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It’s for his novel “Lost City Radio,” originally excerpted in VQR’s pages.

VQR announces the winner of our Young Reviewers Contest.

Another VQR writer honored for his reporting.

Hayden Carruth, a frequent contributor to VQR, passed away at 87.

Or so we must assume.

Do you hear       as if
in a far away room
down a narrow hall
in another part of the hotel

Coming home with the last load I ride standing
on the tongue of the trailer, behind the tractor
in its hot exhaust, lank with sweat

This black sedan lies on its top
on the kitchen window sill, its wheels
in the air, its battery drained,
the oil trickling into the cylinders.