Shawangunk Review State University of New York at New Paltz New Paltz, New York Volume XXVIII Spring 2017 EDITORS Cyrus Mulready H. R. Stoneback GUEST EDITOR for the TWENTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL ENGLISH GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM H. R. Stoneback Cover art: Jason Cring Te Shawangunk Review is the journal of the English Graduate Program at the State University of New York, New Paltz. Te Review publishes the proceedings of the annual English Graduate Symposium and literary articles by graduate students as well as poetry and book reviews by students and faculty. Te 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 correspondence to Shawangunk Review, Department of English, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY 12561. Copyright ©2017 Department of English, SUNY New Paltz. All rights reserved. Contents From the Editors I Introduction 3 Poems, Ballads, Songs: Te 2016 Graduate H. R. Stoneback Symposium II Keynote Addresses and Interviews 13 Jim Rooney: An Interview with Christopher Paolini 21 Music From Home Happy Traum 27 Happy Traum: An Interview with Greg Bruno III Symposium Essays 31 From Ravens to Crows and Riddles Revised: Gregory E. Bruno Degeneration and Refnement in American Folk Ballad Variations 37 I Looked East and West: Examining Mickey D’Addario the Crossroads between Blues Music and Poetry 45 Between the Classroom and the Countryside: Vincent Fino Reviving Folk Ballads and Oral Recitation in Secondary Schools 51 “Bury Me Not on the Known Prairie”: Christopher Paolini (Authentic) Origins, Endings, and Resurrection in the American Cowboy Song 59 Still Walking: Ownership and Originality Alex Pennisi in Folk Songs of the Catskills 65 Whose Side Are You On?—Folksong Daniel J. Pizappi and Solidarity in Appalachian Mining Communities 75 Form and Musicality: Te Poetry Victoria Prashad of Emily Dickinson 83 Irish Swans in Poem, Ballad & Song Colleen Stewart IV Songs from the Symposium 91 Introduction H. R. Stoneback 93 A Little More Fair, A Little More Free Kathy Johnson 94 Way Out West Kathy Johnson 96 Better Tan Lovin’ You Chris Paolini 99 Blue Birdie (Fare Tee Well) Chris Paolini 103 Rabourn’s Store H.R. Stoneback 107 South Jersey Girl H.R. Stoneback 113 Dead End Town Joseph McNulty 114 Here We Stand Joseph McNulty 116 I’ll Be on My Way Alex Pennisi 119 Brass-Bound Alex Pennisi 121 Te Cockeyed Mayor of Kaunakakai: H.R. Stoneback Song & Residential Survey of Moloka‘i V Poetry 127 for Emma Bovary Larry Carr 128 for Andy Warhol Larry Carr 129 Te Geography of Grief Joann K. Deiudicibus 130 Is it Still Tere Joann K. Deiudicibus 132 Black Irish Dennis Doherty 134 Young Ones Dennis Doherty 136 Ode to the Fontans: Let Tem Eat Kek Matthew Nickel 137 On Being Changed Afer Understanding Poetry Matthew Nickel 138 I Need a New Poem Jan Zlotnik Schmidt 140 Walking my Dog in Logan Park, DC Jan Zlotnik Schmidt the Day Afer the Women’s March 141 Halloween in Iran Genaro K`y L´y Smith 144 Tis Is the Place Genaro K`y L´y Smith 146 Zero Visibility: Lana‘i Landing Again— H.R. Stoneback Island Puddle-Jumper Flights 149 Are You the Famous Poet?—A Meditation H.R.Stoneback on the Benefts of Poetry and Poet Discounts 151 Snow Day Pauline Uchmanowicz 152 Passing Time on the Cape Robert Waugh 156 Florida Fall Ed Maietta 157 Te Arc Gregory E. Bruno 158 Te Ride Gregory E. Bruno 159 Mullica River Evan Hulick VI Essays from the Graduate Program 161 Hath Not a Homosexual Eyes?; or, How the James Frauenberger Lack of a Queer Discourse Shields Antonio in Shakespeare’s Te Merchant of Venice 171 Te Representation of the Survival of Children Sam Montagna in Life is Beautiful and Naked Among Wolves 181 Postmodern Nostalgia as Distraction from Kasey Tveit Modern Fears in AMC’s Mad Men VII Book Review 187 Te Internet is Not the Answer, by Andrew Keen Thomas G. Olsen VIII Tesis Abstract 193 “Te Monstrous Revolution: Tragedy Alana Sawchuk and the Feminine” XI News, Notes and Calls for Papers 195 Alumni News and Notes 199 Notes and Calls for Papers X Contributors 201 Contributors From the Editors Volume XXVIII of the Shawangunk Review features the proceedings of the 2016 English Graduate Symposium, “Poems, Ballads, Songs,” directed by Shawangunk Review co-editor H. R. Stoneback. On behalf of the Graduate Program, we want to thank all of the participants (our two keynote speakers/ performers, student presenters, honored guests, featured Hootenanny per- formers and surprise visitors) for making this symposium an extraordinary event. We are especially grateful to Jim Rooney and Happy Traum for their generous permission to publish here for the frst time their interviews and Traum’s essay that presents the core of his keynote performance. And heartfelt thanks to Nancy Johnson, for her encouragement of the conception of this symposium and, as English Department Chair, her enthusiastic support dur- ing the two years of making the program. Te 2018 English Graduate