Summer 2010

Volume 86, Number 3

Though some of the below articles are available in their entirety, many have only an excerpted portion of a few paragraphs. To gain full access to all of the articles, subscribe now—you will receive instant access to every article in this issue.

Every article from 1975-2003 is available publicly, without charge.

Editor's Desk

Ted Genoways — The Voice of the Revolution

Dispatch

Kwame Dawes and Andre Lambertson — Ashes
Anthony Ham — Island in the Sand
Kelly Hearn — A Jungle Tiananmen

Essay

Matt Donovan — Leaving Trinity: Ten Ground-Zero Swerves

VQR Symposium

Kaveh Bassiri — How to Build a Bomb
Forough Farrokhzad and Meetra A. Sofia — After You
Laleh Khadivi and Erika Abrahamian — Inside Iran: Introduction
Shahriar Mandanipour and Sara Khalili — If You Didn’t Kill the Cuckoo Bird
Kamin Mohammadi — Lust, Devotion, & the Binary Code
Fatemeh Shams and Erika Abrahamian — Their Black Imaginings: Letters from an Exiled Wife to Her Imprisoned Husband
Roya Zarrin and Kaveh Bassiri — It Was the End of the Sixth Day and Should I Have Known

VQR Gallery

Chris Ware — Jordan W. Lint, Installment #7

Fiction

William Malatinsky — Uzon

Poetry

Prelude to a Revolution
John Canaday — Richard Feynman at Los Alamos
Temple Cone — Tangofugue, A Rabble of Butterflies, The Rest of Silence, Fear and Trembling, and The Birdcatcher
William Kloefkorn — Late Morning, Almost Noon, Babble, Memory, and Living Without It
Campbell McGrath — Essay on Novels
Idra Novey — As Charged and Memorias do Cárcere
Cecily Parks — Sentinel
Adrienne Rich — Confrontations
Habib Tengour and Marilyn Hacker — This Particular Tartar

Book Reviews

Book Notes
Rayyan Al-Shawaf — The Road to Enlightenment
Jacob Silverman — A Gentle and Angry Instrument: Robert Walser’s Short Fiction
Brendan Wolfe — Odd, Exhausting, and Beautiful