Volume 26 • Issue 3 • 1996 • Winter

Front Matter


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

1996-10-01 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 and Barbara Eckstein

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On Criticism

Helen Vendler

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Audenesque

Seamus Heaney

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The Thing about Channels

Jeffrey J. Merrick

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

Ricardo Cortez Cruz

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Promises of Dill Seed

Peter Imsdahl

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Reply without Gazelles

Sandra Meek

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Wild Onions

Robert W. Thomas

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Plymouth

Brian Young

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Good Things Come to Those Who Wait

Noelle Kocot

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Taxidermy

Leslie Walker Williams

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

Eric Miles Williamson

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Sweeper Women

Beth Lee Simon

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The Madonna of the Serpent

Jennifer Atkinson

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Persephone Sets the Record Straight

Shara McCallum

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In the Garden of Banana and Cocoanut Trees

Shara McCallum

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Apple

Shara McCallum

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No Whip, No Velvet

Cal Bedient

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Mother

Beth Roberts

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1963

John Talbot

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The Virgin Jocasta

Paul Stanslaw

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Amos Needs Turning

Paul Stanslaw

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The Cabalist

Paul Stanslaw

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The Heart of Power

John J. Berry

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Ghost Story

Gordon Lish

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Blue Books

Steven Harvey

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Yiddish Pantoum

Rochelle Nameroff

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Disappearance: A Backwards Waltz

Rochelle Nameroff

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The Coroner's Reprieve

Bob Hicok

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Over Coffee

Bob Hicok

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Quesnay's Aspect

Barbara Campbell

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Readerly

John Latta

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What Price Electrolysis

Jan Maulhardt

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Borges Travel

Mark Axelrod

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Verlaine Shoes

Mark Axelrod

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Rembrandt Toothpaste

Mark Axelrod

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Cervantes Institute

Mark Axelrod

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Monet Jewelry

Mark Axelrod

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And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

Andrew Russell

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Place Heaven's Compartment Material Here

Gregory Brooker

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Place "Transition" Winter 1929 Here

Gregory Brooker

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All Souls

K. Reynolds Dixon

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If I Met Philip Johnson

George Swaney

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Chilled

Rich Ives

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His Finger Eaten by a Pig

Rich Ives

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A Man Who Would Be Santa

Tom Walz

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Ruth Stone's Intricate Simplicities

Roger Gilbert

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

Jean Berrett

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

David Hamilton

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