The Antioch Review back issues from June 1995:
"Lesbian love" from 'The Mysteries of New Orleans.' (fiction)(excerpt)
Jun 22, 1995; ... Baron Ludwig von Reizenstein (1826-1885), the elder son of an administrator of the Bavarian state customs service and scion of an ancient Franconian noble house, was shipped overseas in 1849 by his father for personal instability and possible sexual deviance. The Reizenstein family had been ...
The Mexican maid. (short story)
Jun 22, 1995; ... It never occurred to Birnhaus that he might clean the apartment himself. Immediately after Sara's departure he had dabbled at dishwashing and in the three months since then he had changed the bedsheets a few times - as many times as he had had other women in their bed - but that was about ...
The criminal element. (short story)
Jun 22, 1995; ... 1Choosing to kidnap the priest may be a mistake. I admit it. Nobody cares about Catholics anymore. The church is a franchise, like McDonald's or Burger King. But the move's bound to bring attention to the institute.We've considered taking a doctor instead. They're as bad ...
Night-blooming Cereus. (poem)
Jun 22, 1995; ... I push away a nearly irresistible sleep to follow her in her pale gown.Our flashlights braid wide swaths of green on the lawn."We plant it," he'd said, "then wait for it to surprise us." She had outwaited him.Then, one day, a tiny pearl appeared in the notch of ...
The Hotel Di L'Altissimo. (poem)
Jun 22, 1995; ... The wind ambushes the beach. Who is at fault? Best to leave the coast, best to stay inland. The Hotel di l' Altissimo's facade, stained by salt, is all that remains, etched over the years by sand.Don Tormentati thought this a prime lagoon, thought he could lure Europe's wealth ...
Stage whisper. (poem)
Jun 22, 1995; ... We only give away what we know we'll get more of or get again, and stories are like pennies or paper clips so much in supply most we don't bother to collect, finding our pockets, our papers, our lives full enough, fat with things outside need.Outside, the universe is tired of ...
Promise without a name. (poem)
Jun 22, 1995; ... What can I promise you? What do you want?Mariposa lilies and a hemline of salt lace on the skirt of the sea?Nothing gratuitous, just what follows from watching and waiting.I can give you a wind-sculpted nesting cave, one of multiple eyes on the massive ...
White. (poem)
Jun 22, 1995; ... She had told no one. She was playing solitaire. I read the morning paper. My father, outside, brought cordwood to the house in a blue wheelbarrow.There was the slick sound of a playing card on the maple table, a slap that signaled a finality. I glanced up & met the blue eyes of my ...
Gentle. (poem)
Jun 22, 1995; ... My mother, dying, observes her fifty-year marriage, says, "We could have been more gentle with each other." And I watch my father slumped in a chair by her bed, reaching finally, when she gives in to sleep, to touch her hand pale against the white sheet.There's a quiet, like water ...
Psalm. (poem)
Jun 22, 1995; ... The sky is the red of the healing wound of St. Agatha. New light cast on the seven dead geese stacked in the bed of the truck. Their wings stiff around their bodies make them cocoons of former flight.The boy's breath, like a white wing, hangs in the air above him. His ears pink ...
Herida de amor. (poem)
Jun 22, 1995; ... Ah, it's been a long time, no? the waiter says. Yes, I say, unsure. I am the only customer. I ask for a Budweiser. You are always doing that, he says, Here you should drink Mexican beer.He gestures to a poster on the wall. A woman in a dress, with a pattern of small bright birds, ...
The giant ants of Texas. (poem)
Jun 22, 1995; ... "It's like we're inside the pie And those clouds are the meringue," Mrs. Courtney says. I can't see the clouds, or rather Myopia makes everything a cloud.When I was fevered, Mrs. Courtney left the other boarders To prepare me tea with the leaves of the pepper plant. She bathed my ...
Getting there. (poem)
Jun 22, 1995; ... Jack turned on the dome light to roll a joint. Sunday night - school tomorrow. Fuck it.Seven days a week stoned. I had to piss so we drove to our spot behind the industrial park. I stood in the frozen rutted mud and closed my eyes. I tried to remember why I did this.Stan ...
Firebrand at work. (Horace Brisbane Liveright)
Jun 22, 1995; ... Horace Brisbane Liveright, former Wall Street bond salesman and a high school dropout, created the most magnificent yet messy publishing firm this century has seen. During his thirteen-year career, Liveright became as notorious for the kinds of books he published as for the way in which he ...
Getting around Palmyra. (short story)
Jun 22, 1995; ... Stuart has to draw a fine line with his roommate Palmyra. For example, right now she wants him to go out and call their apartment from a pay phone.Her plan is simple: she phones the man she loves like no other, the Gorton Fisherman, and Call Waiting (that will be Stuart, from the ...
Blue Spruce.(Brief Article)
Jun 22, 1995; ... There are no larger-than-life heroes in this collection of 12 stories, only simple people whom the reader comes to know intimately, as old friends returned home. Long probes into the hearts and souls of his characters and uncovers the secret longings, hidden desires, and extinguished ...
Ohio Politics.(Brief Article)
Jun 22, 1995; ... Lamis considers post-World War II Ohio politics by combining presentations by journalists and by political scientists in a uniquely organized collaboration. Following a brief history of Ohio politics are analyses of the terms of the seven post-World War II governors - Lausche, O'Neill, ...
Talking Up a Storm: Voices of the New West.(Brief Article)
Jun 22, 1995; ... This incisive book of interviews provides a glimpse into the craft and character of 15 contemporary writers of the American West. With knowledge and insight, Morris records dialogues with Ralph Beer, Mary Clearman Blew, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, James Crumley, Ivan Doig, Gretel Ehrlich, Richard ...
