Spring 1999

John Smolens’s “In the Desert” Richard O’Mara’s “The Jesuit Republic of South America” David Kirby’s “What is a Book?” Jeffrey Meyers’s “The Hemingways: An American Tragedy” Stories by John Smolens, Richard O’Mara, David Kirby, and Jeffrey Meyers Poetry by Martha Ostheimer, Nicole Pekarske, Mary Oliver, and Paul Breslin
Spring 1999

Volume 75, Number 2

Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 1999 cover
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Table of contents

Criticism 
CRITICISM / ISSUE: Spring 1999

The Brothers Mann

By Cecil C. H. Cullander
Poetry 
POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 1999

Three Prose Poems

By Mary Oliver
POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 1999

The Dead Can’t Dance

By Nicole Pekarske
 
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Psalm 104

By Brooks Haxton
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Numbers

By James D. Redwood
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Immigrants

By Nance Van Winckel
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The Business of Love

By Daphne Eva Kalotay
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Diplomacy

By Nance Van Winckel
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The Birthday

By Susan Jane Gilman
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Like Me

By Marc Straus
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The Jesuit Republic of South America

By Richard O'Mara
/ ISSUE: Spring 1999

Sirens

By Martha Ostheimer
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Repetition

By Marc Straus
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What is a Book?

By David Kirby
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Intermissa, Venus

By Nicole Pekarske
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November Sunday

By Martha Ostheimer
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The Hemingways: An American Tragedy

By Jeffrey Meyers
/ ISSUE: Spring 1999

Early Canvas

By Nicole Pekarske
/ ISSUE: Spring 1999

Notes on Current Books, Spring 1999

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The Swannanoa Review

By Neil D. Isaacs
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Reprint, Spring 1999

/ ISSUE: Spring 1999

Race In America, Or Where Liberalism Went Wrong

By Sanford Pinsker
/ ISSUE: Spring 1999

Hills Like White Hills

By W. D. Wetherell
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The Wounds

By Paul Breslin
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The Green Room, Spring 1999

By Staige D. Blackford
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The Southern Way of Religion

By John B. Boles
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This Fog

By Alan Feldman
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Obsession and Calamity

By George Core
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The Southern Racial Conversion Narrative: Larry L. King and Pat Watters

By Fred Hobson
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On Brattle Street

By Alan Feldman
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In the Desert

By John Smolens

Contributor Profiles

David Kirby

David Kirby is the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at Florida State University.

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