Woman 61Becky Bradway • Rose of Sharon 69Sylvia Lyon Rodman • Betrayal 87Marlin Barton • A Father and Son 132D awn Newton • Scavengers of a Hungry Time 144Paul Ruffin • The Dawning of Rose Marie 167Cheryl Pearl Sucher • Kishinev 174Patricia Harrington Wysor • Mission Street 189Roger Lee Kenvin • The Eye of the Piano 204Donna Stein • Lambada 219Steven Carter • The Winner 230Cornelius Lehane • The Bronx Revisited 263Laurie Hertzel • Wheels 273

POETRY

Virginia Ottley Craighill • Three Women WatchingM.zdzme. Bovary 3Donna Stein • Jack and the Beanstalk 13Charles Edward Eaton • The Convalescent 60Daniel Corrie • Unpromised 68Doric LaRue • A Tale from Old lona 84Karen I. Jacquish • Laundromat 86Sandra Liatsos • Helga in Winter 107Dian Beck • Scrabble 108Carl Lindner • Signs 143Rawdon Tomlinson • Home Movies 157William Pratt • Under the High Cross ofMuiredach 165

A Flamingo at Ballycotton Bay 165Coole Park Revisited 166

Anna Gorrick • Bellevue, Thorns, Clearwater 172John Thomas York • The Death of Superman 201Glenda Ebersole • Billy and Kirsten 202Kim Roberts • Orbit 218Joan Rudel Pardes • Mother's Skins 228Eve Braden Hatchett • Sing to Me, Elvis ..229

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POETRY

R. T. Smith • Blowout 238Michael Cadnum • Ever After 239Harold B. McSween • Jackson Square 296

ESSAYS

Thomas Zelman • Frosfs Open-Endedness: Love, Indeterminacy, and MudTime 9

Hilary Holladay • The Street: Lutie Johnson's Avenue of Escape 22Jeffrey J. Folks • The Ideal of Community in Ernest J. Gaines's

"A Gathering of Old Men". 44Paula Gallant Eckard • "Good Hearts": Immersed in Time 78Marilyn Arnold • The Devastating Consequences of What "The Whole

World Knows" 100Jason Isaac Mauro • Frost and James: "The Gaps I Mean" 110Anne Shifrer • Luminism and the Lyric:William Bailey and The

Continuous Life by Mark Strand 240David C. Dougherty • The Sacco-Vanzetti Case and the "Political

Secession" of John Dos Passos 251

THE REPUBLIC OF LETTERS

Glenn W. Erickson • On Kristeva 160

REVIEWS

Claire Bateman • The Given and the Made and The Breaking Up 280Jeffrey Melnick • Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Ame-

rican Working Class 282Stuart Wright • Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life 284Kevin J.H.Dettmar* The Hidden Law: The Poetry of W.H.Auden 286Jonathan N. Barron • City Poet: The Life a-nd Times of Frank O'Hara....288

CONTRIBUTORS......... .........293