Spring 1984

Joyce Van Dyke’s “Inventing Emily Dickinson” Nathan A. Scott’s “Elizabeth Bishop: Poet Without Myth” George C. Herring’s “Some Legacies and Lessons of Vietnam” Sterling J. Kernek’s “Historical Reflections on the Dangers Ahead” Stories by Joyce Van Dyke, Nathan A. Scott, George C. Herring, and Sterling J. Kernek Poetry by Stuart Dybek, Jack Anderson, Marvin Bell, and Robert Morgan
Spring 1984

Volume 60, Number 2

Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 1984 cover
Print: $10.00

Table of contents

Poetry 
POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 1984

The Night Your Dress Lifted

By Stuart Dybek
POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 1984

Sleepers

By Stuart Dybek
 
/ ISSUE: Spring 1984

A Question of Vision

By Susan Mernit
/ ISSUE: Spring 1984

Western Women Are Tough

By Lucinda Hughes
/ ISSUE: Spring 1984

Late Music

By Jack Anderson
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The Green Room, Spring 1984

By Staige D. Blackford
/ ISSUE: Spring 1984

Elizabeth Bishop: Poet Without Myth

By Nathan A. Scott
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Reprint, Spring 1984

/ ISSUE: Spring 1984

Emerson’s Myths of the Fall

By David Robinson
/ ISSUE: Spring 1984

Some Legacies and Lessons of Vietnam

By George C. Herring
/ ISSUE: Spring 1984

Three Letters

By Marvin Bell
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The Skeleton In America’s Closet

By Carl N. Degler
/ ISSUE: Spring 1984

Historical Reflections on the Dangers Ahead

By Sterling J. Kernek
/ ISSUE: Spring 1984

One of the Animals

By Marvin Bell
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An American Tragedy

By Robert Coles
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Who & Where

By Marvin Bell
/ ISSUE: Spring 1984

Feminist Literature: A New Frontier

By Jane Barnes
/ ISSUE: Spring 1984

Sky Gift

By Robert Morgan
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Cookbook, Spring 1984

By Walker and Claudine Cowen
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Dead Dog on the Highway

By Robert Morgan
/ ISSUE: Spring 1984

Barefoot and Pregnant In Des Moines

By W. P. Kinsella
/ ISSUE: Spring 1984

How A Thing Is Made

By Steven Nimtz
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Sympathy Notes

By Gloria Whelan
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The Particulars

By Jack Anderson
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Just Started

By Samuel Pickering
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Notes on Current Books, Spring 1984

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Inventing Emily Dickinson

By Joyce Van Dyke

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