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

    Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983

    Contents

    Foreword

    • Paul Engle
    • Hualing Nieh Engle

    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
    • Marilyn Chin

    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
    • Kathy Yeh

    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

    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

    Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 20–25

    Tension

    • Sahar Khalifeh

    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

    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

    Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 34–35

    Lakeside

    • Gozo Yoshimasu

    Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 35–36

    Autumn Flowers

    • Gozo Yoshimasu
    • Richard Arno
    • Marilyn Chin

    Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 36–37

    Snowy Morning

    • Ai Qing
    • Marilyn Chin

    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

    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
    • Marilyn Chin

    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
    • Jesse Wang

    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
    • Eunice Chen

    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

    Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 60–60

    Woman

    • Sachiko Yoshihara
    • John Solt

    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

    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
    • Marilyn Chin

    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
    • Marilyn Chin

    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
    • Harriet Levin

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 70–71

    Belief

    • Ashokamitran

    Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 72–80

    Homecoming

    • R. Parthasarathy

    Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 81–83

    Poem

    • Nadia Bishai

    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
    • Anna Lillios

    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
    • Anna Lillios

    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
    • Daniel Weissbort

    Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 94–107

    Exile

    • Gideon Telpaz

    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

    Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 114–114

    Goodboy

    • Anton Shammas

    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

    Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 118–118

    Ghazal

    • Jonaid
    • Mary Jane White

    Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 119–119

    Poem

    • Jonaid

    Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 120–120

    A Period of Darkness

    • Bessie Head

    Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 123–128

    Naphiri

    • Edison Mpina

    Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 129–129

    Arlington

    • Edison Mpina

    Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 130–130

    Kwabenya

    • Kwabenya

    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

    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

    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
    • Eric Walker

    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

    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
    • James Irby

    Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 147–148

    Interludio Idilico: Coda

    • Tomás Segovia

    Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 148–148

    Canciones sin Su Música

    • Tomás Segovia
    • Nathaniel Tarn

    Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1984 • Spring-Summer: Writing From the World: Selections from the International Writing Program 1977-1983 • 149–149