Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983
Front Matter
Front Matter, The Iowa Review, v.14 no.2, Spring-Summer, 1984
1984-04-01 Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983
Contents
Foreword
Paul Engle and Hualing Nieh Engle
1984-04-01 Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 1–2
On Poetry
Ai Qing and Marilyn Chin
1984-04-01 Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 7–8
My Life as a Chinese Writer
Mrs. Ding Ling, Yeh, Marilyn Chin, Anna Lillios and Kathy Yeh
1984-04-01 Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 9–15
My Friends
Bjorg Vik
1984-04-01 Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 16–19
Where Does the Poet Come From?
Ottó Orbán
1984-04-01 Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 20–25
Tension
Sahar Khalifeh
1984-04-01 Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 26–32
I Strain My Ears
Gozo Yoshimasu
1984-04-01 Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 33–34
Arranging Chaos
Gozo Yoshimasu
1984-04-01 Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 34–35
Lakeside
Gozo Yoshimasu
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Autumn Flowers
Gozo Yoshimasu, Richard Arno and Marilyn Chin
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Snowy Morning
Ai Qing and Marilyn Chin
1984-04-01 Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 41–41
The Ramshackle Car
Xiao Qian
1984-04-01 Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 42–46
The Eye of Night
Wang Meng, Janice Wickeri and Marilyn Chin
1984-04-01 Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 47–56
My Hometown's Base Creatures
Wu Cheng, Marilyn Chin and Jesse Wang
1984-04-01 Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 57–58
The Morning Reading
Wu Cheng, Marilyn Chin and Eunice Chen
1984-04-01 Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 58–59
The Street
Sachiko Yoshihara
1984-04-01 Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 60–60
Woman
Sachiko Yoshihara and John Solt
1984-04-01 Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 60–61
Wandering Was Always an Important Theme in My Lyric
Tetsuo Nakagami
1984-04-01 Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 62–62
I'm Lying on the Bed at a Motel and...
Tetsuo Nakagami and Marilyn Chin
1984-04-01 Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 63–63
For the Desert Island
Tae-ch'ul Shin and Marilyn Chin
1984-04-01 Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 64–64
Bukan
Emha Ainunn Nadjib and Harriet Levin
1984-04-01 Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 65–65
Force of Circumstance
Jose Lacaba
1984-04-01 Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 66–67
The Sacred Passion of St. Joseph
Jose Lacaba
1984-04-01 Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 67–68
King's Orders
Jose Lacaba
1984-04-01 Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 68–68
A Dragon for the Family
Robert Yeo
1984-04-01 Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 69–69
From "A Thai Divine Comedy"
Montri Umavijani
1984-04-01 Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 70–71
Belief
Ashokamitran
1984-04-01 Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 72–80
Homecoming
R. Parthasarathy
1984-04-01 Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 81–83
Poem
Nadia Bishai
1984-04-01 Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 87–87
The Son, the Father and the Donkey
Sabri Moussa, Denys Johnson-Davies and Anna Lillios
1984-04-01 Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 88–91
Benevolence
Sabri Moussa, Elizabeth Bloeger, Vivien Abadir and Anna Lillios
1984-04-01 Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 91–93
The Year of the Zop
Yitzhak Orpaz and Daniel Weissbort
1984-04-01 Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 94–107
Exile
Gideon Telpaz
1984-04-01 Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 108–113
Dedicatory Entry
Anton Shammas
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Goodboy
Anton Shammas
1984-04-01 Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 114–117
Self-Portrait
Abdul-Latif Akel
1984-04-01 Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 118–118
Ghazal
Jonaid and Mary Jane White
1984-04-01 Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 119–119
Poem
Jonaid
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A Period of Darkness
Bessie Head
1984-04-01 Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 123–128
Naphiri
Edison Mpina
1984-04-01 Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 129–129
Arlington
Edison Mpina
1984-04-01 Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 130–130
Kwabenya
Kwabenya
1984-04-01 Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 131–131
From "Song of Lawino"
Okot p'Bitek
1984-04-01 Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 132–134
Tort's Bitter Marriage
Amos Tutuola
1984-04-01 Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 135–142
Images on the Beach
Elsa Cross, Abby Wolf and Eric Walker
1984-04-01 Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 145–146
At the Sources
Tomás Segovia
1984-04-01 Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 147–147
Dawn of Tomorrow
Tomás Segovia and James Irby
1984-04-01 Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 147–148