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A Sigma Tau Delta Publication 2005 Literary Re view Number 18 TL May 2005 8.[Cb.ography M asu - ass041": •ain .(b) •aw siVav form ijUard n fl: 41LO Ff1 vjdá saivavidas iif1es j'.f1as4 fxá (appearIPce1prQet vt4' es apaad, li-4ikp zdJ' 'wax üojk jeparevi ucztzon) veroiThl, his1teH *ere "Inside Out Image" by Kristin Oase A Sigma Tau Delta Publication 2005 LITERARY REVIEW Number 18 May, 2005 Table of Contents: Foreword by Jessica Stowell and Katie Hunter 5 Newsom Award Winners Poetry: First Place: Butterfly Photograph by Danielle Orner 6 First Place: A Childhood Sacred Space by Danielle Orner 7 First Place: Breakfast by Danielle Orner 8 Second Place: Eating by Shannon Phillips 9 Second Place: For the Penis I Don't Have by Shannon Phillips 10 Second Place: I Couldn't Leave Him by Shannon Phillips 11 Third Place: Capitalist Pilgrimage on Gold Stilettos by Vanessa Giovacchini 12 Third Place: Sing Loud by Vanessa Giovacchini 13 Third Place: Hungry by Vanessa Giovacchini 14 Third Place: Monkey Prayers by Vanessa Giovacchini 15 Poetry: Lady Who Lay by Kaitlyn Collier 16 Hitler's Mustache by Joseph Fontana 17 Eighty One by Rebecca Rehfeld 18 Ode to My Brother by Rebecca Rehfeld 19 White Hallways by Rebecca Rehfeld 20 My Empty Little Heart by Rebecca Rehfeld 21 Stony Ground (a song) by Ashley Young 22 Like a Huntsman by David Lame 23 Worry by Rebecca Lybrand 23 A Tragic Poet by Aaron Jaffe 25 Unprotected by Aaron Jaffe 25 Translation by Justin Goldberg 26 A Piece by Justin Goldberg 27 A night on your couch (resting my head in your lap) by Justin Goldberg 28 Maybe Tomorrow by Russel Der 30 Finally Done by Russel Der 30 Two Broken Windows Intact by Jason Jenkins 30 Phone Calls from the Long Forgotten by Kristin Adolfi 31 Grandpa's Basement by Kristin Adolfi 32 Karma by Jennifer Lang 33 I. Potential by Sarah Razor 34 2 II. Anything Can Breed by Sarah Razor 34 111. And I will give boys to be their princes by Sarah Razor 34 Till the Next Fix by Phoebe Feng 35 After the Showers by Phoebe Feng 35 Perfectly Unique by Phoebe Feng 35 Sand and the Coffer by Kaylee Carrington 36 Version by Kaylee Carrington 37 Love by Cassie Wright 37 Driving Down the 1-5 by Vanessa Giovacchini 38 Lovely Sugar by Vanessa Giovacchini 39 Relations by Eric Mattys 39 Fragmentation by Eric Mattys 40 Newsom Award Winners Fiction: First Place: Ashes to Dreams, Dreams to Ashes by Danielle Orner 42 Second Place Ma Vie en Noire by Katie Hunter 45 Third Place: The Plagiarist by Aaron Jaffe 52 Honorable Mention: At the Wedding by Adam Witten 59 Honorable Mention: The Goblin by Justin Goldberg 65 Fiction: Holding It by Josh Sovell 71 Rest by Josh Sovell 72 Elbow Dimples and Other Factors of Glamour by Cassie Wright 75 Forty Bucks Eric Mattys 79 Nevermore by Adam E. Ekbom 82 Desperate Tactics of a Ten Year Old Chimney Sweep by Katie Hunter 94 Practically Perfect by Jessica Stowell 98 Excerpt From by Greg Bone 100 A Strange Bird by Justin D'Angona 101 Stolen Car by Lindsey Hawkins 103 Freshman Writing Prize: Transforming the Nation With Overalls and Architecture by Julia Tyack 108 Freshman Writing: Analysis of "Daddy" and "Rape" by Rebecca Rehfeld 111 "Next, Please": A Closer Look by Eric Rivera 117 Creating the Dream: A Brotherhood by Sean Kark 1210 3 Scholarly Writing Prize: First Place. Realism, Reform, and the Metropolis by Katie Hunter 124 Second Place: Baby Tuckoo Writes a Journal by Christina Gutierrez 140 Third Place The Musical Language by David Lame 156 Scholarly Writing: The Ascent of Piety by Joshua Bans 168 The Father, The Son, and The Holy Sophia?: The Bridge Between Hebrew Thought in the Old and New Testaments by David Lame 177 Dante: A critical analysis of selected passages from The Divine Comedy by Chris McKeon 185 A Trinity of Images in the Commedia by Christine Hill 194 The First Feminists: Women in the English Epic by Cathy Johnson 198 Tolkien's Leaf by David Lame 203 The Great Enemy: Hemingway's Portrayal of Gertrude Stein by Adam Ekbom 210 It's a Jungle out There: An Argumentative Look at Social and Economic Realism in Upton Sinclair's The Jungle by Josh Lowensohn 215 Oh Hey, Power! Foucault, Discipline, and Hope by Greg Prieto 227 4 Foreword Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, (1 am large, I contain multitudes). Dear