Dared and Done: The Marriage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning.(Brief Article)
Jun 22, 1995; ... Nothing characterizes the romantic period of mid-Victorian England more completely than the marriage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning (1846-1861), a marriage so intertwined with art that it may stand today as another, an all-encompassing Work, a sort of poetic duet in which each note ...
The Physics of Immortality.(Brief Article)
Jun 22, 1995; ... God exists; all of us will be resurrected and, following the resurrection, live forever. Surely such claims belong in a work of fiction, or as a testimony of revelation, not as here, in a book of science making claims for their truth value. In Tipler's theory each theological term (e.g., ...
American Tabloid.(Brief Article)
Jun 22, 1995; ... Ellroy, author of The Black Dahlia and three other novels, weighs in with his most ambitious and intricately plotted homage to Raymond Chandler, Jim Thompson, and the hard-boiled detective novels of the 1940s. Though on the surface the novel constructs a fantastically complex scenario for ...
The Paperboy.(Brief Article)
Jun 22, 1995; ... The title comes from the dismissive name a convicted murderer gives to two investigative reporters who are his only chance to escape the gas chamber. But the man, Hilliary Van Wetter, is part of an insular, inbred extended family from the swamps of northern Florida, who are uncommunicative, ...
Becoming Canonical in American Poetry.(Brief Article)
Jun 22, 1995; ... Through a filter that takes into account (and sometimes to task) literary theories of M.M. Bakhtin (monologic versus dialogic). Harold Bloom (strong texts and influence), Umberto Eco (closed and open texts), and even Philip Rahv (Paleface and Redskin), Morris traces the critical and popular ...
Always, Rachel: The Letters of Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman, 1952-1964.(Brief Article)
Jun 22, 1995; ... Carson was 46 when she met Dorothy Freeman and her husband, Stanley, in 1953. Freeman was nearly a decade older and a new grandmother. Although Carson was already a famous author, she had yet to write Silent Spring, her landmark environmental "wake-up call." These newly published letters, ...
Readin' Country Music: South Atlantic Quarterly, March 1995.
Jun 22, 1995; ... The relationship between music and identity has gained considerable attention over the past 15 years. Culture critic Dick Hebdige established the foundation for this scholarship with the publication of Subculture: The Meaning of Style (1979). Since that time several musical genres have ...
Lonesome: The American Culture of Country Music.
Jun 22, 1995; ... The relationship between music and identity has gained considerable attention over the past 15 years. Culture critic Dick Hebdige established the foundation for this scholarship with the publication of Subculture: The Meaning of Style (1979). Since that time several musical genres have ...
Dissonant Identities: The Rock 'n' Roll Scene in Austin, Texas.
Jun 22, 1995; ... The relationship between music and identity has gained considerable attention over the past 15 years. Culture critic Dick Hebdige established the foundation for this scholarship with the publication of Subculture: The Meaning of Style (1979). Since that time several musical genres have ...
The Oxford Book of Modern Women's Stories.(Brief Article)
Jun 22, 1995; ... One of the strengths of this superb anthology is its delightfully quirky preface, where Craig outlines her selection process and demonstrates the necessity for the "women" in her title. While rejecting the idea of a "woman's story," she argues forcefully for the need of such a volume to ...
Family Secrets: William Butler Yeats and His Relatives.(Brief Article)
Jun 22, 1995; ... W.B. Yeats's brother Jack was one of the most respected painters of his day. His maiden sisters, Susan (Lily) and Elizabeth (Lollie), ran the famous Cuala Press, which published such writers as Synge and Pound. His father, John Butler, though a failure both as artist and as family provider, ...
Cleopatra's Nose: Essays on the Unexpected.(Brief Article)
Jun 22, 1995; ... There is little startling, new, or unexpected in these "essays on the unexpected." The most provocative argue that we now live in the age of the "machine kingdom." Machines, unlike plants, animals, and minerals, create their own environments and foster "cataclysmic rates of change." Our ...
After the Fact: Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist.(Brief Article)
Jun 22, 1995; ... This memoir by the eminent cultural anthropologist functions at several levels. It is worth reading just for the well-chosen and narrated anecdotes from Geertz's fieldwork in Indonesia and Morocco. This book is also an anthropological critique of the extensive political-economic changes in ...
The Tunnel.(Brief Article)
Jun 22, 1995; ... Having completed his magnum opus, Guilt & Innocence in Hitler's Germany, William Frederick Kohler, distinguished professor of history at a distinguished Indiana University, sits in his chair, intending to write an introduction. Blocked, he writes instead a history of history, or better a ...
Thinking the World Visible.(Brief Article)
Jun 22, 1995; ... Wohlfeld's first book was selected by James Dickey for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Her title introduces the reader to an oddly empirical hermeticism. Inquiry is her implicit strategy; ecstasy, her end. The poems move by means of accreted associations, by catalogue, disjunctive "notes," ...
Split Horizon.(Brief Article)
Jun 22, 1995; ... Let there be Lux. And here is Lux with another set of missives from the land of plain talk. We all want to get there but don't know the way. Lux could light us but we'd still get lost in our specific interioralities. But he tries, in a kind of poem that brims with joy, that says, "Look what ...
The Flying Garcias.(Brief Article)
Jun 22, 1995; ... Garcia's first book persuades by tone alone. Through accumulating, reminiscent anecdotes, his poems suggest a character, and it is this character' s tone of voice that carries hi s poems. For example, "I led my lover's sister across the polished floor." "I would like to make the appropriate ...