Adam & Eve (49 page)
Authors: Sena Jeter Naslund
Because
Adam & Eve
looks at beginnings and re-beginnings, I am remembering my own early stirrings as a writer. This novel is dedicated to the memory of James Michael Callaghan, student of philosophy, to whom I was married during most of my graduate school days in the Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa. Michael encouraged my writing at every turn and believed in me as a writer and thinker; he also contributed to my education in literature, philosophy, music, political theory, and psychology. I am grateful for his support and that of his family, his parents, the late Dr. Nathan R. Callaghan and Helen Wolverton Callaghan, and his sister Kay Callaghan, my friend to this day.
I also wish to honor the memory of several other individuals. My love of literature and the critical analysis of it were affirmed and quickened by F. Dwight Isbell, as was my love of thought by Janice Kirkpatrick Entrekin, when I was an undergraduate student at Birmingham-Southern College. BSC professors, now deceased, who opened my mind, include Dean Cecil Abernethy, Dr. Leon Driskell, and Professor Richebourg Gaillard MacWilliams. Were it not for the influence of Leslie Moss Ainsworth, my beloved teacher of English and adviser to
The Mirror
of Phillips High School, Birmingham, Alabama, I would probably not have become a writer and teacher of writing and literature.
—Sena Jeter Naslund
Long Shadows, Huntsville, Alabama
January 2010
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ASLUND
Abundance, A Novel of Marie Antoinette
Four Spirits
Ahab’s Wife or, The Star-Gazer
The Disobedience of Water
The Animal Way to Love
Sherlock in Love
Ice Skating at the North Pole
Move him into the sun—
Gently its touch awoke him once,
At home, whispering of fields unsown.
Always it woke him, even in France,
Until this morning and this snow.
If anything might rouse him now
The kind old sun will know.
Think how it wakes the seeds—
Woke, once, the clays of a cold star.
Are limbs so dear-achieved, are sides
Full-nerved,—still warm,—too hard to stir?
Was it for this the clay grew tall?
—O what made fatuous sunbeams toil
To break earth’s sleep at all?
—Wilfred Owen
This book is a work of fiction. References to real people, events, establishments, organizations, or locales are intended only to provide a sense of authenticity, and are used fictitiously. All other characters, and all incidents and dialogue, are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real.
ADAM
&
EVE.
Copyright © 2010 by Una, Inc.
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EPub Edition © SEPTEMBER 2010 ISBN: 978-0-062-01382-8
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