Volume 40 • Issue 1 • 2010 • Spring

Front Matter


Front Matter, The Iowa Review, v.40 no.1, Spring, 2010

2010-04-01 Volume 40 • Issue 1 • 2010 • Spring

Contents


Editor's Note

Russell Scott Valentino

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Scarce Lit Sea

Elisabeth Benjamin

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Imagined Sons 18: Greek Salad

Carrie Etter

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Winter Grasses

Mary Leader

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Patronymic

Mary Leader

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Lulling

Mary Leader

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What Absence Says

Tom Wayman

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Discovery

Ryan Van Meter

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Hooked

Alison Louise Harney

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A Story From The World

Bob Hicok

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Shorn

Bob Hicok

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Another Iowa Homage

Michael Anania

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A Lowly, Humble Bookworm: A Conversation With Michael Silverblatt

Sarah Fay and Michael Silverblatt

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Dreamscape: Faunce House

Mark Halliday

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Vannius Deposed

Mark Halliday

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The Failure Of Forewarning

Hailey Leithauser

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Paean: Moon

Hailey Leithauser

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Narratives

Brian Swann

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Moth

Brian Swann

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Eureka

Karl Harshbarger

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World War Iii

Fred Muratori

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Scant

Julie Hanson

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Hammock Meteorology

Jim Crenner

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Driving In October, I Burst Into Tears

Jim Crenner

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Purvis: Part One Of Three

Denis Johnson

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Looking Through A Telescope

Shira Dentz

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Red Bird

Whitney Ray

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I Watch Her Ride A Current Around The Deli

John Rybicki

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Monsieur Yeats

John Rybicki

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Poets With History/poets Without History

Matthew Rohrer

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Poem

Matthew Rohrer

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The Smell Of Frying Fish

Matthew Rohrer

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Biographies Of The Immortals

Matthew Rohrer

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The Book Of The Dead Man (conversation)

Marvin Bell

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Slice Of Meat Pie

Sarah Colvert

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Charlton Heston Is God

John T. Price

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Only Waitress At The Truck-stop Who Never Uses The Cash Register

Justin Hyde

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How I Learned

Justin Hyde

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Aldabra Island

Amy Lingafelter

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Guillotine

Amy Lingafelter

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What Would Laura Ingalls Wilder Do

Amy Lingafelter

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Address Of Thanks To The Sponsors And Jury Of The Truman Capote Award For Literary Criticism In Memory Of Newton Arvin (2009)

Geoffrey Hill

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Excerpts From A Work In Progress

Geoffrey Hill

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Black On White: A Found Poem

Todd James Pierce

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In The Event Of Emergency

Amina Gautier

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Beautiful Monotonies

Timothy Liu

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Visitation

David Moolten

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Suv Vs. Bike, Suv Wins

Steve McNutt

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Things You Do With Your Feet

Ben Fountain

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