Spring 2001

Volume 77/2

China Boy by Russell Fraser Farewell to the Farewell Address? by Michael Dunne Mr. Faulkner: Writer-in-Residence by Joseph Blotner Fiction by Marlin Barton, Joann Kobin, Bill Oliver Poetry by Wislawa Szymborska (translated by Joanna Trzeciak), Julianna Baggott, Richard Katrovas, Cynthia Huntington, Linda Pastan

Spring 2001

Volume 77, Number 2

Print: $10.00

Essays

ESSAYS / ISSUE: Spring 2001

Mr. Faulkner: Writer-In-Residence

By Joseph Blotner

Poetry

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2001

The Last Uncle

By Linda Pastan

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2001

Frances and Mary Allen, Sewing Group, Ca. 1900

By Linda Pastan

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2001

A Glass of Cold Water

By Linda Pastan

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2001

No Title Required

By Wislawa Szymborska

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2001

Rubens’ Women

By Wislawa Szymborska

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2001

Under A Certain Little Star

By Wislawa Szymborska

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2001

Water

By Wislawa Szymborska

/ ISSUE: Spring 2001

One Version of Events

By Wislawa Szymborska

/ ISSUE: Spring 2001

Slow Waltz

By Marlin Barton

/ ISSUE: Spring 2001

Carnage In Rural Virginia

By Joan Waugh

/ ISSUE: Spring 2001

Remembrance of Proust Past

By Emile J. Talbot

/ ISSUE: Spring 2001

Farewell to the Farewell Address? or A Discourse of the Permanent and Transient in American Politics

By Michael Dunne

/ ISSUE: Spring 2001

Citizen Hearst

By Martin Ochs

/ ISSUE: Spring 2001

Berlin for Everybody

By Angus Maclean Thuermer

/ ISSUE: Spring 2001

China Boy

By Russell Fraser

/ ISSUE: Spring 2001

Berlin Jewish Pioneers of Modernism

By Edward T. Chase

/ ISSUE: Spring 2001

The Green Room, Spring 2001

By Staige D. Blackford

/ ISSUE: Spring 2001

The Literature of California

By David Wyatt

/ ISSUE: Spring 2001

Notes on Current Books, Spring 2001

/ ISSUE: Spring 2001

My Cousin Attempts Suicide In Gander Hill Prison

By Julianna Baggott

/ ISSUE: Spring 2001

Excursion

By Bill Oliver

/ ISSUE: Spring 2001

My Mother’s National Geographics

By Julianna Baggott

/ ISSUE: Spring 2001

Play It Again, Sam

By George Watson

/ ISSUE: Spring 2001

The Boxers’ Embrace

By Richard Katrovas

/ ISSUE: Spring 2001

Discipline and Will

By Joann Kobin

/ ISSUE: Spring 2001

Rehab

By Richard Katrovas

/ ISSUE: Spring 2001

Race Does Matter

By Robert J. Norrell

/ ISSUE: Spring 2001

Old Love

By Cynthia Huntington

/ ISSUE: Spring 2001

On Making Mirages, Tahitian and Otherwise

By Allan H. Pasco

/ ISSUE: Spring 2001

For Dora Maar

By Cynthia Huntington

/ ISSUE: Spring 2001

Democratizing American Commemorative Monuments

By Michael Kammen

Contributor Profiles

Russell Fraser

Bill Oliver

Bill Oliver is the author of a collection of stories, WOMEN & CHILDREN FIRST (Mid-List, 1998), and a book of interviews (along with Bonnie Lyons), PASSION AND CRAFT: CONVERSATIONS WITH NOTABLE WRITERS (Univ. of Illinois, 1998).

His stories have appeared in VQR (“Companion” and “Excursion”), NEW LETTERS, CAROLINA QUARTERLY, INDIANA REVIEW, THE LAUREL REVIEW, THE FLORIDA REVIEW, CIMARRON REVIEW, and others. He directs the writing center at the Virginia Military Institute and is a regular visiting professor at Washington and Lee University.