Spring 2008
Volume 84, Number 2
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Editor's Desk
- Ted Genoways — Look, Up in the Sky!
Dispatch
- Kwame Dawes and Joshua Cogan — Learning to Speak: The New Age of HIV/AIDS in the Other Jamaica
- Matthew Power — Charlie Don't Surf
Essay
- William Logan — Forward into the Past: Reading the New Critics
- Glen Retief — The Jack Bank
- Jon Schneider — Ezra Pound: Foreign Correspondent
- Bill Sizemore — The Christian with Four Aces
VQR Gallery
- Geoffrey Hayes — Rory’s Story
- Rosamond Purcell — The Stories of Strangers: Mexican Ex-Voto Paintings
- Chris Ware — Jordan W. Lint, Installment #2
- Lawrence Weschler — Embeddedness: Robert Irwin in His Seventies
Fiction
- Tom Bissell — My Interview with the Avenger
- George Singleton — Man Oh Man—It’s Manna Man
- Scott Snyder — The 13th Egg
- Melanie Rae Thon — Love Song for the Mother of No Children
Poetry
- Michael Bishop — Jamie’s Hair
- Billy Collins — The Great American Poem
- Temple Cone — Hosanna
- Matt Donovan — Psalm and Motel Makeshift Lullaby
- Sara du Sablon — St. James Infirmary
- Ted Kooser — By Starlight, At Dawn, Window Shade, and A Mouse in a Trap
- Linda Pastan — Insomnia
- Jason Schneiderman — Children’s Crusade
- Charles Simic — Dark Is the Night, The Storm, What He Said, and Solitude
- Mary Szybist — I Send News: She Has Survived the Tumor After All
- Charles Wright — As the Train Rolls Through, I Remember an Old Poem, Sundown Blues, Time Is a Child-biting Dog, and The Book
Book Reviews
Humor
- Ross MacDonald — Dead-Eye Comic
