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Winter 2008 Issue

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Editor's Desk

VQR Portfolio

Essay

  • Roberto Bolaño — The Corridor with No Apparent Exit
  • Jane Hirshfield — Justice: Four Windows
  • Floyd Skloot — When the Clock Stops
  • Marcela Valdes — His Stupid Heart

VQR Symposium

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VQR Gallery

Fiction

  • Drew Johnson — The Last Dead
  • Alejandro Zambra and Carolina De Robertis — Bonsai

Poetry

  • Oliver de la Paz — Nocturne with a Dictator
  • Albert Goldbarth — The Poppy Fields of Afghanistan
  • Garrett Hongo — Kubota Writes to José Arcadio Buendía
  • Adam Kirsch — After the rabbi's game repeating back and The Gothic silhouette and flying spire
  • Patricia Lockwood — I. Or, the Anchorite Who is Dying By Degrees, II. Or, the Confessor Who Greens the Garden, and III. Or, the Illuminator Who Reads to Islanders
  • William Logan — Dante's Folly
  • Elisabeth Murawski — Dirge
  • D.A. Powell — continental divide
  • Jacques Prévert and Norman Shapiro — Family Scene and The Sledgehammer Argument of General Massu
  • Lisa Russ Spaar — Empty Nest
  • Craig Morgan Teicher — The Prisoner, The First Fire, and Raised by Wolves
  • Stefi Weisburd — José Sanchez's First Week in the Cell
  • George Witte — The Blister

Book Reviews

Humor