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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7,1974
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‘FACES”
BY BETTY JO CARROLL
BY SAM REAGAN
One of the significant
developments in publishing in
North Carolina in recent years
has been the growing number
of quality literary magazines
on our college campuses. Not
too many years ago the num
ber of such magazines
published in this state could be
counted on the fingers of one
hand. But in a list compiled
last year by the North
Carolina Arts Council there
are more than 40 such
publications, any of them ex
ceptionally good, now being
issued in the state.
One of the best ot tnese
magazines in North Carolina-
and, indeed, in the entire
United States-is the St. An
drews Review, published
twice a year at St. Andrews
Reagan Talks About S.A
College in Laurinbui^. Ronald
H Bayes, writer-in^'esidence
at St. Andrews is the
magazine’s executive editor,
and Malcolm C. Doubles is
managing editor. The two,
however, get assistant from
other faculty and staff mem
bers of the college.
The editors have the faality
of getting first-rate con
tributions not only
own community and state bu
from the country as a whole,
contributions of considerable
value to the scholarly and ar
tistic community. Articles,
stories and poems are not
pedestrian and pedantic but
often highly entertaining.
^e have been reading the
new Fall and Winter issue and
the content is extraor^arily
good. Beginning with Charles
W. Joyner’s “Degradation and
Yankee Imperialism,” and en
ding 136 pages later with a
poem by Grace Gibson of
Laurinburg, we found this St.
Andrews Review an enjoyable
reading experience.
“Beautiful Wreckage, an
essay on the poetry of Bob
Kaufman by Pete Winslow, is
especially good. Of particular
interest is the long ^em,
“King’s Mountain” by Charles
Olson, which is one of the fin
est poetic works ever written
about the American
Revolutionary War. This is
especially timely now when
the country is moving toward
its celebration of its Bicen-.
tennial.
There are several other
good essays and poems, with
. Review
poets represented such as
Charles Edward Eaton, C. P.
Cavafy, Jon-Stephen Fink,
Frederick Candelaria and
Martin Robbins. There are
also four short stories, in
cluding one by Blair P. Turner
of Southern Rnes.
Among many tine poems m
the Review which we liked is
the follovnng, “Reporting,” by
Grace Loving Gibson:
Can you believe me..
Well, I wUl tell you all I
know
But thai I kiiow so little
And usually learn that I’ve
misunderstood.
The accounts I read or hear
or overhear or am told
Contradict or complicate,
always confuse
What is with what could or
should or might be so.
But, you say, not second
hand reports.
Tell me what you know first
hand.
Weren’t you an eye
witness ..
Perhaps. But long ago.
And I did not know what I
was witnessing
Out of the comer of my eye
While trying to think of
something else
Hoping that what I saw was
only some distortion
Or reflection in a broken
glass.
What difference.
It happened.
My scream still hurts my
throat.