Volume 18 • Issue 2 • 1988 • Spring-Summer

Front Matter

Front Matter, The Iowa Review, v.18 no.2, Spring-Summer, 1988

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Contents

Living to Be a Hundred

Robert Boswell

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Pears

Jill Birdsall

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Africa

Ann Patchett

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Loitering with Intent: Let Us Now Consider an Imperfect World Wherein the Skeleton Is Truth the Flesh Conjecture; Tuesday at Nine; Unprovoked Assaults on Old Loves; Hate II: The Sequel; In the Valley of Nagging Doubts; Hill Sketches; Loitering with Intent; Lover, Go Back to Him

Hooper Thorne

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The Flatness

Michael Martone

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Sunday Afternoon at Fulham Palace

Elizabeth Spires

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Syeeda's Song Flute (Coltrane 1959)

Ray Grant

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Identity

Ray Grant

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Flower Talk

Neal Bowers

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Rome

Casey Finch

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The Silent Movie Theater

Laurence Goldstein

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Firmament on High

Laurence Goldstein

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Vandenberg

Gregor Hartmann

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Views

Denny Hoberman

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Garbage

Ron Tanner

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North

Frederick Busch

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Songs of the Body

Bea Opengart

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The Only True History of Lizzy Finn, by Herself

Sebastian Barry

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Fanny Hawke Goes to the Mainland Forever

Sebastian Barry

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ann Struthers

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Cookery: To Truss Small Birds

Lola Haskins

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Fashion: How to Wear the Veil

Lola Haskins

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Repression in the Age of Aquarius

Judith Berke

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Old Woman

Judith Berke

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Visiting Borges

Judith Berke

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Ghazals: [If a Raindrop Enters the Ocean, Good]; [Something Exciting Is Kicking through the Sperm]; D.K., 1932-1986; For Suzanne Vega

Alicia Ostriker

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Letters from Togo

Susan Blake

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A Letter from South Africa

Jeff Probst

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An Interview with Frederick Busch

Frederick Busch and Donald J. Greiner

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Review of "The Musician" by Melissa Greene

Melissa Greene

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Review of "Tomas Transtromer: Selected Poems" by Nance Van Winckel

Nance Van Winckel

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Review of "The Haw Lantern" by Peter Filkins

Peter Filkins

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Back Matter

Notes on contributors and back matter, The Iowa Review, v.18 no.2, Spring - Summer, 1988

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