Spring 2002

Henry Adams at Ground Zero by Sanford Pinsker The Road to September 11 by Jack Fischel The New Deal ‘Constitutional Revolution’ as an Historical Problem by Edward A. Purcell Jr. Making Sense of America by Christopher Clausen Fiction by Kent Nelson, M.C. Allan, Elizabeth Denton, Karl Iagnemma Poetry by Andrew Feld, Renate Wood, Debra Nystrom, Bill Christophersen, Carol Henrie, Charles Harper Webb, Gerry LaFemina, Ali Yuce
Spring 2002

Volume 78, Number 2

Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 2002 cover
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Table of contents

Essays 
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Spring 2002

Mr. Crockett

By Harold H. Kolb
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Spring 2002

The Poetry of Abraham Lincoln

By Bruce Guernsey
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Spring 2002

Making Sense of America

By Christopher Clausen
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Spring 2002

The New Deal “Constitutional Revolution” as an Historical Problem

By Edward A. Purcell
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Spring 2002

The Unchartable Course of the Law

By Lewis Bogaty
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Spring 2002

The Road to September 11

By Jack R. Fischel
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Spring 2002

Henry Adams At Ground Zero

By Sanford Pinsker
Criticism 
CRITICISM / ISSUE: Spring 2002

Arnold “at Full Stretch”

By Richard Jones
CRITICISM / ISSUE: Spring 2002

Newspaper Days

By Robert Mason
CRITICISM / ISSUE: Spring 2002

Notes on Current Books, Spring 2002

CRITICISM / ISSUE: Spring 2002

Bungling National Priorities

By Edward T. Chase
CRITICISM / ISSUE: Spring 2002

Remembering Our Bloodiest War

By Lesley Gordon
CRITICISM / ISSUE: Spring 2002

A Consummate Artist

By Roberta Silman
CRITICISM / ISSUE: Spring 2002

Raise High the Bookshelves, Censors!

By Stephen J. Whitfield
Fiction 
FICTION / ISSUE: Spring 2002

The Ore Miner’s Wife

By Karl Iagnemma
FICTION / ISSUE: Spring 2002

Taco Bell

By Elizabeth Denton
FICTION / ISSUE: Spring 2002

Turtle

By M. C. Allan
FICTION / ISSUE: Spring 2002

The Beautiful Morning of Almost June

By Kent Nelson
Poetry 
POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2002

Then

By Renate Wood
POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2002

Feathers

By Renate Wood
POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2002

The Girl Without Hands

By Debra Nystrom
POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2002

Leukemia

By Debra Nystrom
POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2002

Stillbirth

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2002

Talking In the Dark (When the Rates Go Down)

By Carol Henrie
POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2002

Passing Notes

By Charles Harper Webb
POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2002

The Sound A Body Makes

By Gerry LaFemina
POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2002

Odors [Kokulon]

By Ali Yuce
POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2002

On Fire

By Andrew Feld
POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2002

The Drunk Singer (II)

By Andrew Feld
Editor's Desk 
EDITOR'S DESK / ISSUE: Spring 2002

The Green Room, Spring 2002

By Staige D. Blackford

Contributor Profiles

Sanford Pinsker

Sanford Pinsker is the author and editor of more than a dozen books, including book-length studies of Philip Roth, Cynthia Ozick, Joseph Heller, and J. D. Salinger.

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