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

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Mark Twain and Sigmund Freud on the Discontents of Civilization

W. R. Irwin

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Homage to the Fox

Andrew Hudgins

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Repentance

Andrew Hudgins

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Judas, Flowering

Andrew Hudgins

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Appeal to the Whirlwind

Andrew Hudgins

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Sophistry on the Well-lit Desk

Lisa Lewis

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From "The Perry Mason Sestinas"

James Cummins

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Dead Man's Float

James Frazee

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The Empty Swimming Pool

James Frazee

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Loretta

J. V. Brummels

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Roulstone Once Removed

Debra Hines

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Treasure Hunt to Find the Handkerchief

Evita Skrande

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The Spoon

Ceci Miller

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McClellan Shoots His Dogs

Ken Poyner

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The Last Afternoon

Ken Poyner

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The State

Ken Poyner

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Heartsick

Douglas Glover

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Lawns

Mona Simpson

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

Marilyn Krysl

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Thermodynamics

Marilyn Krysl

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September, You Remember The Ottoman Empire

Marilyn Krysl

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Gardenias

Mark Doty

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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

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The Woods, Late April

Patricia Sheppard

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Anniversary

Judith Kroll

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Grieving for Hopkins

Richard Katrovas

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The Structure of Sustenance

Pattiann Rogers

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Entomological Research

Pattiann Rogers

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Borges and I

Kenneth Lash

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

Curtis White

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Introduction

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