Volume 40 • Issue 1 • 2010 • Spring

Front Matter

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

    Volume 40 • Issue 1 • 2010 • Spring

    Contents

    Editor's Note

    • Russell Scott Valentino

    Volume 40 • Issue 1 • 2010 • Spring • 1–2

    Scarce Lit Sea

    • Elisabeth Benjamin

    Volume 40 • Issue 1 • 2010 • Spring • 3–11

    Imagined Sons 18: Greek Salad

    • Carrie Etter

    Volume 40 • Issue 1 • 2010 • Spring • 12–12

    Winter Grasses

    • Mary Leader

    Volume 40 • Issue 1 • 2010 • Spring • 13–13

    Patronymic

    • Mary Leader

    Volume 40 • Issue 1 • 2010 • Spring • 14–17

    Lulling

    • Mary Leader

    Volume 40 • Issue 1 • 2010 • Spring • 18–19

    What Absence Says

    • Tom Wayman

    Volume 40 • Issue 1 • 2010 • Spring • 20–21

    Discovery

    • Ryan Van Meter

    Volume 40 • Issue 1 • 2010 • Spring • 22–26

    Hooked

    • Alison Louise Harney

    Volume 40 • Issue 1 • 2010 • Spring • 27–27

    A Story From The World

    • Bob Hicok

    Volume 40 • Issue 1 • 2010 • Spring • 28–28

    Shorn

    • Bob Hicok

    Volume 40 • Issue 1 • 2010 • Spring • 29–30

    Another Iowa Homage

    • Michael Anania

    Volume 40 • Issue 1 • 2010 • Spring • 31–32

    A Lowly, Humble Bookworm: A Conversation With Michael Silverblatt

    • Sarah Fay
    • Michael Silverblatt

    Volume 40 • Issue 1 • 2010 • Spring • 33–42

    Dreamscape: Faunce House

    • Mark Halliday

    Volume 40 • Issue 1 • 2010 • Spring • 43–45

    Vannius Deposed

    • Mark Halliday

    Volume 40 • Issue 1 • 2010 • Spring • 46–46

    The Failure Of Forewarning

    • Hailey Leithauser

    Volume 40 • Issue 1 • 2010 • Spring • 47–48

    Paean: Moon

    • Hailey Leithauser

    Volume 40 • Issue 1 • 2010 • Spring • 49–49

    Narratives

    • Brian Swann

    Volume 40 • Issue 1 • 2010 • Spring • 50–51

    Moth

    • Brian Swann

    Volume 40 • Issue 1 • 2010 • Spring • 52–52

    Eureka

    • Karl Harshbarger

    Volume 40 • Issue 1 • 2010 • Spring • 53–77

    World War Iii

    • Fred Muratori

    Volume 40 • Issue 1 • 2010 • Spring • 78–78

    Scant

    • Julie Hanson

    Volume 40 • Issue 1 • 2010 • Spring • 79–79

    Hammock Meteorology

    • Jim Crenner

    Volume 40 • Issue 1 • 2010 • Spring • 80–80

    Driving In October, I Burst Into Tears

    • Jim Crenner

    Volume 40 • Issue 1 • 2010 • Spring • 81–82

    Purvis: Part One Of Three

    • Denis Johnson

    Volume 40 • Issue 1 • 2010 • Spring • 83–118

    Looking Through A Telescope

    • Shira Dentz

    Volume 40 • Issue 1 • 2010 • Spring • 119–122

    Red Bird

    • Whitney Ray

    Volume 40 • Issue 1 • 2010 • Spring • 123–132

    I Watch Her Ride A Current Around The Deli

    • John Rybicki

    Volume 40 • Issue 1 • 2010 • Spring • 133–133

    Monsieur Yeats

    • John Rybicki

    Volume 40 • Issue 1 • 2010 • Spring • 134–134

    Poets With History/poets Without History

    • Matthew Rohrer

    Volume 40 • Issue 1 • 2010 • Spring • 135–136

    Poem

    • Matthew Rohrer

    Volume 40 • Issue 1 • 2010 • Spring • 137–137

    The Smell Of Frying Fish

    • Matthew Rohrer

    Volume 40 • Issue 1 • 2010 • Spring • 138–138

    Biographies Of The Immortals

    • Matthew Rohrer

    Volume 40 • Issue 1 • 2010 • Spring • 139–139

    The Book Of The Dead Man (conversation)

    • Marvin Bell

    Volume 40 • Issue 1 • 2010 • Spring • 140–142

    Slice Of Meat Pie

    • Sarah Colvert

    Volume 40 • Issue 1 • 2010 • Spring • 143–155

    Charlton Heston Is God

    • John T. Price

    Volume 40 • Issue 1 • 2010 • Spring • 156–174

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

    • Justin Hyde

    Volume 40 • Issue 1 • 2010 • Spring • 175–177

    How I Learned

    • Justin Hyde

    Volume 40 • Issue 1 • 2010 • Spring • 178–180

    Aldabra Island

    • Amy Lingafelter

    Volume 40 • Issue 1 • 2010 • Spring • 181–182

    Guillotine

    • Amy Lingafelter

    Volume 40 • Issue 1 • 2010 • Spring • 183–184

    What Would Laura Ingalls Wilder Do

    • Amy Lingafelter

    Volume 40 • Issue 1 • 2010 • Spring • 185–185

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

    • Geoffrey Hill

    Volume 40 • Issue 1 • 2010 • Spring • 186–190

    Excerpts From A Work In Progress

    • Geoffrey Hill

    Volume 40 • Issue 1 • 2010 • Spring • 191–193

    Black On White: A Found Poem

    • Todd James Pierce

    Volume 40 • Issue 1 • 2010 • Spring • 194–195

    In The Event Of Emergency

    • Amina Gautier

    Volume 40 • Issue 1 • 2010 • Spring • 196–203

    Beautiful Monotonies

    • Timothy Liu

    Volume 40 • Issue 1 • 2010 • Spring • 204–204

    Visitation

    • David Moolten

    Volume 40 • Issue 1 • 2010 • Spring • 205–205

    Suv Vs. Bike, Suv Wins

    • Steve McNutt

    Volume 40 • Issue 1 • 2010 • Spring • 206–216

    Things You Do With Your Feet

    • Ben Fountain

    Volume 40 • Issue 1 • 2010 • Spring • 217–231