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2006 EDITORS Daniel Kempton, Director of English Graduate Studies H Shawangunk Review State University of New York at New Paltz New Paltz, New York Volume XVII Spring 2006 EDITORS Daniel Kempton, Director of English Graduate Studies H. R. Stoneback, Department of English GUEST EDITOR for the SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL ENGLISH GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM and ROBERT PENN WARREN MATERIALS H. R. Stoneback TheShawangunk Review is the journal of the English Graduate Program at the State University of New York, New Paltz. TheReview publishes the proceedings of the annual English Graduate Symposium and literary articles by graduate students as well as poetry, fiction, and book reviews by students and faculty. The views expressed in the Shawangunk Review are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the Department of English at SUNY New Paltz. Please address corre- spondence to Shawangunk Review, Department of English, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY 256. Copyright © 2006 Department of English, SUNY New Paltz. All rights reserved. Table of Contents From the Editors Introduction I The Robert Penn Warren Centennial Symposium H. R. STONEBACK Keynote Addresses II 4 Purity, Panic, and Pasiphaë in Brother to Dragons JOHN BURT 24 Shadowing Old Red: The Editor as Gumshoe WILLIAM BEDFORD CLARK Distinguished Guest Panelists III 3 A Tribute to Robert Penn Warren from New Paltz RICHARD ALLAN DAVISON 33 The Prose and Poetry of Robert Penn Warren DONALD JUNKINS 36 Who Were Chief Joseph & the Nez Perce? ROBERT W. LEWIS (Why Did RPW Write About Them)? Symposium Papers IV 38 Discovering the Sacred Light of Secular Conditions: MICHAEL BEILFUSS Coleridge’s Light of Imagination in Warren’s Criticism and Poetry 44 “I Require of You Only to Look”: Warren’s Mystical Vision WILLIAM BOYLE 50 “Depth and Shimmer” or “The Secret of Contact” NICOLE CAMASTRA in Elizabeth Madox Roberts and Robert Penn Warren 56 Sweeter than Hope: A Dantean Journey D. A. CARPENTER to the Recognition of Complicity 62 “Birth of Love”: Robert Penn Warren’s Mystical Vision JOSHUA GRAN of Life’s Embedded Spirit 67 Paths of Sin: A Study of the Human Condition NOAH SIMON JAMPOL in Robert Penn Warren’s “Blackberry Winter” 72 Bridging the “Continental” to the Continent: JAMES STAMANT Complicity and the “Frozen Moment” in Warren and Hemingway 78 Cleansing Waters of the Flood: GORETTI VIANNEY-BENCA Understanding That Our Lives Are Blessed in Robert Penn Warren’s Flood 84 Drowning in the Darkness: Robert Penn Warren TIFFANY A. WOOTTEN and the Human Communion Unpublished Warren Letters V 89 Introduction H. R. STONEBACK 9 Letters Warren’s Unpublished Fiction VI 96 An Introduction to “Goodbye, Jake” H. R. STONEBACK 00 Goodbye, Jake ROBERT PENN WARREN The Craft of Warren’s Poetry VII The Evolution of “Amazing Grace in the Back Country” H. R. STONEBACK 3 Amazing Grace in the Back Country ROBERT PENN WARREN Homage to RPW Poetry Reading VIII 20 Introduction H.R. STONEBACK 23 Warren’s Flowers DAVE SMITH 25 September Song DONALD JUNKINS 26 Robert Penn Warren Puzzles Over a Variant ROBERT KELLY in a Stanza of Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” 3 from Homage: A Letter to Robert Penn Warren H. R. STONEBACK 36 The Passing of the Armies JOHN BURT 42 2495 Redding Road WILLIAM BEDFORD CLARK 43 The Onion-Barn JAMES FINN COTTER 44 Waiting It Out ROBERT H. WAUGH 45 Tattoo DENNIS DOHERTY 47 To Robert Penn Warren LYNN BEHRENDT 48 Red’s Song MICHAEL BEILFUSS 50 The Original Sin Boys WILLIAM BOYLE 52 Hey Mr. Warren (Awake with a Branded Soul) D. A. CARPENTER 54 God Have Mercy on the Mariner… where BRAD MCDUFFIE … the girls wear … no panties … and have smooth little faces to break your heart … 56 Not Just La Patria—Homage of an Expatriate MATTHEW NICKEL Hurricane Poems IX 58 Introduction H.R. STONEBACK 60 The Storm Dance ROBERT H. WAUGH 62 North South PAULINE UCHMANOWICZ 63 Down to Wine WILLIAM BOYLE 64 Dogs of Disaster DENNIS DOHERTY 65 Last Call Before the Flood BRAD MCDUFFIE 67 from Hurricane Hymn H. R. STONEBACK 77 The Unfortunate Meeting of Delta Blues and Jazz D. A. CARPENTER 79 To Those with the Most Light JENICA SHAPIRO 8 Just Things JULIE O’NIELL 83 Poem for Katrina JAMIE MANNING 84 A Salutation to Darkness MATTHEW NICKEL 88 On Women in the Priesthood LYNN BEHRENDT 89 Sheer Red Beauty LYNN BEHRENDT 90 Collision of Worlds: With My JAN ZLOTNIK SCHMIDT Niece, Samantha 92 Calving JACK FOSTER Other Essays X 95 My Climax in Reading Johnson Explained David Alfieri Or Roland Barthes’s Pleasure and Bliss in Denis Johnson’s Jesus’ Son 20 Pregnancy Potion No. 9 JESSICA NAPOLITANO 209 The Perils of Prospero’s Magicin Shakespeare’s The Tempest JIM PERRY 25 The Unfortunate Triumph of the German Will BIANCA SAUSA Literacy Narratives XI 222 Introduction LYNNE CROCKETT 224 Self-Interest and the Teaching of College Composition DAVID ALFIERI 230 My Life’s Opposition:A Teaching Narrative ANDREA DITTER 235 Catholic School + Construction Paper + GLORIA M. WINTER Morning Sickness = One Tired Writer Book Reviews XII 239 Camille Paglia. Break, Blow, Burn THOMAS G. OLSEN 244 True Under Kilimanjaro: Truth & Lies, Story H. R. STONEBACK & Truthiness in Hemingway’s African Memoir XIII News and Notes 249 News and Notes XIV Guidelines for Submissions 253 Guidelines for Submissions XV Contributors 254 Contributors From the Editors As we go to press with Volume XVII of the Shawangunk Review, Thomas Festa is completing preparations for the Eighteenth Annual English Graduate Sympo- sium, “Shakespeare and the Paradoxes of Political Tragedy,” to be held on April 26th. Professor Festa has arranged an excellent program of graduate student papers and has invited Kimberly Benston, the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English at Haverford College, to give the keynote address, entitled “The Unbearable Lear- ness of Being, or: Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life?” Professor Benston is the author of numerous acclaimed books and articles on English Renaissance drama, performance theory, and African-American literature including Perform- ing Blackness: Enactments of African-American Modernism (Routledge, 2000) and Baraka: The Renegade and the Mask(Yale, 976). For 2007 Christopher Link will direct the Symposium on the topic of “The Bible and Literature”; please get in touch with Professor Link if you would like to participate in the Symposium, and watch for his posting of a call for papers. This year’s issue of the Review features the proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Graduate Symposium, “The Robert Penn Warren Centennial Symposium,” directed by H. R. Stoneback. The editors would like to express their gratitude to John Burt and William Bedford Clark for granting us permission to publish their keynote addresses. In addition to the Symposium proceedings, which includes a selection of poems from the “Homage to RPW Poetry Reading,” Professor Stone- back has assembled and edited a remarkable collection of unpublished Warren materials for this issue, including an early story, letters, and drafts of a poem. I think you will agree that Volume XVII of the Review offers a compelling tribute to Warren and makes an important contribution to Warren scholarship. Professor Stoneback has also edited a special section of poems from a read- ing at the Oasis Café to benefit victims of hurricanes Katrina and Rita. We are happy to announce that for the first time the Review contains a selection of liter- acy narratives from the students in the Modern Theories of Writing course. And, as always, the Review contains the best critical essays of the past year by students in our MA, MAT, and MS programs For Volume XVIII of the Review, we encourage submissions of poetry, short | i fiction, book reviews, and critical essays concerning any area of literary studies. Students writing theses (4590) should consult with their advisors and submit an abstract of approximately 50 words for the “Abstracts of MA Theses” section. Please see submission guidelines on page 253. We ask readers to provide information regarding the many distinguished achievements of our current and former graduate students for our “News and Notes” column. For example, we would like to know the details of conference participation, publications, grants, and honors, as well as news regarding progress of our MA graduates in PhD programs and reports about teaching and employ- ment activities. Thanks to Jason Taylor for layout, typesetting, and production supervision; and to Jason Cring for the cover art. —DANIEL KEMPTON ii | SHAWANGUNK REVIEW I Introduction The Robert Penn Warren Centennial Symposium H. R. Stoneback The Seventeenth Annual SUNY New Paltz English Department Graduate Sym- posium—The Robert Penn Warren Centennial Symposium—under the direction of H. R. Stoneback, took place on May 2-3, 2005. Two keynote speakers, three vis- iting scholar-panelists, and nine New Paltz graduate students gave presentations at the academic sessions on May 3. The opening program of the symposium was the “Homage to RPW Poetry Reading” on May 2, an extraordinary event at which seventeen poets and writers read tributes to Warren. A total of twenty-four speak- ers participated in the symposium programs, including twelve visiting speakers and readers who came from afar to celebrate the Warren Centennial. At the opening “Homage to RPW” program, hosted and moderated by Professor Stoneback, tributes to Warren were presented by a remarkable lineup of poets and writers of national and international reputation, including Chinua Achebe, Donald Junkins, Robert Kelly, Joan Murray, and Dave Smith, as well as a number of New Paltz faculty members and graduate students, and other poets from the Hudson Valley region. For a complete roster of the readers and details of that event see the separate introduction hereafter, “Homage: Poems for Robert Penn Warren,” which includes poems read at that program.
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