Volume 39 • Issue 1 • 2009 • Spring

Front Matter

Front Matter, The Iowa Review, v.39 no.1, Spring, 2009

    Volume 39 • Issue 1 • 2009 • Spring

    Contents

    Human Rights Index

    • University of Iowa Center for Human Rights

    Volume 39 • Issue 1 • 2009 • Spring • v-vi

    Nonetheless

    • Donald Platt

    Volume 39 • Issue 1 • 2009 • Spring • 1–6

    This Happened

    • Donald Platt

    Volume 39 • Issue 1 • 2009 • Spring • 7–7

    Caviar

    • Boròka Bò

    Volume 39 • Issue 1 • 2009 • Spring • 8–8

    School Boys on White

    • Belle Randall

    Volume 39 • Issue 1 • 2009 • Spring • 9–9

    Less Than a Whisper Poem

    • Pattiann Rogers

    Volume 39 • Issue 1 • 2009 • Spring • 10–11

    Edging Dusk, Ars Poetica

    • Pattiann Rogers

    Volume 39 • Issue 1 • 2009 • Spring • 12–13

    Beach Bunnies

    • Cornelia Nixon

    Volume 39 • Issue 1 • 2009 • Spring • 14–35

    The Book of Failed Descriptions

    • Tod Marshall

    Volume 39 • Issue 1 • 2009 • Spring • 36–40

    Pocket Picking Tips from the Amsterdam Bus Station

    • Bobby Baker

    Volume 39 • Issue 1 • 2009 • Spring • 41–41

    Vets

    • Terese Svoboda

    Volume 39 • Issue 1 • 2009 • Spring • 42–42

    Ghost

    • Mark Irwin

    Volume 39 • Issue 1 • 2009 • Spring • 43–43

    Star Pawn

    • Kristen Keckler

    Volume 39 • Issue 1 • 2009 • Spring • 44–44

    Of Singing

    • Elena Passarello

    Volume 39 • Issue 1 • 2009 • Spring • 45–52

    Cats as Tuna

    • Ron Tanner

    Volume 39 • Issue 1 • 2009 • Spring • 53–55

    Dynamics

    • Albert Goldbarth

    Volume 39 • Issue 1 • 2009 • Spring • 56–56

    What becomes, the song asks

    • Albert Goldbarth

    Volume 39 • Issue 1 • 2009 • Spring • 57–57

    After the Broken Shoulder

    • Albert Goldbarth

    Volume 39 • Issue 1 • 2009 • Spring • 58–58

    The Blank

    • Albert Goldbarth

    Volume 39 • Issue 1 • 2009 • Spring • 59–62

    For the Undeserving

    • Jack Stewart

    Volume 39 • Issue 1 • 2009 • Spring • 63–63

    What Survives a Hurricane is an Heirloom

    • Jack Stewart

    Volume 39 • Issue 1 • 2009 • Spring • 64–64

    My Daughter in the Fruits and Vegetables

    • Megan Sexton

    Volume 39 • Issue 1 • 2009 • Spring • 65–65

    Present Perfect

    • Alexandra Teague

    Volume 39 • Issue 1 • 2009 • Spring • 66–67

    Two Drafts Written After a Fight

    • Alexandra Teague

    Volume 39 • Issue 1 • 2009 • Spring • 68–68

    Shelter

    • Susan Perabo

    Volume 39 • Issue 1 • 2009 • Spring • 69–80

    Severance

    • Hadara Bar-Nadav

    Volume 39 • Issue 1 • 2009 • Spring • 81–82

    Yesterday and Tomorrow

    • Hadara Bar-Nadav

    Volume 39 • Issue 1 • 2009 • Spring • 83–83

    At 18

    • Mike White

    Volume 39 • Issue 1 • 2009 • Spring • 84–84

    Lawrencian

    • Mike White

    Volume 39 • Issue 1 • 2009 • Spring • 85–85

    On No

    • Peter Waldor

    Volume 39 • Issue 1 • 2009 • Spring • 86–86

    A Slender Thread

    • Peter Waldor

    Volume 39 • Issue 1 • 2009 • Spring • 87–87

    Moving Horizontal

    • Sarah Gorham

    Volume 39 • Issue 1 • 2009 • Spring • 88–95

    Whooping

    • Lee Warner Brooks

    Volume 39 • Issue 1 • 2009 • Spring • 96–96

    Contraband—A Novlet

    • Lee Warner Brooks

    Volume 39 • Issue 1 • 2009 • Spring • 97–97

    For Ebele

    • Daniel Johnson

    Volume 39 • Issue 1 • 2009 • Spring • 98–98

    For Simon P─.

    • Frederick Smock

    Volume 39 • Issue 1 • 2009 • Spring • 99–99

    from Alphabets of Desire & Sorrow: A Book of Imaginary Colophons

    • Norman Lock

    Volume 39 • Issue 1 • 2009 • Spring • 100–103

    The Dead

    • Jen McClanaghan

    Volume 39 • Issue 1 • 2009 • Spring • 104–115

    An Account

    • Liz Waldner

    Volume 39 • Issue 1 • 2009 • Spring • 116–116

    Of Doves and Madness

    • Julianne Buchsbaum

    Volume 39 • Issue 1 • 2009 • Spring • 117–117

    Suspended Somewhere in Ether like an Absalom by His Hair

    • Julianne Buchsbaum

    Volume 39 • Issue 1 • 2009 • Spring • 118–118

    Arrow Rock

    • Cecile Goding

    Volume 39 • Issue 1 • 2009 • Spring • 119–119

    The Amazon

    • Cecile Goding

    Volume 39 • Issue 1 • 2009 • Spring • 120–120

    from Museum of Eterna's Novel

    • Macedonio Fernández
    • Margaret Schwartz

    Volume 39 • Issue 1 • 2009 • Spring • 121–126

    Maig

    • D.E. Steward

    Volume 39 • Issue 1 • 2009 • Spring • 127–132

    The Objects of Affection

    • John Bensko

    Volume 39 • Issue 1 • 2009 • Spring • 133–133

    Invisible Handshake

    • G.C. Waldrep

    Volume 39 • Issue 1 • 2009 • Spring • 134–134

    Dove Shadow, Nitrate Star

    • G.C. Waldrep

    Volume 39 • Issue 1 • 2009 • Spring • 135–136

    Poems

    • Zhu Shuzhen
    • Emily Goedde

    Volume 39 • Issue 1 • 2009 • Spring • 137–137