Volume 12 • Issue 2-3 • 1981 • Spring-Summer: Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Writing by Women

Contents

Mouse

  • Laura Jensen

Volume 12 • Issue 2-3 • 1981 • Spring-Summer: Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Writing by Women • 191–191

Whale

  • Laura Jensen

Volume 12 • Issue 2-3 • 1981 • Spring-Summer: Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Writing by Women • 192–193

Problems of Translation: Problems of Language

  • June Jordan

Volume 12 • Issue 2-3 • 1981 • Spring-Summer: Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Writing by Women • 194–197

Abishag

  • Shirley Kaufman

Volume 12 • Issue 2-3 • 1981 • Spring-Summer: Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Writing by Women • 198–199

From "Claims"

  • Shirley Kaufman

Volume 12 • Issue 2-3 • 1981 • Spring-Summer: Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Writing by Women • 200–202

Philosophy in Warm Weather

  • Jane Kenyon

Volume 12 • Issue 2-3 • 1981 • Spring-Summer: Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Writing by Women • 203–203

Briefly It Enters, and Briefly Speaks

  • Jane Kenyon

Volume 12 • Issue 2-3 • 1981 • Spring-Summer: Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Writing by Women • 204–204

The Pond at Dusk

  • Jane Kenyon

Volume 12 • Issue 2-3 • 1981 • Spring-Summer: Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Writing by Women • 205–205

Restaurant

  • Maxine Hong Kingston

Volume 12 • Issue 2-3 • 1981 • Spring-Summer: Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Writing by Women • 206–206

Absorption of Rock

  • Maxine Hong Kingston

Volume 12 • Issue 2-3 • 1981 • Spring-Summer: Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Writing by Women • 207–208

Eager Street

  • Kendra Kopelke

Volume 12 • Issue 2-3 • 1981 • Spring-Summer: Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Writing by Women • 209–210

Leaving My Daughter's House

  • Maxine Kumin

Volume 12 • Issue 2-3 • 1981 • Spring-Summer: Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Writing by Women • 211–212

Upstairs

  • Marlene Leamon

Volume 12 • Issue 2-3 • 1981 • Spring-Summer: Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Writing by Women • 213–214

A Sequence for My Mother

  • Jan Heller Levi

Volume 12 • Issue 2-3 • 1981 • Spring-Summer: Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Writing by Women • 215–219

A Poem for Women in Rage

  • Audre Lorde

Volume 12 • Issue 2-3 • 1981 • Spring-Summer: Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Writing by Women • 220–222

Abortion

  • Audre Lorde

Volume 12 • Issue 2-3 • 1981 • Spring-Summer: Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Writing by Women • 223–231

The River Honey Queen Bess

  • Cynthia Macdonald

Volume 12 • Issue 2-3 • 1981 • Spring-Summer: Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Writing by Women • 232–233

My Familiar Lover

  • Cynthia Macdonald

Volume 12 • Issue 2-3 • 1981 • Spring-Summer: Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Writing by Women • 234–235

On Faith

  • Heather McHugh

Volume 12 • Issue 2-3 • 1981 • Spring-Summer: Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Writing by Women • 236–236

Asthma

  • Lynne McMahon

Volume 12 • Issue 2-3 • 1981 • Spring-Summer: Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Writing by Women • 237–237

Utanikki, August 1978

  • Sandra McPherson

Volume 12 • Issue 2-3 • 1981 • Spring-Summer: Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Writing by Women • 238–239

Afternoon Walk

  • Josephine Miles

Volume 12 • Issue 2-3 • 1981 • Spring-Summer: Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Writing by Women • 240–240

Doing Time

  • Sara Miles

Volume 12 • Issue 2-3 • 1981 • Spring-Summer: Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Writing by Women • 241–242

First Intimation

  • Vassar Miller

Volume 12 • Issue 2-3 • 1981 • Spring-Summer: Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Writing by Women • 243–243

Meditation on Friendship: Getting Lost in the Woods with Deena-Jamesville, NY

  • Judith Minty

Volume 12 • Issue 2-3 • 1981 • Spring-Summer: Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Writing by Women • 244–245

