Volume 38 • Issue 1 • 2008 • Spring

Front Matter

Front Matter, The Iowa Review, v.38 no.1, Spring, 2008

    Volume 38 • Issue 1 • 2008 • Spring

    Contents

    Human Rights Index

    • University of Iowa Center for Human Rights

    Volume 38 • Issue 1 • 2008 • Spring • v-vi

    Woman with a Yellow Scarf

    • Mary Ruefle

    Volume 38 • Issue 1 • 2008 • Spring • 1–2

    My Search among the Birds

    • Mary Ruefle

    Volume 38 • Issue 1 • 2008 • Spring • 3–7

    All My Roe

    • Mary Ruefle

    Volume 38 • Issue 1 • 2008 • Spring • 8–8

    Stairs

    • Amy Leach

    Volume 38 • Issue 1 • 2008 • Spring • 9–10

    Alter Ego

    • Amy Leach

    Volume 38 • Issue 1 • 2008 • Spring • 11–12

    The First Time I Met H

    • Maggie McKnight

    Volume 38 • Issue 1 • 2008 • Spring • 13–19

    Very Decent of You

    • Paul Zimmer

    Volume 38 • Issue 1 • 2008 • Spring • 20–28

    Pilgrim

    • Sara London

    Volume 38 • Issue 1 • 2008 • Spring • 29–30

    The Golden Lesson

    • Susan B. A. Somers-Willett

    Volume 38 • Issue 1 • 2008 • Spring • 31–32

    Dandelion

    • Malachi Black

    Volume 38 • Issue 1 • 2008 • Spring • 33–33

    Ivory Tower Boy

    • Wilson Diehl

    Volume 38 • Issue 1 • 2008 • Spring • 34–34

    Pearl

    • Wilson Diehl

    Volume 38 • Issue 1 • 2008 • Spring • 35–35

    Prayer for the Underground Supplicant

    • Karen An-Hwei Lee

    Volume 38 • Issue 1 • 2008 • Spring • 36–36

    Five Villanelles

    • Jim Barnes

    Volume 38 • Issue 1 • 2008 • Spring • 37–41

    [Introduction]

    • Lynne Nugent

    Volume 38 • Issue 1 • 2008 • Spring • 42–42

    Distance Learning Circuit Rider

    • William Ford

    Volume 38 • Issue 1 • 2008 • Spring • 43–44

    The Award

    • Amelia Colwell

    Volume 38 • Issue 1 • 2008 • Spring • 45–45

    The Bedroom

    • April Newman

    Volume 38 • Issue 1 • 2008 • Spring • 46–47

    Rain on a Dead Child

    • Salma Salama

    Volume 38 • Issue 1 • 2008 • Spring • 48–49

    February 15th

    • Claudia Nagy

    Volume 38 • Issue 1 • 2008 • Spring • 50–50

    Paper Sky

    • Abigail Peterson

    Volume 38 • Issue 1 • 2008 • Spring • 50–50

    Harold Jackson Brings My Grandmother Daffodils

    • Justin Hyde

    Volume 38 • Issue 1 • 2008 • Spring • 51–51

    Dry and Yellow

    • Jamey Genna

    Volume 38 • Issue 1 • 2008 • Spring • 52–53

    In the Poet's House

    • Margaret Gibson

    Volume 38 • Issue 1 • 2008 • Spring • 54–54

    Christos and the Tomato

    • Margaret Gibson

    Volume 38 • Issue 1 • 2008 • Spring • 55–56

    Margin

    • Warren Slesinger

    Volume 38 • Issue 1 • 2008 • Spring • 57–57

    Lifeboat

    • Warren Slesinger

    Volume 38 • Issue 1 • 2008 • Spring • 58–58

    Dear City

    • Nicole Cooley

    Volume 38 • Issue 1 • 2008 • Spring • 59–60

    Absence

    • Chard deNiord

    Volume 38 • Issue 1 • 2008 • Spring • 61–61

    Relentless

    • J. D. Robinson

    Volume 38 • Issue 1 • 2008 • Spring • 62–62

    Eddie's Sin

    • J. D. Robinson

    Volume 38 • Issue 1 • 2008 • Spring • 63–63

    Byron in Baghdad

    • Mike Smith

    Volume 38 • Issue 1 • 2008 • Spring • 64–73

    The Dark Art of Description

    • Patricia Hampl

    Volume 38 • Issue 1 • 2008 • Spring • 74–82

    Time and Distance Overcome

    • Eula Biss

    Volume 38 • Issue 1 • 2008 • Spring • 83–89

    A Feeling in Your Head

    • Lance Larsen

    Volume 38 • Issue 1 • 2008 • Spring • 90–94

    Riding the Cassville Ferry

    • Barbara Camillo
    • Victor Camillo

    Volume 38 • Issue 1 • 2008 • Spring • 95–101

    The Literary Miracle

    • William H. Gass

    Volume 38 • Issue 1 • 2008 • Spring • 102–107

    Inordinate Points

    • Eric Pankey

    Volume 38 • Issue 1 • 2008 • Spring • 108–109

    Elegy for the Builder's Wife

    • Nick Courtright

    Volume 38 • Issue 1 • 2008 • Spring • 110–110

    Cantilevered Bedtime Story

    • Deborah Bogen

    Volume 38 • Issue 1 • 2008 • Spring • 111–111

    Prequel

    • Lolita Stewart-White

    Volume 38 • Issue 1 • 2008 • Spring • 112–112

    The Souls of Black Folk

    • Lolita Stewart-White

    Volume 38 • Issue 1 • 2008 • Spring • 113–113

    A Tear for Gauguin

    • Ron de Maris

    Volume 38 • Issue 1 • 2008 • Spring • 114–114

    On the Water

    • Robley Wilson

    Volume 38 • Issue 1 • 2008 • Spring • 115–115

    Finity

    • Patrick Madden

    Volume 38 • Issue 1 • 2008 • Spring • 116–148

    Prayers to Those Who Wait

    • Andrew Kozma

    Volume 38 • Issue 1 • 2008 • Spring • 149–164

    I See Now Where Your Features Come From

    • H. L. Hix

    Volume 38 • Issue 1 • 2008 • Spring • 165–165

    Indigo

    • Robert Dana

    Volume 38 • Issue 1 • 2008 • Spring • 166–166