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archipelago An International Journal of Literature, the Arts, and Opinion www.archipelago.org Vol. 6, Nos. 3 & 4 Winter 2003 Journalism: ROBERT FISK The Keys of Palestine, from PITY THE NATION A New Series: Living with Guns MARY-SHERMAN WILLIS, The Fight for Kansas MARILYN A. JOHNSON, Why They Shot Us A Garland of Poets CAROLYN HEMBREE, Until Anne’s Shadow's on the Curtain PATRICIA CONNOLLY, Five Poems CHRISTIAN McEWEN, A Winter Alphabet KATHRYN RANTALA, The Finnish Orchestra Essay: ROBERT CASTLE From Desperation to Salvation: On Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Letter from Bhutan: RORY McEWEN to Ron Padgett The Curator’s Eye: VERNA POSEVER CURTIS Three Photographers: Halverson, Klett, Burtynsky Endnotes: KATHERINE McNAMARA A Year in Washington Recommended Reading: George Garrett on Madison Jones Letters to the Editor: The Election Printed from our Download (pdf) Edition archipelago An International Journal of Literature, the Arts, and Opinion www.archipelago.org Vol. 6, Nos. 3 & 4 Winter 2003 The Keys of Palestine Robert Fisk 14 Living With Guns Introduction 46 The Fight for Kansas / Mary-Sherman Willis 47 Why They Shot Us / Marilyn A. Johnson 69 A Garland of Poets Carolyn Hembree 72 Patricia Connolly 73 Christian McEwen 78 Kathryn Rantala 80 From Desperation to Salvation: On Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Robert Castle 86 Letter from Bhutan Rory McEwen 95 The Curator’s Eye: on Halverson, Klett, Burtynsky Verna Posever Curtis 103 Endnotes: A Year in Washington Katherine McNamara 109 Recommended Reading: George Garrett on Madison Jones 128 Letters to the Editor: On the Election 6 Masthead 3 Contributors 3 Support Archipelago 135 ARCHIPELAGO 2 Vol. 6, Nos. 3 and 4, Winter 2003 Masthead/Contributors archipelago 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 Odile Hellier <[email protected]> Katharine Meyer <[email protected]> Arthur Molella <[email protected]> Editorial Staff Carol Merica, Caroline James 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: The Keys of Palestine ©copyright Robert Fisk, 1990, 2002 From PITY THE NATION, The Abduction of Palestine (Thunder’s Mouth Press/Nation Books 2002 (pb) www.nationbooks.org/book.mhtmPt+fisk) With permission of the Author and Nation Books. / Rory McEwen, Letter to Ron Padgett ©2002 Estate of RoryMcEwen, with the kind permission of Romana von Hofmannsthal McEwen. / “On the Surface Landscape. Under It the Human Element,” ©2002 Library of Congress. / “FOREST OF THE NIGHT: A Declaration of Independence” ©2002 George Garrett. From SOUTHERN EXCURSIONS: Views on Southern Letters in My Time (Louisiana State University Press http://www.lsu.edu/lsupress/index.html, April 2003), with permission. &&&&&& Contributors Robert Castle [email protected] teaches History and Film Criticism at a small academy outside Trenton. His articles have appeared in Bright Lights Film Journal, The Journal of Religion and Film, Metaphilm, Talking Pictures, Film Comment, UnderCurrent, and 24 Frames Per Second. He writes a monthly feature column, “A Sardine on Vacation,” for Unlikely Stories. Patricia Connolly [email protected] was born in London; she has lived in New York City for many years. Her poems have been published in First Intensity, Babel, American Writing, Salthill, Denver Quarterly, International Poetry Review, 13th Moon; and upcoming issues of Poetry Now and Raintown Review. ARCHIPELAGO 3 Vol. 6, Nos. 3 and 4, Winter 2003 Contributors Verna Posever Curtis [email protected] is a curator of photography in the Prints & Photographs Division at the Library of Congress, where she oversees the collections of art photography. She writes and lectures on American art photographers at the turn of the nineteenth century. She is co-author of AMBASSADORS OF PROGRESS, AMERICAN WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS IN PARIS, 1900-1901 (Giverny: Musée d’art Américain in cooperation with the Library of Congress, 2001); co-author of F. HOLLAND DAY, (Amsterdam: Van Gogh Museum, 2000); and co-editor of F. HOLLAND DAY, SELECTED TEXTS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY (World Photographers Reference Series, Vol. 8, Oxford: Clio Press and New York: GK Hall & Co., 1995). Robert Fisk is Middle East Correspondent of the London paper The Independent. He is based in Beirut, where he has