Issue Seven
Abstract: Issue 7, the “Why Don’t We Dance?” Special Feature, is a study in interdisciplinary, ekphrastic scholarly explorations between literature and dance, both by Sophie Bocquet of the Pied de Biche Dance Company in Paris, and by Bocquet and Claire Fabre-Clark, Associate Editor of The Raymond Carver Review, at Université Paris-Est-Créteil, in France. A video of Bocquet’s La Vie Est Une Fête, On Dirait (Life Is a Party, So They Say) is accompanied both by Fabre-Clark’s essay tracing the historical connections in France between choreography and literature and by an interview with Bocquet and Fabre-Clare, conducted by Robert Miltner, Editor for The Raymond Carver Review. As a follow up to Sandra Lee Kleppe’s essay, “Raymond Carver and Biography,” which accompanied an excerpt from James Carver’s Raymond Carver Remembered by His Brother James, Issue 7 includes a lengthy interview of James Carver, conducted by Kleppe of The Raymond Carver Review Advisory Board. The issue concludes with two peer-reviewed essays. The first, “Beyond ‘Errand’: Raymond Carver and the Art of Homage” by Rob Davidson of California State University, Chico, considers Carver’s homages to his mentors,who include John Cheever, Czeslaw Milosz, and Anton Chekhov, the last two who shaped Carver’s A New Path to the Waterfall. The second, “In this too, she was right”: Alcoholic Acceptance in ‘Gazebo’” by David McCracken of Coker University who, through a background frame related to alcohol addiction and recovery, Carver biography and testimony, and Carver’s previous stories about alcoholism, offers an analysis of the important gazebo signification through an application of Jacques Lacan’s theory concerning need, demand, and desire.
