Autumn 1987

Samuel Pickering’s “Ink Blots” Richard O’Mara’s “Recollections of a Nomad” William Howard Adams’s “The Virginians and the Veneto” George Watson’s “The Doubting of Skepticism” Stories by Samuel Pickering, Richard O’Mara, William Howard Adams, and George Watson Poetry by Mary Oliver, Paulette Roeske, Thomas Lux, and Kelly Rowe
Autumn 1987

Volume 63, Number 4

Virginia Quarterly Review, Autumn 1987 cover
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Table of contents

Poetry 
POETRY / ISSUE: Autumn 1987

The Buddha’s Last Instruction

By Mary Oliver
POETRY / ISSUE: Autumn 1987

Vacation

By Linda Pastan
POETRY / ISSUE: Autumn 1987

At Great Point

By Linda Pastan
POETRY / ISSUE: Autumn 1987

The Angel of Death

By Linda Pastan
POETRY / ISSUE: Autumn 1987

The Lilies Break Open Over The Dark Water

By Mary Oliver
 
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A Long Freeze

By Stephen Minot
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Dandelion Fireworks

By Ramón E. Martínez
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London - 1944

By Mary Lee Settle
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The Virginians and the Veneto

By William Howard Adams
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Captain Andy

By Terese Svoboda
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Reprint, Autumn 1987

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The Doubting of Skepticism

By George Watson
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“A Life of the Mind”

By David Robinson
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Spring Cleaning

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Shaping Literary Lives

By Wendy W. Fairey
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Is the United States a School for Central America?

By Glen Caudill Dealy
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Lady of the Lake Country

By Anthony Netboy
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Under Glass

By Paulette Roeske
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The Green Room, Autumn 1987

By Staige D. Blackford
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Aquarium

By Paulette Roeske
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Notes on Current Books, Autumn 1987

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Black Road Over Which Green Trees Grow

By Thomas Lux
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A Puff of Roses

By Joe Taylor
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Voyeur Every Sense

By Thomas Lux
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Ink Blots

By Samuel Pickering
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Looking Back

By Kelly Rowe
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Recollections of a Nomad

By Richard O'Mara
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The Shed

By Kelly Rowe

Contributor Profiles

William Howard Adams

William Howard Adams is an independent scholar and lecturer on Thomas Jefferson and the history of the garden.

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