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archipelago An International Journal of Literature, the Arts, and Opinion www.archipelago.org Vol. 7, No. 1 Spring 2003 Two Stories: JOEL AGEE German Lessons and Killing a Turtle Visual Fiction: ROSAMOND CASEY White Noise, from Mapping the Dark Essay: HOLLY WOODWARD Paradise, Last Fiction: MIRIAM BEN-YAACOV Sisterly Love Four Poems: GU CHENG tr. from the Chinese by AARON CRIPPEN Fiction: CARA CHAMBERLAIN Birds Fiction: FRED JOHNSTON Collateral Damage Travel: KATE SCHAPIRA Tierra del Fuego by Bus Opinion: RAYMOND D. STROTHER On Politics and Campaigns Endnotes: KATHERINE McNAMARA Patriotism and the Right of Free Speech in Wartime Recommended Reading: Karen Alkalay-Gut Talks to Moshe Benarroch Letters to the Editor: On the War and Dissent Printed from our Download Edition archipelago www.archipelago.org CONTENTS JOEL AGEE German Lessons 17 Killing a Turtle 30 ROSAMOND CASEY White Noise, from Mapping the Dark 35 HOLLY WOODWARD Paradise, Last 37 MIRIAM BEN-YAACOV Sisterly Love 42 GU CHENG Four Poems 54 CARA CHAMBERLAIN Birds 58 FRED JOHNSTON Collateral Damage 64 KATE SCHAPIRA Tierra del Fuego by Bus 75 RAYMOND D. STROTHER On Politics and Campaigns 77 KATHERINE McNAMARA Patriotism and the Right of Free Speech in Wartime 86 Recommended Reading: KAREN ALKALAY-GUT talks to MOSHE BENARROCH 105 Masthead 3 Contributors 4 Letters to the Editor: On the War and Dissent 7 Support Archipelago 112 ARCHIPELAGO 2 Vol. 7, No. 1 Spring 2003 archipelago http://www.archipelago.org Editor and Publisher Katherine McNamara Assistant Editor Heather Burns <[email protected]> <[email protected]> Contributing Editors K. Callaway <[email protected]> Production design and formatting John Casey <[email protected]> Debra Weiss <[email protected]> Benjamin Cheever <[email protected]> Edith Grossman Editorial Staff Odile Hellier <[email protected]> Cynthia Tedesco Katharine Meyer <[email protected]> Arthur Molella <[email protected]> Letters to the Editor are welcomed, by post or via the Internet. All submissions on paper must be typed and double- ARCHIPELAGO spaced and sent by post with SASE or SAE and Box 2485 International Reply Coupon. An e-mail address is Charlottesville, Va. 22902-2485 USA appreciated. No electronic submissions will be E-mail: [email protected] considered unless Editor is queried beforehand. and instructions in reply are followed. We encourage Readers to download and distribute this journal in our Download edition, a pdf file, which can be saved and read off-line and printed. Instructions for use - including access to the freeware Adobe Reader - appear on the Download page of the on-line edition. All previous issues are available in the Download/pdf editions. All individual articles are available on-line at Archive. The authors published herein retain copyright and the right to be acknowledged as the moral authors of their work. No original part of this issue may appear in another publication, either electronic or in print, except identified as part of Archipelago and with permission from Archipelago. ©1996-2003 Archipelago. Acknowledgements/permissions: Joel Agee’s “Killing a Turtle” appeared in DoubleTake, Issue 6, Summer 1996; “German Lessons,” in Harper’s, February 2001. / ©2003 Raymond D. Strother, FALLING UP, HOW A REDNECK HELPED INVENT POLITICAL CONSULTING is published by Louisiana State University Press http://www.lsu.edu/lsupress/catalog/Spring2003/books/Strother_Falling_Up.html. ARCHIPELAGO 3 Vol. 7, No. 1 Spring 2003 &&&&&& Contributors Joel Agee [email protected] is the author of TWELVE YEARS: AN AMERICAN BOYHOOD IN EAST GERMANY (University of Chicago Press, p.b., 2000), a memoir of his life behind the Iron Curtain from ages eight to twenty. His essays and stories have appeared in publications such as Harper’s, The New Yorker, and The Best American Essays. He is also known as a translator of German literary works, among them Rilke’s LETTERS ON CÉZANNE (Fromm International Publishing Corporation, 1985) and Elias Canetti’s THE SECRET HEART OF THE CLOCK (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1989). He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1999 he won the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize for his translation of Heinrich von Kleist’s PENTHESILEA (HarperCollins, 2000). (See “Passion” http://www.archipelago.org/vol3-1/endnotes.htm, Archipelago, Vol. 3, No. 1.) Joel Agee has just completed a memoir-novel, IN THE HOUSE OF MY FEAR, from which the two stories in this issue are taken. “Killing a Turtle” appeared in DoubleTake, Issue 6, Summer 1996; “German Lessons,” in Harper’s, February 2001. His story “The Storm” appeared in Vol. 4, No. 4 http://www.archipelago.org/vol4-4/agee.htm. Miriam Ben-Yaacov, a native of South Africa, is a graduate of UNO Writer’s Workshop. During her late teens and early twenties she lived in Israel. There she met her husband. They