Fiction
… that they had. Some talked shit about me in Navajo or Acoma or Zuni. Others stared at me flatly when I was wasting … you didn’t need to be a genius to do it. They just needed bodies, lots of bodies, and they went through them fast. I … of booze and cigarettes, and his long hair came to greasy points that shot out the back of his hard hat, bobbing …
Poetry
… Tete A Tete When a man dies, an unknown world passes away . St. Exupery, Wind, Sand …
… heads in admiration. I have always associated Bishop, who died in 1979, the year I graduated from high school, with the coral pink cover of The Complete Poems and the hazy outline of the windmills and … work. The discussion of the poems in this last collection points out Bishop’s various permutations of the idea of loss …
Criticism
… sexual misconduct, their alleged indiscretions having been committed in the same bed in which Dame Helen Cumming … not believe that two middle-class, Christian, Scottish ladies would engage in sexual activity with each other. They … in Patna in the service of the East Indian Company. At 26 George Cumming died in India, whereupon his mother …
Fiction
… a hug. Ten years she’d worked in Freely’s General before becoming Krafton’s first and only law officer. It’d been … for Christmas supper? Marilyn said you might.” Helen studied the front window. Jocey Dempsy’s photo was in all the … a game where they rolled dice and moved tiny farm animals around a board. The adults sat around a long table, …
Editor's Desk
… by the “Global South” in the 21st century as the region becomes a key participant in the U.S. economy’s move toward … and Director of the University Center for International Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He … matters should be addressed to The Managing Editor. Website: http://www.vqronline.org/ EDITORIAL OFFICES: ONE …