Symposium, on the topic of translation, will be directed by Professor Michelle Woods. Look for a call for papers from Prof. Woods in the fall. Te submission deadline for Volume XXIX of the Review is December 15, 2017. We welcome poetry, book reviews, and critical essays concerning any area of literary studies. Please see submission guidelines on page 199. Students writing a thesis in 2017 (ENG590) are also encouraged to submit an abstract for publication in next year’s volume. In this issue we have restored our News, Notes & Call For Papers. See this section for news of our former graduate students, as well as for CFP information regarding upcoming conferences (e.g., the XVIII International Hemingway Conference in Paris in July 2018; the VI International Imag- ism/EMRS/IRAS Conference in the South of France, immediately following Hemingway in Paris.) We note that international conferences require earlier abstract deadlines and advanced planning; we urge our graduate students (and faculty) to consider participating in these conferences, joining many current and former New Paltz students and faculty who will be in France in July 2018 for these conferences. Special thanks to Joann Deiudicibus and Colleen Stewart for their as- sistance in gathering materials for this volume, and, as always, to Jason Taylor for typesetting and production supervision. Presentations on & Performances of Folksong, Ballads & Poems 1:30 PM: Welcome Remarks & Introduction of Graduate Student Speakers, Poems, Symposium Director H. R. Stoneback Gregory Bruno, Mickey D’Addario, Vincent Fino, Christopher Paolini, Alex Pennisi, Daniel Pizappi, Victoria Prashad & Colleen Stewart ~Musical Interlude by Mystery Guest Performer~ Ballads, 4:10 PM: Featured Performance— Kathy Johnson “From Small Town Girl to Great Big Dreams” ~Keynote Speakers/Performers~ Songs Two Legends of the Folk Music World 4:45 PM: Jim Rooney, “In It for the Long Run: A Musical XXVIII Annual English Odyssey” Graduate Symposium ***Dinner Break @ 5:50 PM*** 6:15 PM: Happy Traum, “Coming of Age in the Greenwich State University of New York Village Folk Revival & the Woodstock Scene (1954-1971)” at New Paltz 7:45 PM till Closing Time: Hootenanny & Sing- Tuesday, April 12, 2016 along Songs & Poems: Hootenanny performers include Greg Bruno, 1:30-9:30PM Joann Deiudicibus, Dennis Doherty, John Langan, Joe College Terrace McNulty, Jes Nickel, Matt Nickel, Chris Paolini, Fiona Paton, Alex Pennisi, Dan Pizappi, Kappa Waugh, Dennis Winter and whoever else signs up, time permitting, before closing songs **Free Admission, Open with Robert Waugh & H. R. Stoneback & chorus of all present to the Public** For information contact SUNY New Paltz English Department or Symposium Director H. R. Stoneback **Sponsored by the Department of English** I Introduction Poems, Ballads, Songs: Te 2016 Graduate Symposium H. R. Stoneback In this issue, Volume XXVIII of Te Shawangunk Review, we present the proceedings of the 28th Annual English Graduate Symposium—“Poems, Bal- lad, Songs,” Tat is, we present as far as mere print can proceed—without the music that flled the air during the eight-hour program at the College Ter- race on April 12, 2016—a record of what transpired during an extravaganza that included a total of 26 listed speakers and singers. And two extraordinary keynote speaker/performers, Jim Rooney and Happy Traum. Both of our key- noters are legendary fgures in the history of American folksong and music, with deep roots in the Urban Folk Revival and vast experience in that arena, a journey that began for both of them in the 1950s. For over 60 years, Rooney and Traum have played key roles in the world of American Folksong—as per- formers, singers, songwriters, record producers, music publishers, writers, editors, and teachers. Te editor of these symposium proceedings considered including in this issue complete bibliographies and discographies that would list the manifold achievements of Rooney and Traum over the past six-and- half decades—but such an inclusion would have made this issue twice as long. Tus I direct readers to their websites: Jim Rooney—www.jimrooneyproduc- tions.com; Happy Traum—www.homespun.com. Te frst keynote presentation, Jim Rooney’s “In It for the Long Run: A Musical Odyssey,” entranced his audience with its seamless interplay of anecdote and performance of songs as he looked back over his long life in American music that began in the early 1950s. Readers may recapture the spirit of Rooney’s keynote by reading his 2014 memoir from the University of Illinois Press In It for the Long Run: A Musical Odyssey. Tat volume amounts to a love letter to Americana, to American roots music, from folk to coun- try, blues to bluegrass, in which Rooney evokes his history as performer and calls the roll of the famous names he has worked with as a Grammy-winning producer and recording engineer—from Iris Dement to Nanci Grifth, John Prine to Townes Van Zandt and many others.