Spring 2009
Volume 85, Number 2
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Editor's Desk
- Ted Genoways — The Sword of Damocles
VQR Portfolio
- Jason Anthony — The Heartless Immensity
- Ted Conover — Slipping from Shangri-La
- Tipper Gore — Bishop Glacier
- Carolyn Kormann and Krystian Bielatowicz — Last Days of the Glacier
- Paul Reyes — One Shot Fells a Thousand Tons; Or, The Iceman’s Tale
Dispatch
- William Finnegan and Landon Nordeman — Barren’s End
- Dimiter Kenarov and Greg Antrim Kelly — The Mask of Sanity: On the Trail of a Serial Killer in Macedonia
Essay
- Pat Joseph — The Ass’s Dilemma: Can Man Engineer the Climate?
- Eric G. Wilson — The Most Dangerous Hobby in the World: Film Collecting in the Digital Age
VQR Gallery
- Chris Ware — Jordan W. Lint, Installment #4
- Lawrence Weschler — Double Vision: The Art of Trevor and Ryan Oakes
Fiction
- Jessica Francis Kane — The Inquiry
- Kent Nelson — The Spirit Bird
Poetry
- Old Man Throwing a Ball
- Elizabeth Bradfield — Polar Explorer Adrien de Gerlache, First to Winter Below the Antarctic Circle (1898)
- Rita Dove — Paris, Panting, What Doesn’t Happen, Black Billy Waters, at His Pitch, Pretty Boy, Floating Requiem, and Nomadia
- Eamon Grennan — Water, Curlew, Snipe
- Jim Harrison — The Golden Window
- Walter Jost — All Mystery Mine and Promise of Snow
- Sara Pennington — Girl, Frozen
- Kevin Prufer — Night Watch
- R. T. Smith — Storm Warning
- Stefi Weisburd — Self-Portrait as a Hand Weeding
- Anne Pierson Wiese — The Radio Tells Us It’s Snowing in Montauk
Book Reviews
- Book Notes
- Blake Bailey — Between the House and the Chicken Yard
- Oscar Villalon — Real Americans
VQR Vault
- Andrew Shelden — H. L. Mencken’s “The South Astir” and Katherine Anne Porter in VQR
