SPRING, 1985 VOL. 17, NO. 2

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The South Carolina ReviewVOLUME 17, NUMBER 2 SPRING, 1985

CONTENTSINTERVIEWS

Two Gentlemen of Chicago: David Mamet and Stuart Gordon, HankNuwer 9

ESSAYSChildren in Contemporary Poetry, James Applewhite. 66Drew Ballinger, As "Sacrificial God" in James Dickey's Deliverance,

John Jolly 102

FICTIONDear Harry, Dear Sylvia, Welch D. Everman 3from Your Servant, Caius, John Zanes 21Three Stories by Stephen Dixon 36Write Soon, Love Dad, Jeffrey Couchman 76The Mills of Death Grind Slowly, Charles Israel 93

POETRYDaniel Boone In New York City March 1979, Ennis Rees 33Two Poems by William A. Aarnes 34Two Poems by Sue Lile Inman 64Gigging Frogs, Paul Ruffin 73Three Poems by Judith Ortiz Cofer 74The State of the Art, Jon Thompson 92Warmer, Martha Collins 109

REVIEWSAn American Processsion by Alfred Kazin, William E. Cain 110Frost: A Literary Life Reconsidered by Wiiliam H. Pritchard,

Richard J. Calhoun , 112Night Hurdling by James Dickey, Ronald Baughman 113Thomas Wolfe by Elizabeth Evans, John Idol 115The Crisis in Criticism: Theory, Literature, and Reform in English

Studiesby William Cain, Frank Day 116

CONTRIBUTORS 118-119