Volume 27 • Issue 2 • 1997 • Fall

Front Matter

Front Matter, The Iowa Review, v.27 no.2, Summer-Fall, 1997

    Volume 27 • Issue 2 • 1997 • Fall

    Contents

    A ___ with Anne Carson

    • John D'Agata
    • Anne Carson

    Volume 27 • Issue 2 • 1997 • Fall • 1–22

    Chaldaic Oracles 1

    • Anne Carson

    Volume 27 • Issue 2 • 1997 • Fall • 23–24

    Elegies for Little Beings

    • Eugen Ionescu
    • Stavros Deligiorgis

    Volume 27 • Issue 2 • 1997 • Fall • 25–30

    From "Crabcakes"

    • James Alan McPherson

    Volume 27 • Issue 2 • 1997 • Fall • 31–42

    Open Letter to the Secretary of the Swedish Academy

    • Robert Rehder

    Volume 27 • Issue 2 • 1997 • Fall • 43–45

    Betsy Breaks Up

    • Laura Wilder

    Volume 27 • Issue 2 • 1997 • Fall • 46–46

    Self-Portrait in the Oval Office

    • Jeff Mock

    Volume 27 • Issue 2 • 1997 • Fall • 47–48

    Epithalamion for Sarah and Tony

    • Jeff Mock

    Volume 27 • Issue 2 • 1997 • Fall • 48–49

    Hellhound on My Trail

    • Boyd White

    Volume 27 • Issue 2 • 1997 • Fall • 50–50

    Lonesome Road Blues

    • Boyd White

    Volume 27 • Issue 2 • 1997 • Fall • 50–50

    Counting

    • Douglas Goetsch

    Volume 27 • Issue 2 • 1997 • Fall • 51–53

    From "Poems to Seize Sound"

    • S. Anna Stephens

    Volume 27 • Issue 2 • 1997 • Fall • 54–59

    Wormwood

    • Rikki Ducornet

    Volume 27 • Issue 2 • 1997 • Fall • 60–69

    Skipping

    • Diane Williams

    Volume 27 • Issue 2 • 1997 • Fall • 70–70

    A History of the Imagination

    • Norman Lock

    Volume 27 • Issue 2 • 1997 • Fall • 71–75

    Four Poets from the World

    • Carolyn Brown

    Volume 27 • Issue 2 • 1997 • Fall • 76–81

    [Dogs' Breath Steams, Cold Air Catches in Your Throat]

    • Eugenius Ališanka
    • H. L. Hix

    Volume 27 • Issue 2 • 1997 • Fall • 82–82

    Solstice

    • Eugenius Ališanka
    • H. L. Hix

    Volume 27 • Issue 2 • 1997 • Fall • 82–83

    Autumn Apocalypse

    • Eugenius Ališanka
    • H. L. Hix

    Volume 27 • Issue 2 • 1997 • Fall • 83–83

    [Devoted Walls Stood There]

    • Eugenius Ališanka
    • H. L. Hix

    Volume 27 • Issue 2 • 1997 • Fall • 83–83

    Arrow

    • Eugenius Ališanka
    • H. L. Hix

    Volume 27 • Issue 2 • 1997 • Fall • 84–84

    Losing Death

    • Eugenius Ališanka
    • H. L. Hix

    Volume 27 • Issue 2 • 1997 • Fall • 84–84

    Ecoutez

    • Eugenius Ališanka
    • H. L. Hix

    Volume 27 • Issue 2 • 1997 • Fall • 85–85

    Sand Sphinx

    • Eugenius Ališanka
    • H. L. Hix

    Volume 27 • Issue 2 • 1997 • Fall • 85–85

    Pause

    • Eugenius Ališanka
    • H. L. Hix

    Volume 27 • Issue 2 • 1997 • Fall • 86–86

    Peripheral Vision

    • Eugenius Ališanka
    • H. L. Hix

    Volume 27 • Issue 2 • 1997 • Fall • 86–86

    Enchanted Country

    • Eugenius Ališanka
    • H. L. Hix

    Volume 27 • Issue 2 • 1997 • Fall • 87–87

    Tabula Rasa

    • Eugenius Ališanka
    • H. L. Hix

    Volume 27 • Issue 2 • 1997 • Fall • 87–87

    Atlantis

    • Eugenius Ališanka
    • H. L. Hix

    Volume 27 • Issue 2 • 1997 • Fall • 88–88

    Under the Cupola of Snow

    • Eugenius Ališanka
    • H. L. Hix

    Volume 27 • Issue 2 • 1997 • Fall • 88–88

    Crystallography

    • Eugenius Ališanka
    • H. L. Hix

    Volume 27 • Issue 2 • 1997 • Fall • 89–90

    Dialogue in a Cellar

    • Eugenius Ališanka
    • H. L. Hix

    Volume 27 • Issue 2 • 1997 • Fall • 90–91

    Two Thousand Years

    • Eugenius Ališanka
    • H. L. Hix

    Volume 27 • Issue 2 • 1997 • Fall • 91–92

    Civitas Lunae

    • Eugenius Ališanka
    • H. L. Hix

    Volume 27 • Issue 2 • 1997 • Fall • 92–95

    Godspeed

    • Eugenius Ališanka
    • H. L. Hix

    Volume 27 • Issue 2 • 1997 • Fall • 96–96

    Treasure Map with No Spot Marked "X"

    • Ranjit Hoskote

    Volume 27 • Issue 2 • 1997 • Fall • 97–98

    Helical Histories

    • Ranjit Hoskote

    Volume 27 • Issue 2 • 1997 • Fall • 98–99

    Palace

    • Ranjit Hoskote

    Volume 27 • Issue 2 • 1997 • Fall • 100–100

    A Poem for Grandmother

    • Ranjit Hoskote

    Volume 27 • Issue 2 • 1997 • Fall • 101–102

    Group Portrait

    • Ranjit Hoskote

    Volume 27 • Issue 2 • 1997 • Fall • 102–104

    Mother Goddess

    • Ranjit Hoskote

    Volume 27 • Issue 2 • 1997 • Fall • 104–105

    The Last Annal of Alamgir

    • Ranjit Hoskote

    Volume 27 • Issue 2 • 1997 • Fall • 105–110

    Donkey Blues

    • Ambrose Massaquoi

    Volume 27 • Issue 2 • 1997 • Fall • 111–111

    Casanova

    • Ambrose Massaquoi

    Volume 27 • Issue 2 • 1997 • Fall • 112–113

    Titi Bum Boat

    • Ambrose Massaquoi

    Volume 27 • Issue 2 • 1997 • Fall • 112–112

    Titi Bum Boat Is a Towel

    • Ambrose Massaquoi

    Volume 27 • Issue 2 • 1997 • Fall • 113–113

    Freetown from New Englandville

    • Ambrose Massaquoi

    Volume 27 • Issue 2 • 1997 • Fall • 114–114

    Sugar Daddy Dance

    • Ambrose Massaquoi

    Volume 27 • Issue 2 • 1997 • Fall • 114–116

    Complex (Street Talk Recorded)

    • Ambrose Massaquoi

    Volume 27 • Issue 2 • 1997 • Fall • 117–117