Spring 1981

James A. Nathan’s “Zbigscam: U.S. Foreign Policy, 1976-80” Carl N. Degler’s “Rethinking Post-Civil War History” Irby B. Cauthen’s “Shakespearean Tragedy and the Nostalgic Vision” Samuel Pickering’s “The Books I Left Behind” Stories by James A. Nathan, Carl N. Degler, Irby B. Cauthen, and Samuel Pickering Poetry by Albert Goldbarth, Mary Ruefle, Forough Farrokhzad, and Laurie Sheck
Spring 1981

Volume 57, Number 2

Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 1981 cover
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Table of contents

Poetry 
POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 1981

Another Country

By Tom Hansen
 
/ ISSUE: Spring 1981

A Major Biography of A Major (?) Poet

By Townsend Ludington
/ ISSUE: Spring 1981

Handpuppets

By Chris Bursk
/ ISSUE: Spring 1981

Rethinking Post-Civil War History

By Carl N. Degler
/ ISSUE: Spring 1981

A Tract of Sound and Theory

By Leslie W. Dunbar
/ ISSUE: Spring 1981

Sunday Avenue

By Daniel Halpern
/ ISSUE: Spring 1981

Ernestine

By John Bovey
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The Green Room, Spring 1981

By Staige D. Blackford
/ ISSUE: Spring 1981

Night Scene

By Daniel Halpern
/ ISSUE: Spring 1981

Shakespearean Tragedy and the Nostalgic Vision

By Irby B. Cauthen
/ ISSUE: Spring 1981

Notes on Current Books, Spring 1981

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The Murder

By Frederick Morgan
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The Books I Left Behind

By Samuel Pickering
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As When I Did Not Exist

By Mary Ruefle
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Touch

By Brian Swann
/ ISSUE: Spring 1981

Anxieties and Assurances

By Jane McDill Anderson
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From Darkness

By Forough Farrokhzad
/ ISSUE: Spring 1981

Jan. 31st – 31 Yrs.

By Albert Goldbarth
/ ISSUE: Spring 1981

“You Could Look It Up”

By Louis D. Rubin
/ ISSUE: Spring 1981

Leaving: the Poem

By Forough Farrokhzad
/ ISSUE: Spring 1981

Roof & Writing

By Albert Goldbarth
/ ISSUE: Spring 1981

Cookbook, Spring 1981

By Walker and Claudine Cowen
/ ISSUE: Spring 1981

Reprint, Spring 1981

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Two Lights That Failed

By Richard H. King
/ ISSUE: Spring 1981

The Myth of Peace Through Strength

By Bernard P. Kiernan
/ ISSUE: Spring 1981

Now Is the Time for All Good Persons ….

By William C. Havard
/ ISSUE: Spring 1981

Scar

By Laurie Sheck
/ ISSUE: Spring 1981

Zbigscam: U.S. Foreign Policy, 1976-80

By James A. Nathan
/ ISSUE: Spring 1981

Angels and Monsters of Feminist Fiction

By Margaret Miller
/ ISSUE: Spring 1981

KÄThe Kollwitz

By Laurie Sheck
/ ISSUE: Spring 1981

Her Journey Westward

By Lamar Herein

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