THE SOUTH CAROLINA REVIEW

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K °\e 30, Number 1 (Fall 1997)

The South Carolina Review, Volume 30, No. 1, Fall 1997 ispublished by Clemson University.®1997 Clemson University. ISSN: 0038-3163

EDITORS:Richard J. Calhoun, Editor Emeritus.Frank Day and Wayne Chapman

ADVISORY BOARDFrederick W. Shilstone, Hallman B. Bryant, G. William Koon,Mark S. Steadman, Sterling Eisiminger, Ronald Moran, DonnaHaisty Winchell, Lucy Rollin, C. Harold Woodell.

MANAGING EDITORPearl Parker.

ASSISTANT TO THE MANAGING EDITORDustin Annan and Amber Lofthouse.

EDITORIAL C O R R E S P O N D E N C E :Managing Editor, The South Carolina Review, Department ofEnglish, Clemson University, Strode Tower, Box 341503,Clemson, SC 29634-1503. Tel. (803) 656-3151; 656-3457.Fax (803) 656-1345.

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Cover illustration by James Everett Kibler, Jr.from Fireside Tales: Stories of the Old Dutch Fork.

C O N T E N T S

ESSAYS

Andrew Low • Forms of Fascism inTarr 52David C. Dougherty •

A Test of Principles, Politics, and Friendship: John Dos Passes, ErnestHemingway, and the Spanish Civil War 65

Ed Piacentino •Backwoods Humor in Upcountry South Carolina: the Case for O.B.Mayer 79

FICTION

Sarah Anne Shope • Transylvania, A Return in Time 3Whitney A. Reitz • Eye Contact 12Peter Donahue* Marta 21R. Huber • The Death of Johnny Reno 36Donald Himmelspach • Nudes 41

POETRY

Levani Wright • Cactus Flower 10Joanne Lowery* Tou Give Me a Story About How Tou Might Die 35Vivian Shipley • Moonshine 50

Fair Haven 51Gale Acuff • Love's Complaint 86Wendy Battin • Old Cat 87Martha Marinara • My Father's Heart 88

The Young Widow Talks to Herself. 88E.M. Schorb • Lost Sketches by Bosch 95EarlColeman • Sarajevo of the Heart 96David Middleton • At the Grave of General Francis T. Nicholls, C.S.A 98GaryDuehr • Circles, Widening. 101Laurie Calhoun • April Image II. 102Jean Esteve • Late August. 102MehdiOuni • Thoughts Through Famine 103

INTERVIEW

Sharon L. Jones • An Interview with Derek Walcott 90

THE SOUTH CAROLINA REVIEW

REVIEWS

James R. Andreas • A "Patronage Playwright" 104FarhadB. Idris • The Raj Before and After 107

CONTRIBUTORS 120