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Spring 1985
Wendy W. Fairey’s “In My Mother’s House: Images of a Hollywood Childhood”
Henry Petroski’s “Numeracy and Literacy: The Two Cultures and the Computer Revolution”
Anne Hobson Freeman’s “Hugh”
Monroe K. Spears’s “George Garrett and the Historical Novel”
Stories by Wendy W. Fairey, Henry Petroski, Anne Hobson Freeman, and Monroe K. Spears
Poetry by Hayden Carruth, Ron Slate, William Heyen, and Ed Ochester
Spring 1985
Volume 61, Number 2
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Poetry
Contributor Profiles
Hayden Carruth (1921–2008) published work with VQR for nearly forty years, and he remains the only poet to have won VQR’s Emily Clark Balch Prize more than once. In his long life in letters, he published literary criticism, essays, a novel, and more than thirty books of poetry. His many awards include a National Book Critics Circle Award, a Lannan Literary Award, the Carl Sandburg Award, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, the Paterson Poetry Prize, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.
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