New Mexico Quarterly Volume 18 | Issue 2 Article 1 1948 Full Issue University of New Mexico Press Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/nmq Recommended Citation University of New Mexico Press. "Full Issue." New Mexico Quarterly 18, 2 (1948). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/nmq/vol18/iss2/ 1 This Full Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the University of New Mexico Press at UNM Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in New Mexico Quarterly by an authorized editor of UNM Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. : Full Issue QUARTERLY REVIEW V0LUME XVIII SUMMER, 1948 NUMB.ER2 CONTENTS , Page THE AGONY OF UNAMUNO. Guillermo de Torre (Translated by Ilsa Barea)' 141 SONNETS FOR PIERRE. E. H. Templin . 152 THREE POEMS. Milton Miller . 153 NOTES ON SATIRE IN SWIFT AND JONSON. Edwin Honig. 155 O. Poem. Tea Isaac . 163 UNDER. Poem. Roy Marz . .. 164 DOCTOR CHIMERA. Story. Joaquin Ortega. 165 BRUCE AND ERMENGARDE. Story. George P. Elliott -'. 181 PUBLIC ApPEARANCE. Poem. Byron Vazakas 193 DELILAH. Poem. Harold V. Witt • ~194 THE COYOTE'S NAME IN HUMAN SPEECH. J. Frank Dobie . 195 SONG OF THE MAD MARINE. Poem. Ken Lash .200 Two POEMS. Willard N. Marsh . · 202 THE MAN OF THE HOUSE. Story. Leonard G. Homann. · 20 3 INDIAN DESERT. Poem. Elmer Gorman . · 2 13 Two POEMS. Robert A. Hume . · 214 THE MEETING OF MINDS. Story. A'rthur W. Hamilton. •. 215 PUEBLO SOVEREIGNTY, POSTWAR. Eric T. Hagberg and Robert Bunker · 223 VANISHING EDEN. Poem. Herman Salinger. · 228 CYNIC. Poem. Aaron Kastin ' . · 228 BOOK REVIE\yS · 229 A GUIDE TO THE LITERATURE OF THE SOUTHWEST 25. Lyle Saunders and Frank L. Baird. · 259 Los PAISA!'10S. Julia Keleher · 265 Published by UNM Digital Repository, 1948 1 New Mexico Quarterly, Vol. 18 [1948], Iss. 2, Art. 1 CONTRIBUTORS GUILLERMO DE TORRE, Spanish essayist and literary critic and one of the founders of the Ultraist Movement in Spain, is an editor of the Argentine publi&hing house, E. Losada, in Buenos Aires; his" translator, ILSA BAREA, is the wife of Arturo Barea, whose writings she has translated into English; foreign correspondent and later deputy chief of foreign press censorship in Spain during the Civil War, she has since that time written mainly on subjects of Spanish affairs, history, and literature. EDWIN HONIG, author of an important volume on Garcia Lorca and of poetry and criticism published in various magazines, teaches English at the University of New Mexico. J. FRANK DOBIE, formerly a professor of English at the University of- Texas, is an authority on the early history and folklore of the South· west. ERIc T. HAGBERG is general superintendent of the United Pueblos Agency in Albu· querque,·New Mexico. ROBERT BUNKER, whose novel, Amanda Said the Grass Was Green, was published this year, is stationed at Zuni, New Mexico, as sub-agent in the U. S. In· dian Service. JOAQUIN ORTEGA, for many years Directot of the School of Inter-American Affairs at the University of New Mexico, is author of the essay on Cervantes which appeared in the Winter, 1947, issue of this magazine. GEORGE P. ELLIOTf, writer of poetrY and fiction pub. lished in various magazines, teaches English at St. Mary's College in Berkeley, California. LEoNARD G. HOMANN has published criticism in Contour and in campu~publications; his story in this issue is his first fiction to be published. ARTHUR W. HAMILTON, whose article "Rio Grande Deathwatch" appeared in the Spring number of this magazine, is a free lance writer livinK in Mesilla Park, New Mexico. E.H. TEMPLIN, a professor of Spanish at the University of California at Los Angeles, has had poems in"'Sewanee Review and other magazines. MILTON MILLER i!l a member of the English department at the University of Nevada. TED ISAAC, agradmite student at Columbia University, had poetry recently in The University of Kansas City Review. Roy MARZ teaches at the University of Cincinnati. BYRON VAZAKAS is a well known poet whose work has appeared here previously and in many other magazines. HAROLD V. wrIT, winner of one of the Avery Hopwood awards at the University of Michigan, lives illl California. KEN LAsH teaches English at the University of New Mexico and has published articles in this magazine and in the Journal of Philosophy. WILLARD N. MARSH lives inHollywood, Cali· fomia. ELMER GoRMAN is a captain with the T.W.A. and lives in Los Gatos, California. ROBERT A. HUME is a professor of English at the University of Nevada and has published in The American Scholar, South Atlantic Quarterly, and other journals. IiIERMAN SALINGER, poet, and the translator of Heine's Germany: a Winter's Tale, teaches at Grinnell College. AARON KAsTIN, author of one volume of verse, is a student at the