Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies (formerly Kansas Quarterly)

Volume 31, Number 1 April 2000

Do-Lord Days: Chapter 1 (fiction) ...... 3 by Mars Hill

Soaring (poem) ...... 9 by Gene Kimmet

"A Fine Loud Grabble and Snatch of AAA and WPA": Faulkner, Government, and the Individual ...... 10 by Robert W. H amblin

Adjusting the Apocrypha: The Thirties and Faulkner's Radical Critique of "the Old Plantation" ...... 16 by Charles A. Peek

Ask Not for Whom the Earrings (fiction) ...... 21 by Bonnie Braendlin

"Gilded Gateways to Economic Paradise": The New Deal Rhetoric of Senator Joe T. Robinson ...... 29 by W. Stuart Towns

Road Kill Art (essay) ...... 39 by Niles Reddick

Shotgun House: Southern Vernacular Architecture (photo-essay) ...... 42 by Curtis Steele

Sister's Place (poem) ...... 44 by Dan Glynn

Poems ...... 45 by Kathy Sylwester Winter Wheat October Conversation Summer Christwhite (fiction) ...... 47 by Guy Lancaster

Poems ...... 57 by Patricia Chaffee Migration Delta Flood Alternate Route Camping Solo

Delta Sources and Resources ...... 59 The Delta Symposia by William M. Clements

Reviews...... 62

Williams, Some Jazz A While: Collected Poems, reviewed by Gordon T. Osing Ely, The Angel of the Garden: Stories, reviewed by Catherine Calloway Early, "Ain't But a Place": An Anthology of African American Writings About St. Louis , reviewed by Anne Stavney Sloane, New Directions in American Humor, reviewed by Benjamin F. Fisher Dixon, Fortune and Misery: Sallie Rhett Roman of New Orleans, A Biographical Portrait and Selected Fiction 1891-1920, reviewed by Frances M. Malpezzi McAlexander, Prodigal Daughter: A Biography of Sherwood Bonner, reviewed by Nancy Dixon Adams and Gould, Inside the Natchez Trace Collection: New Sources for Southern History, reviewed by Ted Ownby Morris, Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860, reviewed by Tony A. Freyer Baker, From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896-1954, reviewed by Rosemary Levy Zumwalt Hammon, My Father, Daniel Boone: The Draper Interviews with Nathan Boone; Hurt, Nathan Boone and the American Frontier, reviewed by Larry D. Ball Zall, Lincoln on Lincoln, reviewed by Roger A. Fischer O'Brien, The Color of the Law: Race , Violence, and Justice in the Post-World War II South, reviewed by Glenn Feldman Dickinson and Hitchcock, A Bibliography of Tennessee History, 1973-1996, reviewed by Jeanette Keith Batterson, Blind Boone: Missouri's Ragtime Pioneer, reviewed by Carl Rahkonen Salem, The Late Great Johnny Ace and the Transition from R&B to Rock 'n' Roll, reviewed by Roger Wood Touchet and Bagneris, Rejoice When You Die: The New Orleans Jazz Funerals, reviewed by David C. Estes Greiner, The Reposed, reviewed by Richard E. Meyer Ivey, Prayers in Stone: Christian Science Architecture in the United States 1894-1930, reviewed by Diane O. Tebbetts

Contributors ...... 83