The Mississippi Quarterly articles from September 2001

The Mississippi Quarterly archives from September 2001

James Murry Faulkner, 1923-2001 remembering Jimmy Faulkner.(includes "Note on texts by John Faulkner")(Obituary)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... I first saw and heard Jimmy Faulkner during the initial summer Faulkner conference at the University of Mississippi in 1974. Jimmy spoke about his uncle to a large assembly of scholars and readers from all parts of the globe as if he were...

Untitled prose sketch.(Short Story)
September 22, 2001... THE SUN SHONE DOWN on the good land. The growing sun. And the mules with their slick sides dark splotched with sweat slid the flashing plow through the good land and laid the good land wide for planting. The old Negroes and the little Negroes...

England, I give this cigarette.(Short Story)
September 22, 2001... THE TOY VILLAGES WITH THEIR TINY PLUMES of smoke slid beneath his wing. The toy villages of England. His compass held a steady course on Southeast. Then green fields gave way to sharp cliffs. The green fields and sharp cliffs of England. Then...

The best laid plans.(Short Story)
September 22, 2001... WOODROW NEVER HAD BEEN THE KIND to take to responsibility. He never had been the kind to work very hard either. In fact his father used to worry him a whole lot trying to get him to help with the work around the farm. For a long time...

Treasure hunt.(Short Story)
September 22, 2001... THE FIRST OF THE TREASURE HUNTERS from town reached Little Chicago about three o'clock in the afternoon. They came in a pickup truck. There were three of them. The truck whirled onto the apron in front of Little Chicago and jerked to a stop....

"Springs Eternal In the Human Breast".(Poem)
September 22, 2001... "Springs Eternal In the Human Breast" Oh, crystal dream beyond the hills' blue haze Neither far nor near but always beyond Who watches endeavor with indifferent grace Who masks off the present with a counterfeit wand ...

"Oh Promise Me".(Poem)
September 22, 2001... "Oh Promise Me" Ah, Fate: Thou unbosomed jade Who promises nothing and forgets so much Whose foster child is a noiseless laugh Whose deepest thought is a cow and calf To some a knave; to some a slut Who...

Night Flight.(Poem)
September 22, 2001... Night Flight `Gainst hollow sky, a star-pierced and dim Three tiny lights, close-grouped, remote, Float past serene on tardy sound. A prayer for them is an empty note

The Rocking Chair Fleet.(Poem)
September 22, 2001... The Rocking Chair Fleet My face has never felt salt spray And bone dry are my feet I am not of the Navy, but Of the rocking chair fleet I sit the weeks and months out in My wooden-bottomed chair With...

Ode To A Pipe.(Poem)
September 22, 2001... Ode To A Pipe When night has come and chores are done And sparks waft up the flue In a worn old chair I sit me down And turn, Old Pipe, to you You take me far from things that are To things as I hoped they'd...

Maturity in American literature.
September 22, 2001... OUR LITERATURE HAS REACHED MATURITY NOW; a finished, full-fruited maturity that stands on a par with the older literature of the older world. Stanley Young, senior editor with Harcourt-Brace, one-time reviewer with the New York Times, and...

Remembering John Faulkner.
September 22, 2001... I. GROWING UP WITH JOHN AND BROTHER WILL was more like growing up as one of the brothers. They didn't discipline me much, just steered me in the right direction, but they were always there if I needed either one of them. They really didn't...

John Faulkner's divided selves.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2001... JOHN WESLEY THOMPSON FAULKNER, III, a younger brother by four years of William Cuthbert Faulkner, wrote and published eight novels and a memoir and painted and exhibited a series of scenes from his native hill country of Mississippi. Like his...

Testing the limits of tragedy: history and ideology in John Faulkner's Dollar Cotton.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2001... FIRST IMPRESSIONS ARE USUALLY TELLING. Such is the case with John Faulkner's 1942 novel, Dollar Cotton, which recounts in epic proportions the rise and fall of Otis Town, a hill farmer turned Mississippi Delta cotton planter. Reviewers were...

Strange trips down lonesome roads: John Faulkner and the development of the backwoods novel.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2001... THE AMERICAN CANON, WHICH MAY BE DEFINED as including a myriad of genres and formats, is a place of mythic landscapes, among them the rugged canyons and buttes of Monument Valley, Utah, the corrupt American city as embodied by Chicago and Los...

John Wesley Thompson Faulkner III: his artistic vision and his "Vanishing South".
September 22, 2001... JOHN FAULKNER'S WRITINGS AND PAINTINGS collectively create a complex view of the hill country of Northern Mississippi. John was keenly aware of the rapid changes caused by technological innovations after World War II. Consequently, he planned a...

Memory believes before knowing remembers: William Faulkner, John Faulkner and My Brother Bill.
September 22, 2001... JOHN FAULKNER BEGAN WRITING MY BROTHER BILL almost immediately after William Faulkner's death on July 6, 1962, and completed the manuscript shortly before his own death in March of the following year. In the aftermath of the funeral, John...

The fraternal fury of the Falkners and the Bundrens.(William Faulkner)(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2001... But we have it on high authority that a maws worst enemies shall be those of his own house and family. (1) TODAY, MOST READERS AND CRITICS CONSIDERS Absalom, Absalom! to be William Faulkner's greatest novel. Indeed, many judge this work,...