Cover Art: “The Ways of Two” (front) and
“No Desperation” (back) by Bobbie Jansen
(18”x24”, oil on canvas; 16”x20”, oil on canvas)
CALYX, A JOURNAL OF ART AND LITERATURE BY WOMEN
Volume 19 number 2
Summer 2000
TABLE OF CONTENTS
POETRY
Abigail Albrecht 7 The Weaver
Sondra Gash 8 The Women Are Dyeing Indigo
Judy Michaels 10 who can tell how a bowl
Hannah Stein 11 Remade
12 Called Up
Patricia Fargnoli 23 Story Told on the Solstice
Sharilyn Smith 24 The Language of Wood
Susan Settlemyre Williams 25 My Mother’s Beauty
Arlitia Jones 26 1873
Kathleen Aguero 35 Journey with My Sister
Deborah Bacharach 36 The New Joke
Jill Greene 37 Sister
Judith Barrington 65 Blood
66 You There…
Patricia L. Scruggs 67 Alice Plans Ahead
Renée Gregorio 68 The Long Hill of Garrapata
Joan A. Monheit 70 Yahrzeit
Susan Moon 72 Unintended
Samantha Allen Storey 74 My Brother’s Nightmares
76 Museums of Stolen Skin
Kaia Sand 89 The City
Michelle D. Seaman 90 girltown
Marjorie Agosín 99 Questions
100 Strangers
102 Mi Acento/My Accent
Beverly Burch 104 The White Mother
105 It’s Your Body I Miss Now
Monza Naff 106 The Migraine Coloring Book
Pat Cason 107 How a Cartoon Deals with Loss
Robin Boyd 108 Solo
PROSE
Madeleine Schulps 14 April 1945
Marianne Villanueva 30 “The Decedent Is Initially Viewed Unclothed”
J. Alicia Shank 38 Black Belt
Susan Seubert 47 Ten Most Popular Places to Dump a Body in the Columbia River Gorge
Sue Pace 77 The Rash
C. Lill Ahrens 92 The Laundry Quandary
ART
Susan Seubert 49 Crown Point and Benson State Park
50 Mile Marker 25 on the Columbia River Gorge Highway and 1000 Acres
51 Corbett Boat Landing and NE 232nd & Marine Drive
Bobbie Jansen 52 Empty Cage
53 Emerged
Maysey Craddock 54 A Well Devoid Yet Full
55 Tether
56 Drawn Measure
Iggi Green 57 Good Citizen Kitty
58 The Groom
59 Delilah & Pinkie (detail)
Joanna Thomas 60 Snookums (from Valentines)
61 Honey (from Valentines)
Donna E. Dodson 62 Pegasus
63 Heifer Head
Nancy Azara 64 Passages: Blood Panel and Azara & Barrington Hands
BOOK REVIEWS
Aimee LaBrie 109 Body and Field by Terry Blackhawk
Holly Hunt 110 Beautiful Obstacles by Diane Averill
Kristin Becker 112 And Her Soul Out of Nothing by Olena Kalytiak Davis
Margaret Chula 113 Beyond/Within: A Collection of Rengay by Carol Conti-Entin, et al.
Rebecca Seiferle 115 Ordinary Words by Ruth Stone
117 Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson’s Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson edited by Ellen Louise Hart & Martha Nell Smith
Marlene Lee 118 Anais Nin and the Remaking of Self: Gender, Modernism, and Narrative Identify by Diane Richard-Allerdyce
Eleanor J. Bader 119 Apples from the Desert by Savyon Lliebrecht
Marianna Wright 121 How to Accommodate Men by Marilyn Krysl
Jo-Ann Reid 122 Tempest Rising by Diane McKinney-Whetstone
Roberta Gordenstein 123 Doña Inés vs. Oblivion by Ana Teresa Torres
Bettina Heinz 125 Representing Women by Linda Nochlin
Eugenie G. Wheeler 127 Dutiful Daughters: Caring for Our Parents as They Grow Old edited by Jean Gould
Suzanne Kamata 128 Modern Girls, Shining Stars, The Skies of Tokyo: Five Japanese Women by Phyllis Birnbaum
IN MEMORIAM
130 Susan Spady
CONTRIBUTORS’ NOTES
138
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