Readers, We are happy to present to you the 2005 Literary Review. The best part about the Literary Review this year is the incredible student writing. The second best thing about the Literary Review this year is that it is the 2005 edition, and it was actually put together and produced entirely in the year 2005. Success! It has been our great honor and pleasure to read and compile this volume of impressive work created by our peers. This edition holds special meaning to us because it is an example of the challenging intellectual questions that Whittier College consistently asks of its students. This edition represents the continuation of a Sigma Tau Delta tradition that was briefly interrupted and is thankfully now, once again, a yearly tradition. We want to say thank you to Christine Hill for her assistance in putting this together and going before Publications Board for us. In addition, we would like to thank Kristin Oase for her art, along with Eric Mattys and Cassie Wright for their help choosing all the submissions. And finally, we would like to thank Anne for all of her support, because without her this Publication would not have happened. Not only did she open our home to us but she gave Lis sweet rolls and coffee too! And finally, remember the words of our good friend Walt: Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all. Walt Whitman Sincerely, Jessica Stowell and Katie Hunter 5 Poetry by: Danielle Orner First Place: Newsom Award Butterfly Photograph Outside on the backyard's wooden porch my brother and I snuggle into separate sleeping bags mine orange, his blue wiggling with excitement like giant floppy caterpillars as Mother catches us in the flash and whirr of the camera. Our father stands in the background with a head of thick, black hair and too small college running shorts. He roasts marshmallows on straightened wire hangers over the fluttering flames of a red barbeque. His young, proud smile matching our missing-teeth grins. He is still thinking he can do it build a world of magic to cocoon his children in. The setting sun colors the suburban camp ground making it as fuzzy as a dusty red dream. 6 First Place: Newsom Award A Childhood Sacred Place God came down on a dusty ray of light in the late afternoon, after my homework was done but before Mom called for dinner, when my mind was blank and itching, while falling sun smudged the horizon. I met God beside the tree behind the small, white gazebo where a red plastic swing hung and ferns grew tangled with ivy where the dog liked to nap in the shade. I stood on the flat rocks surrounding the tree that served as gravestones for family pets. I tried to image them, fur, feathers, and scales fading, buried in shoeboxes invaded by roots. I circled the tree with a hand on the trunk for balance. Bending under branches and carefully stepping on each rock, I asked God, as he sat cross-legged on the lawn watching me and twirling a strand of white hair, whether or not He did, in fact, exist. 7 First Place: Newsom Award Breakfast The late-morning sun overpowers the thin blinds and roasts our naked bodies beneath the comforter In a haze I grope for hands, arms and chest finding your body hot and solid careful not to wake you I like the circle of your dark nipple and taste last night's sex on your lips We slept intertwined, stomach pressed to back legs overlapping on the too small bed You're awake and wrestle and wriggle out of twisted sheets and tangled limbs, free you pull on yesterday's jeans and find mugs for tea Laughing, cheeks creased with pillow kisses and pink with warmth I refuse to dress 8 Poetry by: Shannon Phillips Second Place: Newsom Award Eating I've always admired peanut butter For its adhering qualities. And the apple for enduring despite the bad Rap it received as the forbidden fruit. And bananas for preserving their dignity Even after Freud. And the pomegranate for conspiring with Hades to trap Persephone. And tomatoes for maintaining a binary Identity in the Fruit-n-Veggie universe. Berries and grapes also have their virtues Except they often get made into spread, Relinquishing their identity, their form That's about as good as a woman Who melts in a man's arms, Oozing through his fingers, Nothing to grasp, no tangible resistance; No satis 7ing pierce and chomp for the teeth.