Key West (Triple Ballade with Enjambed Refrain, Plus Envoy)

  • Judith Moffett

Volume 12 • Issue 2-3 • 1981 • Spring-Summer: Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Writing by Women • 246–249

In Mrs. N's Palace

  • Honor Moore

Volume 12 • Issue 2-3 • 1981 • Spring-Summer: Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Writing by Women • 250–251

Stone Soup

  • Lisel Mueller

Volume 12 • Issue 2-3 • 1981 • Spring-Summer: Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Writing by Women • 252–252

Fracture

  • Lisel Mueller

Volume 12 • Issue 2-3 • 1981 • Spring-Summer: Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Writing by Women • 253–253

Fairy Tale

  • Carol Muske

Volume 12 • Issue 2-3 • 1981 • Spring-Summer: Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Writing by Women • 254–254

Even before the Mirror Myra

  • Gerda S. Norvig

Volume 12 • Issue 2-3 • 1981 • Spring-Summer: Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Writing by Women • 255–255

Hand Fantasy

  • Gerda S. Norvig

Volume 12 • Issue 2-3 • 1981 • Spring-Summer: Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Writing by Women • 256–256

Final Anatomy

  • Diana Ó. Hehir

Volume 12 • Issue 2-3 • 1981 • Spring-Summer: Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Writing by Women • 257–257

Pilot Captured by the Japanese, 1942

  • Sharon Olds

Volume 12 • Issue 2-3 • 1981 • Spring-Summer: Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Writing by Women • 258–258

History: 13

  • Sharon Olds

Volume 12 • Issue 2-3 • 1981 • Spring-Summer: Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Writing by Women • 259–259

The Takers

  • Sharon Olds

Volume 12 • Issue 2-3 • 1981 • Spring-Summer: Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Writing by Women • 260–260

The Meal

  • Sharon Olds

Volume 12 • Issue 2-3 • 1981 • Spring-Summer: Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Writing by Women • 261–261

The House of Fecundity

  • Sharon Olds

Volume 12 • Issue 2-3 • 1981 • Spring-Summer: Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Writing by Women • 262–263

Sex without Love

  • Sharon Olds

Volume 12 • Issue 2-3 • 1981 • Spring-Summer: Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Writing by Women • 264–264

The Birthmark

  • Merrill Oliver

Volume 12 • Issue 2-3 • 1981 • Spring-Summer: Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Writing by Women • 265–265

At That Time, or the History of a Joke

  • Grace Paley

Volume 12 • Issue 2-3 • 1981 • Spring-Summer: Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Writing by Women • 266–267

One Blue Flag

  • Linda Pastan

Volume 12 • Issue 2-3 • 1981 • Spring-Summer: Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Writing by Women • 268–268

In the Middle of a Life

  • Linda Pastan

Volume 12 • Issue 2-3 • 1981 • Spring-Summer: Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Writing by Women • 269–270

Spaces of Work

  • Padma Perera

Volume 12 • Issue 2-3 • 1981 • Spring-Summer: Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Writing by Women • 271–277

Homage to Lucille, Dr. Lord-Heinstein

  • Marge Piercy

Volume 12 • Issue 2-3 • 1981 • Spring-Summer: Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Writing by Women • 278–279

Laocoön Is the Name of the Figure

  • Marge Piercy

Volume 12 • Issue 2-3 • 1981 • Spring-Summer: Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Writing by Women • 280–280

Self-Criticism

  • Monica Raymond

Volume 12 • Issue 2-3 • 1981 • Spring-Summer: Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Writing by Women • 281–281

The Thread

  • Monica Raymond

Volume 12 • Issue 2-3 • 1981 • Spring-Summer: Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Writing by Women • 282–285

For Ethel Rosenberg

  • Adrienne Rich

Volume 12 • Issue 2-3 • 1981 • Spring-Summer: Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Writing by Women • 286–290

Mother-in-Law

  • Adrienne Rich

Volume 12 • Issue 2-3 • 1981 • Spring-Summer: Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Writing by Women • 291–292