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
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On Poetry
Ai Qing and Marilyn Chin
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My Life as a Chinese Writer
Mrs. Ding Ling, Yeh, Marilyn Chin, Anna Lillios and Kathy Yeh
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My Friends
Bjorg Vik
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Where Does the Poet Come From?
Ottó Orbán
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Tension
Sahar Khalifeh
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I Strain My Ears
Gozo Yoshimasu
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Arranging Chaos
Gozo Yoshimasu
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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
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The Ramshackle Car
Xiao Qian
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The Eye of Night
Wang Meng, Janice Wickeri and Marilyn Chin
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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
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The Street
Sachiko Yoshihara
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Woman
Sachiko Yoshihara and John Solt
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Wandering Was Always an Important Theme in My Lyric
Tetsuo Nakagami
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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
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Force of Circumstance
Jose Lacaba
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The Sacred Passion of St. Joseph
Jose Lacaba
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King's Orders
Jose Lacaba
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A Dragon for the Family
Robert Yeo
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From "A Thai Divine Comedy"
Montri Umavijani
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Belief
Ashokamitran .
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Homecoming
R. Parthasarathy
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Poem
Nadia Bishai
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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
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The Year of the Zop
Yitzhak Orpaz and Daniel Weissbort
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Exile
Gideon Telpaz
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Dedicatory Entry
Anton Shammas
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Goodboy
Anton Shammas
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Self-Portrait
Abdul-Latif Akel
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Ghazal
Jonaid . and Mary Jane White
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Poem
Jonaid .
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A Period of Darkness
Bessie Head
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Naphiri
Edison Mpina
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Arlington
Edison Mpina
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Kwabenya
Kwabenya .
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From "Song of Lawino"
Okot p'Bitek
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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
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At the Sources
Tomás Segovia
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Dawn of Tomorrow
Tomás Segovia and James Irby
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