U;'iversity of New Mexico. CALVIN HORN, of Albuquerque, is a member of the New Mexico State Legislature. ROLAND F. DICKEY is author of New Mexico Village Arts, to be pUbli~hed soon by the University of New Mexico Press. LLOYD L6ZES GoFF is an Albuqu~rq*e artist and has .traveled and studied in Mexico and Central, America. CLARISSA P. FULi.ER is a graduate student in history at the University of New Mexico. RUTH SAWTELL WALLIS, novelist and physical anthropolOgist, is co-author with her husband, Wiison D. Wallis, of numerous current studies in anthropology. HUGH MCGOVERN, a student at the University of New Mexico, has published fiction and criticism in a number of magazines. EDITH S. BLESSING, formerly a member of the University of Ne,,? Mexico English department, lives in Albu­ querque. VINCEl\T GAROFFOLO is owner of the Guadalupe Art Gallery in Old Albuquerque, New: Mexico. Other reviewers are of the University of New Mexico's teaching staff. LYLE SAUNDERS' bibliography of Southwestern materials will be comI?iled for the next few issues by FRANK L. BAIRD, a graduate student in the School of InteIi-American Affairs '1 at the University of New Mexico; Mr. Saunders is on temporary leave of absence doing research work at the University of Texas. JULIA KELEHER, whose "Los Paisanos" has been featured in this magazine for many years, and KATHERINE SIMONS, editor of the book section, resigned from, the magazine on July 1 of last year, but at the request of other members of the editor~al staff continued their services thl1?ugh another year's publication~ terminating with th~ issue. For their excellent work, their loyalty and faithfulness, we wish to express our deepest thanks; https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/nmq/vol18/iss2/1 2 : Full Issue .' THE AGONY OF UNAMUNO Guillermo de Torre Translated by Ilsa Barea. HOSE OF US who zealously read and frequently saw Don Miguel de T Unamuno in his last years, watched IUs agony grow with every day: it was agony in the sense of the old Greek term, internal struggle, as Unamuno himself had reinterpreted the Spanish word in his. book La agonia del Cristianismo. In him, everything was transfigured and "heightened into problem and drama. By then, the "paradoxes" of his' earlier years had gone beyond literary mannerism, beyond a method of driving home a point. They 'had become human matter, his daily substance, his essence of being. Unamuno rebelled against the para­ doxical fate which imposed itself on him, but' this rebellion itself was an organic part of his fate. The author of Contra esto y aquello (Against This and That) was born with the need to fight against everything and ~ , everybody, but first and foremost against his ~lf. He wa~ self-centered, with an _extremely developed, sensitive consciousness of his self, his "I," yet ifhe called himself a yoista, an "I-ist" (from yo, "I") , he wanted everybody else to have the same quality. He was convinced that passion is salvation, that we save our souls by passion as much as we destroy ourselves by it. I It has been said of Unamuno that "the stuff of which he is made is antithesis." Indeed, Unaml;ln? used to play with antinomies, though his purpose in doing so was utterly serious. It pleased him to produce antinomies, by upsetting fixed concepts, or by digging into the etymol­ ogical subsoil o~ words, with a tireless philological skill bent on dissoci­ ating jumbled ~eanings. Not for nothing, for him "in the beginning was the word" in the sense of the GosPel, not "action" in the, sense of Goethe's Faust. Yet, when he then proceeded, as he did, to the reduc­ tion of everything to nothing,"to what end did it lead? 141 Published by UNM Digital Repository, 1948 3 New Mexico Quarterly, Vol. 18 [1948], Iss. 2, Art. 1 I.... NEW MEXICO QUARTERLY REVIEW Unamuno's attitude has sometimes b~en defined as nadismo, "nothing-ism." Frequently, his impulse would carry us nowhere; it would leave us suspended on the edge of the metaphysical abyss, from which there was no way out; it would sharpen a thirst in us, which could not be satisfied. In reality, Unamuno's shafts aimed at remot~ targets which later were identified as existentialist. His "philosophy," being something less than philosophy as the professionals understand it, was more: it was an integral, existential philosophy for men of flesh and blood rather than for philosophers. It was a tragic sense of life. But through it, through his very despair, Unamunofound the Ibasis of his undying faith. To put it in his own words, his tragedy *as that "it does not make one believe in another life if one insists on believing in it because one needs it." He exemplified this tragedy in one! of his most revealing short novels, San Manuel Bueno, Mdrtir.