CONTENTS
POETRY
1 NICHOLAS MOLBERT He Didn’t So Much Die
9 KELLY DAVIO Immunosuppressive Therapy: IV; The Unreal Woman, Post-Operative; The Unreal Woman Asks You To Put Her Suitcase in the Overhead Compartment
34 ROBERT WRIGLEY It Was in a Meadow
36 ACE BOGGESS But What Are You Celebrating?
51 JANELLE EFFIWATT What Happens Yesterday Getting Lost in Snow
52 SOPHIA GALIFIANAKIS “I love the way you fabricate shit”; White Trash
71 G.C. WALDREP The Expensive Tooth
82 LISA SUMME Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board; Selfie as a Dyke
85 JUAN MORALES Dogma
86 RAYMOND LUCZAK Endlessly in Riverside Cemetery
111 JOSHUA ESCOBAR Orange Roadrunner; Song of Moons
114 KARA KREWER Alice; Lobster
128 ED MADDEN Wedding
142 HEATHER LANIER To the Parent Who Says Her Child’s Disability Isn’t in the Natural Order of Things
144 JOSEPH LANDI Explain Those Little Tricks
FICTION
3 ALIX OHLIN You Never Know
23 GEORGE SINGLETON Everything’s Wild
39 ERIN SWAN You Won’t Be Sorry
57 SADIE HOAGLAND Extra Patriotic
73 SARAH DOMET What My Sister Took
109 JULIO DURÁN A Sign
117 ANDREW SIEGRIST Satellites
131 K.C. VANCE Timshare
147 HENRY GOLDKAMP Love Story
NONFICTION
70 SUSAN TEKULVE Graves at Poor Clare’s Monastery
89 MICHAEL GRIFFITH Death’s Taxicab
155 RICH IVES On the Inability to Make Decisions; On the Day of the Election
INTERVIEW
158 SARAH BLACKMAN Border Crossings: A Conversation with Alix Ohlin
BOOK REVIEWS
164 RON MCFARLAND Resonant Poetics: Geffrey Davis’s Night Angler
168 KATHI WOLFE Dear Body: Kelly Davio’s The Book of the Unreal Woman
172 ANDREW LEMONS Essays in a Emergency: Matthew Vollmer’s Permanent Exhibit
176 NANCY SWANSON Recipe for Southern Gumbo: George Singleton’s Staff Picks
178 AMY BORDERS Holy Fire: Shobha Rao’s Girls Burn Brighter
183 WALT HUNTER Inventing Appalachia: Meredith McCarroll’s Unwhite: Appalachia, Race, and Film
CONTRIBUTORS
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SCR Issue 52.1 includes fiction by Dean Bakopoulos and Emily Collins, along with poetry by Maurice Manning, and Canese Jarboe.
Featuring fiction by Kevin Barry, Amy Stuber, Ron Rash, and Carol Dunbar; poems by Emily Rose Cole, Matthew Guenette, Cade Leebron, and Ray McManus; a special interview with Kevin Barry; and much more!
This number is for George William (Bill) Koon and Frank Louis Day, close friends who were also Clemson’s first two managing editors of The South Carolina Review; may they rest in peace. On August 2, 2017, Frank passed away after a long illness, followed by Bill, on October 3, after a surprisingly short one. The near coincidence recalls the theme of Bill’s address during the journal’s fortieth-anniversary celebration, “Parallel Lives,” as he called it, after a book he liked by Plutarch. Considering their long association as fellow editors, professors, and department heads, the lives of Bill and Frank were in many ways coincident but parallel—their careers ran “along side by side” The South Carolina Review (see 41.1 [Fall 2008]: 3-4).
