Autumn 1984

Jay Silverman’s “Felix” Richard Jones’s “William Golding: Genius and Sublime Silly-Billy” Robert Schultz’s “Dispersions and Freedom: The Situation of Contemporary Poetry” Norman A. Graebner’s “The Soviet-American Conflict: A Strange Phenomenon” Stories by Jay Silverman, Richard Jones, Robert Schultz, and Norman A. Graebner Poetry by Diane Ackerman, Kim Stafford, Martha Collins, and Sue Owen
Autumn 1984

Volume 60, Number 4

Virginia Quarterly Review, Autumn 1984 cover
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Table of contents

Fiction 
FICTION / ISSUE: Autumn 1984

Infatuated

By Dean Albarelli
Poetry 
POETRY / ISSUE: Autumn 1984

Climbing Out

By Diane Ackerman
POETRY / ISSUE: Autumn 1984

Lindbergh

By Diane Ackerman
 
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The Soviet-American Conflict: A Strange Phenomenon

By Norman A. Graebner
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Playing Dead

By Sue Owen
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Memoirs of Hemingway: the Growth of A Legend

By Jeffrey Meyers
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Fleur-de-lis

By Terese Svoboda
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Reprint, Autumn 1984

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Keep House

By Terese Svoboda
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Brandeis and Democratic Progressivism

By Philip L. Merkel
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Kafka’s Derby

By Jeptha Evans
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The Knot of Contrariety

By Raymond Nelson
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The Green Room, Autumn 1984

By Staige D. Blackford
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Commentary

By Jeptha Evans
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Yeats & Company

By Doris L. Eder
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Notes on Current Books, Autumn 1984

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Back Steps

By Charles Atkinson
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Felix

By Jay Silverman
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Indian Languages

By Kim Stafford
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More Blessed to Receive

By Charles Atkinson
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Saipan the Shoeshine Man

By Charles R. Anderson
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Back Home in the Shopping Center

By Kim Stafford
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William Golding: Genius and Sublime Silly-Billy

By Richard Jones
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Light

By Martha Collins
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Dispersions and Freedom: The Situation of Contemporary Poetry

By Robert Schultz
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Dickinson

By Martha Collins
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Lover

By William Hoffman
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Hatred

By Sue Owen

Contributor Profiles

Kim Stafford

Kim Stafford is the founding director of the Northwest Writing Institute at Lewis & Clark College, where he began teaching in 1979.

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