Volume 14 • Issue 3 • 1984 • Fall

Front Matter

Front Matter, The Iowa Review, v.14 no.3, Fall, 1984

1984-10-01 Volume 14 • Issue 3 • 1984 • Fall

Contents

Native Trees

W. S. Merwin

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Night above the Avenue

W. S. Merwin

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Mementos

W. S. Merwin

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Sky in September

W. S. Merwin

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In Ireland

Colette Inez

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On Top of a Small Porch

Christine Deavel

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Walking Alone to the Car

Ted Kooser

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England

Casey Finch

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Staying Awake

John Logan

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Returning in Winter

Eric Pankey

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Three Men Walking, Three Brown Silhouettes

Alicia Ostriker

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Gingerbread Heart

Alexander Ristovic and Charles Simic

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Flirting with a Pig

Alexander Ristovic and Charles Simic

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About Death and Other Things

Alexander Ristovic and Charles Simic

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History's Child

Joyce R. Kornblatt

1984-10-01 Volume 14 • Issue 3 • 1984 • Fall • 17–29

Mark Twain and Sigmund Freud on the Discontents of Civilization

W. R. Irwin

1984-10-01 Volume 14 • Issue 3 • 1984 • Fall • 30–47

Homage to the Fox

Andrew Hudgins

1984-10-01 Volume 14 • Issue 3 • 1984 • Fall • 48–48

Repentance

Andrew Hudgins

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Judas, Flowering

Andrew Hudgins

1984-10-01 Volume 14 • Issue 3 • 1984 • Fall • 50–51

Appeal to the Whirlwind

Andrew Hudgins

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Sophistry on the Well-lit Desk

Lisa Lewis

1984-10-01 Volume 14 • Issue 3 • 1984 • Fall • 53–53

From "The Perry Mason Sestinas"

James Cummins

1984-10-01 Volume 14 • Issue 3 • 1984 • Fall • 54–55

Dead Man's Float

James Frazee

1984-10-01 Volume 14 • Issue 3 • 1984 • Fall • 56–56

The Empty Swimming Pool

James Frazee

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Loretta

J. V. Brummels

1984-10-01 Volume 14 • Issue 3 • 1984 • Fall • 58–59

Roulstone Once Removed

Debra Hines

1984-10-01 Volume 14 • Issue 3 • 1984 • Fall • 60–61

Treasure Hunt to Find the Handkerchief

Evita Skrande

1984-10-01 Volume 14 • Issue 3 • 1984 • Fall • 62–63

The Spoon

Ceci Miller

1984-10-01 Volume 14 • Issue 3 • 1984 • Fall • 64–65

McClellan Shoots His Dogs

Ken Poyner

1984-10-01 Volume 14 • Issue 3 • 1984 • Fall • 66–66

The Last Afternoon

Ken Poyner

1984-10-01 Volume 14 • Issue 3 • 1984 • Fall • 67–67

The State

Ken Poyner

1984-10-01 Volume 14 • Issue 3 • 1984 • Fall • 68–69

Heartsick

Douglas Glover

1984-10-01 Volume 14 • Issue 3 • 1984 • Fall • 70–79

Lawns

Mona Simpson

1984-10-01 Volume 14 • Issue 3 • 1984 • Fall • 80–98

Sestina: People's Republic of China, the Foreign Woman Laments the Revolution's Failure to Accomodate Love

Marilyn Krysl

1984-10-01 Volume 14 • Issue 3 • 1984 • Fall • 99–100

Thermodynamics

Marilyn Krysl

1984-10-01 Volume 14 • Issue 3 • 1984 • Fall • 101–101

September, You Remember The Ottoman Empire

Marilyn Krysl

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Gardenias

Mark Doty

1984-10-01 Volume 14 • Issue 3 • 1984 • Fall • 103–104

Poem for Recuperation

Ilene Moskin

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The Gloves

Emily Chalmers

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Girl on a Scaffold

Carol Frost

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Love Letter, with Static Interference from Einstein's Brain

Joyce Carol Oates

1984-10-01 Volume 14 • Issue 3 • 1984 • Fall • 111–114

The Woods, Late April

Patricia Sheppard

1984-10-01 Volume 14 • Issue 3 • 1984 • Fall • 115–115

Anniversary

Judith Kroll

1984-10-01 Volume 14 • Issue 3 • 1984 • Fall • 116–116

Grieving for Hopkins

Richard Katrovas

1984-10-01 Volume 14 • Issue 3 • 1984 • Fall • 117–117

The Structure of Sustenance

Pattiann Rogers

1984-10-01 Volume 14 • Issue 3 • 1984 • Fall • 118–119

Entomological Research

Pattiann Rogers

1984-10-01 Volume 14 • Issue 3 • 1984 • Fall • 120–120

Borges and I

Kenneth Lash

1984-10-01 Volume 14 • Issue 3 • 1984 • Fall • 121–127

Italo Calvino and What's Next: The Literature of Monstrous Possibility

Curtis White

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Introduction

1984-10-01 Volume 14 • Issue 3 • 1984 • Fall • 140–141