lived for twenty-six years and from where he covered the civil war and two Israeli invasions. Educated in Britain and Ireland, he holds the Ph.D. in Political Science from Trinity College, Dublin. He has been the recipient of twenty-four awards in journalism for his reporting of the Iranian revolution and wars in Lebanon, the Gulf, Kosovo, and Algeria. He won the 2000 Amnesty International award for his reports from Serbia on NATO’s bombardment of Yugoslavia and received the 2001 David Watt Memorial Award for his reporting from the Middle East. His articles for the Independent are at http://www.independent.co.uk/search.jsp?keywords=robert%20Fisk&field=byline. George Garrett is the author of books of poetry, essays, short stories, and novels, including DEATH OF THE FOX; ENTERED FROM THE SUN; THE SUCCESSION; DO, LORD, REMEMBER ME; THE KING OF BABYLON SHALL NOT COME AGAINST YOU ; WHISTLING IN THE DARK, et alia. He is Henry Hoynes Professor of Creative Writing, Emeritus, at the University of Virginia, and has been Chancellor of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He spoke to Archipelago about publishing in Vol. 3, No. 2 http://www.archipelago.org/vol3-2/garrett.htm. His SOUTHERN EXCURSIONS: Views on Southern Letters in My Time, is due out in April 2003. George Garrett is the Poet Laureate of Virginia. Born and raised in Bristol, Tennessee, Carolyn Hembree [email protected] has poems published or forthcoming in antennae, The Cream City Review, CutBank, Faultline, Forklift Ohio, jubilat, and Puerto del Sol. Poetry Daily http://www.poems.com/jubilhem.htm featured one of her poems. “Until Anne’s Shadow’s on the Curtain Round Her Bed” is from her first book-length manuscript, FEVER RIBBONS. She has an M.F.A from the University of Arizona and currently teaches at the University of New Orleans. Marilyn A. Johnson’s [email protected] poems appear in the current issues of Field and Open City. She grew up in Chardon, Ohio, and now makes her home in Briarcliff, New York. Christian McEwen [email protected] was born in London, and grew up in the Borders of Scotland. She is the editor of four books, including JO’S GIRLS: TOMBOY TALES OF HIGH ADVENTURE (Beacon Press, 1997) and (with Mark Statman) THE ALPHABET OF THE TREES: A GUIDE TO NATURE WRITING (Poets & Writers, 2002). Her long poem, “September 11th,” received the Quadrangle Award for Poetry from the Springfield Museums and Library Association, and was read at memorial events in New York, Massachusetts, and California. She is the author of “‘Music Hiding in the Air’: A Memoir of Rory McEwen,” Archipelago, Vol. 4, No. 3 http://www.archipelago.org/vol4-3/mcewen.htm, and is currently gathering material for “The Rory Stories Book,” a composite biography of her uncle, the painter, Rory McEwen. She lives in Guilford, Vt. A letter from Rory McEwen to Ron Padgett appears in this issue. Kathryn Rantala [email protected] has work forthcoming in The Iowa Review, Drunken Boat, Linnean Street, and 3rd Bed, among others. Recent credits include The Notre Dame Review, Field, failbetter, Crowd, The Adirondack Review, The Oregon Review (“Don’t Say If I Love You”), Best of Melic Review, Raven Chronicles. Her book MISSING PIECES (Ocean View Press) follows a chapbook, THE DARK MAN, by some years. She is the founder and co-editor of Snow Monkey, An Eclectic Journal http://www.ravennapress.com/snowmonkey/. Mary-Sherman Willis [email protected] is a writer living in Washington, D.C., at work on a family memoir. Her poems appeared in Archipelago, Vol. 6, No. 2 http://www.archipelago.org/vol6-2/willis.htm. &&&&&& ARCHIPELAGO 4 Vol. 6, Nos. 3 and 4, Winter 2003 Contributors News of Our Contributors Odile Hellier, owner of the Village Voice Bookshop, Paris (named the best literary bookshop in Europe by The Bookseller), regularly e-mails announcements of readings and other events at the VV. The shop is at 6, rue Princesse, off the rue du Four, in the Sixth Arrondisement; tel: (011331) 46-33-36-47, fax: (011331) 46- 33-27-48. Métro: Mabillon or St. Germain. Readers can subscribe by writing to [email protected]. Archipelago spoke with her in Vol. 4, No. 1 http://www.archipelago.org/vol4-1/odile.htm. DANCING EMBERS, by Sandor Kányádi, the Transylvanian Hungarian poet has been brought out in Prague by Twisted Spoon http://www.twistedspoon.com/, publisher of Central European writers in English translation.