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Volume 26 • Issue 3 • 1996 • Winter

Front Matter


Front Matter, The Iowa Review, v.26 no.3, Fall, 1996

    Volume 26 • Issue 3 • 1996 • Winter

    Contents


    A Conversation about Kwame Anthony Appiah's "In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture"

    • Mahoumbah Klobah
    • Mawuena Logan
    • Dean Makuluni
    • Cherry Muhanji
    • Theresa Riffe
    • Barbara Eckstein

    Volume 26 • Issue 3 • 1996 • Winter • 1–26

    On Criticism

    • Helen Vendler

    Volume 26 • Issue 3 • 1996 • Winter • 27–30

    Audenesque

    • Seamus Heaney

    Volume 26 • Issue 3 • 1996 • Winter • 31–33

    The Thing about Channels

    • Jeffrey J. Merrick

    Volume 26 • Issue 3 • 1996 • Winter • 34–50

    Welcome to the Ghetto, Black Spectacle from the Most Avant-Garde

    • Ricardo Cortez Cruz

    Volume 26 • Issue 3 • 1996 • Winter • 51–61

    Promises of Dill Seed

    • Peter Imsdahl

    Volume 26 • Issue 3 • 1996 • Winter • 62–62

    Reply without Gazelles

    • Sandra Meek

    Volume 26 • Issue 3 • 1996 • Winter • 63–64

    Wild Onions

    • Robert W. Thomas

    Volume 26 • Issue 3 • 1996 • Winter • 65–65

    Plymouth

    • Brian Young

    Volume 26 • Issue 3 • 1996 • Winter • 66–66

    Good Things Come to Those Who Wait

    • Noelle Kocot

    Volume 26 • Issue 3 • 1996 • Winter • 67–68

    Taxidermy

    • Leslie Walker Williams

    Volume 26 • Issue 3 • 1996 • Winter • 69–85

    Hope, among Other Vices and Virtues: Charity: Envy: Lust: Wrath: Sloth: Justice: Prudence: Gluttony: Temperance: Pride: Faith: Avarice: Fortitude: Hope

    • Eric Miles Williamson

    Volume 26 • Issue 3 • 1996 • Winter • 86–92

    Sweeper Women

    • Beth Lee Simon

    Volume 26 • Issue 3 • 1996 • Winter • 93–101

    The Madonna of the Serpent

    • Jennifer Atkinson

    Volume 26 • Issue 3 • 1996 • Winter • 102–103

    Persephone Sets the Record Straight

    • Shara McCallum

    Volume 26 • Issue 3 • 1996 • Winter • 104–105

    In the Garden of Banana and Cocoanut Trees

    • Shara McCallum

    Volume 26 • Issue 3 • 1996 • Winter • 105–106

    Apple

    • Shara McCallum

    Volume 26 • Issue 3 • 1996 • Winter • 106–106

    No Whip, No Velvet

    • Cal Bedient

    Volume 26 • Issue 3 • 1996 • Winter • 107–108

    Mother

    • Beth Roberts

    Volume 26 • Issue 3 • 1996 • Winter • 109–109

    1963

    • John Talbot

    Volume 26 • Issue 3 • 1996 • Winter • 110–110

    The Virgin Jocasta

    • Paul Stanslaw

    Volume 26 • Issue 3 • 1996 • Winter • 111–112

    Amos Needs Turning

    • Paul Stanslaw

    Volume 26 • Issue 3 • 1996 • Winter • 112–113

    The Cabalist

    • Paul Stanslaw

    Volume 26 • Issue 3 • 1996 • Winter • 113–113

    The Heart of Power

    • John J. Berry

    Volume 26 • Issue 3 • 1996 • Winter • 114–125

    Ghost Story

    • Gordon Lish

    Volume 26 • Issue 3 • 1996 • Winter • 126–126

    Blue Books

    • Steven Harvey

    Volume 26 • Issue 3 • 1996 • Winter • 127–134

    Yiddish Pantoum

    • Rochelle Nameroff

    Volume 26 • Issue 3 • 1996 • Winter • 135–135

    Disappearance: A Backwards Waltz

    • Rochelle Nameroff

    Volume 26 • Issue 3 • 1996 • Winter • 136–136

    The Coroner's Reprieve

    • Bob Hicok

    Volume 26 • Issue 3 • 1996 • Winter • 137–138

    Over Coffee

    • Bob Hicok

    Volume 26 • Issue 3 • 1996 • Winter • 139–140

    Quesnay's Aspect

    • Barbara Campbell

    Volume 26 • Issue 3 • 1996 • Winter • 141–142

    Readerly

    • John Latta

    Volume 26 • Issue 3 • 1996 • Winter • 143–144

    What Price Electrolysis

    • Jan Maulhardt

    Volume 26 • Issue 3 • 1996 • Winter • 145–156

    Borges Travel

    • Mark Axelrod

    Volume 26 • Issue 3 • 1996 • Winter • 157–158

    Verlaine Shoes

    • Mark Axelrod

    Volume 26 • Issue 3 • 1996 • Winter • 158–159

    Rembrandt Toothpaste

    • Mark Axelrod

    Volume 26 • Issue 3 • 1996 • Winter • 160–161

    Cervantes Institute

    • Mark Axelrod

    Volume 26 • Issue 3 • 1996 • Winter • 161–162

    Monet Jewelry

    • Mark Axelrod

    Volume 26 • Issue 3 • 1996 • Winter • 163–165

    And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

    • Andrew Russell

    Volume 26 • Issue 3 • 1996 • Winter • 166–167

    Place Heaven's Compartment Material Here

    • Gregory Brooker

    Volume 26 • Issue 3 • 1996 • Winter • 168–168

    Place "Transition" Winter 1929 Here

    • Gregory Brooker

    Volume 26 • Issue 3 • 1996 • Winter • 169–169

    All Souls

    • K. Reynolds Dixon

    Volume 26 • Issue 3 • 1996 • Winter • 170–170

    If I Met Philip Johnson

    • George Swaney

    Volume 26 • Issue 3 • 1996 • Winter • 171–171

    Chilled

    • Rich Ives

    Volume 26 • Issue 3 • 1996 • Winter • 172–172

    His Finger Eaten by a Pig

    • Rich Ives

    Volume 26 • Issue 3 • 1996 • Winter • 173–173

    A Man Who Would Be Santa

    • Tom Walz

    Volume 26 • Issue 3 • 1996 • Winter • 174–178

    Ruth Stone's Intricate Simplicities

    • Roger Gilbert

    Volume 26 • Issue 3 • 1996 • Winter • 179–193

    In This Parched Land, Lunacy and Love: A Review of "Khamsin", by Moshe Dor

    • Jean Berrett

    Volume 26 • Issue 3 • 1996 • Winter • 194–200

    On "Can You Hear, Bird", by John Ashbery

    • David Hamilton

    Volume 26 • Issue 3 • 1996 • Winter • 201–203