Hollins Critic articles from December 1985

Hollins Critic archives from December 1985

Crisis in the career of James Wright.
December 1, 1985... If I am paraphrasing Despair Is "The Sickness Unto Death" correctly, Kierkegaard argues that the human soul sometimes experiences a crisis in which the self is felt and perceived to be totally unacceptable and totally unchangeable. During this...

Black Branches.(Book Review)
December 1, 1985... Black Branches. By Greg Pape. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. 1984. $12.95. The poem, "In the City of Bogota" begins: The statue of a rich industrialist stands in a small plaza in the city of Bogota. People...

Innocence in Extremis.(Book Review)
December 1, 1985... Innocence in Extremis. By John Hawkes. Providence, R.I.: Burning Deck Press. $8.00 (p.b.) This significant novella ends with the paragraph: "Their return crossing was the worst Atlantic crossing in nineteen years." I stress the word...

Lonesome Dove.(Book Review)
December 1, 1985... Lonesome Dove. By Larry McMurtry. New York: Simon and Schuster. $18.95. Since 1982 Larry McMurtry has published three novels: Cadillac Jack (1982), The Desert Rose (1983), and this year his longest work, Lonesome Dove. Although the two...

Navigable Waterways.(Book Review)
December 1, 1985... Navigable Waterways. By Pamela Alexander. New Haven: Yale. U.P. $12.95 (h.b.), $5.95 (pa.) Pamela Alexander is the winner this year of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, with her first book, Navigable Waterways, chosen by James...