have two sons and have lived in Omaha for the last twenty-three years. Miriam Ben-Yaacov has published fiction and poetry and participated in local and regional readings. Her writing reflects life in the Midwest and her South African and Eastern European Jewish heritage. She is a winner of the Merit Award from the Nebraska Arts Council’s Individual Artists Fellowships Program (1997). Miriam Ben-Yaacov also was a Hatha Yoga instructor. Rosamond Casey [email protected] is an artist and calligrapher. Her mixed media paintings, books and calligraphy have been exhibited or published abroad as well as in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Virginia, Maryland, and Washington D.C. Most recently, her work was exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. She is the sole proprietor of Treehouse Book Arts, a school for adults and children in the arts of handmade papermaking, calligraphy and book making, and the current President of the McGuffey Art Center a cooperative arts organization in Charlottesville, Virginia, comprised of 40 artists studios and several public exhibition spaces. Rosamond Casey holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts and Tufts University. She lives with her husband, novelist John Casey, in Charlottesville, Virginia. Cara Chamberlain [email protected] is an instructor at Florida Southern College. Her work has appeared widely and is forthcoming in The Spoon River Poetry Review, Asheville Poetry Review, Rosebud, The MacGuffin, and Albatross, among others. She was recently nominated for the third time for a Pushcart Prize. ARCHIPELAGO 4 Vol. 7, No. 1 Spring 2003 Contributors Gu Cheng (1956-1993) was a figurehead of Obscure or “Misty” Chinese poetry, which flourished in the 1980’s. He burst onto the Beijing literary scene in 1979 with poems that were affectingly simply and melancholy, willfully naïve, even sentimental, but lurid and strange, like Blake’s. He met and befriended Bei Dao, Shu Ting, Yang Lian and others at the underground Today magazine. Gu Cheng’s later poetry is starkly disillusioned and powerful. In 1998 a film based on his life entitled The Poet was released in Hong Kong. Aaron Crippen [email protected] is in the University of Houston’s Creative Writing Program. For his translations of Gu Cheng he won the 2001 American Translators Association Student Award. In 2001 he also received the PEN Texas Literary Award for Poetry. Fred Johnston [email protected] was born Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1951. He founded Galway city’s annual literature festival and its writers’ centre. His poetry, prose and criticism have appeared in the U.S. and U.K. in, among others, The Sewanee Review, Southern Review, Literary Review (N.Y.), The Sunday Times, The Times Literary Supplement (TLS). He is also involved in playing traditional music. He lives in Galway. Kate Schapira’s [email protected] work has appeared in a number of print and online publications. Her story “Atwater I/i” was recently nominated for a 2003 Pushcart prize, and she is currently in the throes of a novel. She teaches U.S. Women’s History at Camp Beacon Women’s Correctional Facility, thanks to a grant from the American Association of University Women, and lives in the Hudson Valley. Raymond D. Strother, except for a brief stint with the Associated Press, has “been involved in political hackdom all my adult life.” He began at a firm in Baton Rouge in the 1960s; in 1980, he opened Raymond D. Strother, Ltd., in Washington, D.C. Today he is president of Strother, Duffy, Strother, and lives in Washington and Montana. He is a former president of the American Association of Political Consultants, a former fellow of the John F. Kennedy Institute of Politics at Harvard University, a member of the Louisiana State University Journalism Hall of Fame, the recipient of a Pollie Award (2000) for Best Political Television, and the author of the political novel COTTONWOOD. His political memoir, FALLING UP HOW A REDNECK HELPED INVENT POLITICAL CONSULTING, has just been published by Louisiana State University Press; for information: http://www.lsu.edu/lsupress/catalog/Spring2003/books/Strother_Falling_Up.html. Holly Woodward [email protected] was a doctoral fellow for a year at Moscow State University and studied a semester in Saint Petersburg. She serves as an Artist in Education for New Jersey’s schools. One of her stories, “The Captive,” was nominated for a best of the year anthology; it can be read at Three Candles http://www.threecandles.org. Her “Eros and Psyche” appeared in Archipelago, Vol. 4, No. 4 http://www.archipelago.org/vol4-4/woodward.htm. She is working on a novel. ARCHIPELAGO 5 Vol. 7, No. 1 Spring 2003 Contributors &&&&&& News of Our Contributors; Notices Jane Barnes, novelist, scriptwriter, and a director of Archipelago, is among the writers in The Paris Review’s roundtable (Winter 2003) on crime-writing.