Spring 2008

Volume 84/2

Featuring superhero stories by Tom Bissell, George Singleton, and Scott Snyder. Also, Kwame Dawes on HIV/AIDS in Jamaica, Bill Sizemore on the life and work of Pat Robertson, unpublished work from Ezra Pound, Chris Ware’s latest installment of “Jordan W. Lint,” poetry from Billy Collins, Ted Kooser and Charles Simic. And lots more from Glen Retief, Lawrence Weschler, William Logan, Melanie Rae Thon, Matthew Power, and many others.

Spring 2008

Volume 84, Number 2

Print: $14.00

Digital download: $14.00

Reporting

REPORTING / ISSUE: Spring 2008

Learning to Speak: The New Age of HIV/AIDS in the Other Jamaica

By Kwame Dawes , Photography by Joshua Cogan

REPORTING / ISSUE: Spring 2008

Charlie Don’t Surf

By Matthew Power

Essays

ESSAYS / ISSUE: Spring 2008

The Jack Bank

By Glen Retief

ESSAYS / ISSUE: Spring 2008

Rory’s Story

By Geoffrey Hayes

ESSAYS / ISSUE: Spring 2008

Ezra Pound: Foreign Correspondent

By Jon Schneider

ESSAYS / ISSUE: Spring 2008

Forward into the Past: Reading the New Critics

By William Logan

Profiles

PROFILES / ISSUE: Spring 2008

The Stories of Strangers: Mexican Ex-Voto Paintings

By Rosamond Purcell

PROFILES / ISSUE: Spring 2008

Embeddedness: Robert Irwin in His Seventies

By Lawrence Weschler

PROFILES / ISSUE: Spring 2008

The Christian with Four Aces

By Bill Sizemore

Criticism

CRITICISM / ISSUE: Spring 2008

Book Notes

Art

ART / ISSUE: Spring 2008

Dead-Eye Comic

By Ross MacDonald

Fiction

FICTION / ISSUE: Spring 2008

My Interview with the Avenger

By Tom Bissell , Illustrations by Gary Panter

FICTION / ISSUE: Spring 2008

Man Oh Man—It’s Manna Man

By George Singleton , Illustrations by Gary Panter

FICTION / ISSUE: Spring 2008

Love Song for the Mother of No Children

By Melanie Rae Thon

FICTION / ISSUE: Spring 2008

Jordan W. Lint, Installment #2

By Chris Ware

FICTION / ISSUE: Spring 2008

The 13th Egg

By Scott Snyder , Illustrations by Gary Panter

Poetry

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2008

Children’s Crusade

By Jason Schneiderman

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2008

Sundown Blues

By Charles Wright

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2008

The Great American Poem

By Billy Collins

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2008

Time Is a Child-biting Dog

By Charles Wright

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2008

I Send News: She Has Survived the Tumor After All

By Mary Szybist

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2008

The Book

By Charles Wright

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2008

St. James Infirmary

By Sara du Sablon

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2008

Psalm

By Matt Donovan

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2008

Hosanna

By Temple Cone

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2008

Motel Makeshift Lullaby

By Matt Donovan

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2008

Jamie’s Hair

By Michael Bishop

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2008

Insomnia

By Linda Pastan

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2008

Dark Is the Night

By Charles Simic

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2008

By Starlight

By Ted Kooser

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2008

The Storm

By Charles Simic

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2008

At Dawn

By Ted Kooser

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2008

What He Said

By Charles Simic

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2008

Window Shade

By Ted Kooser

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2008

Solitude

By Charles Simic

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2008

A Mouse in a Trap

By Ted Kooser

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2008

As the Train Rolls Through, I Remember an Old Poem

By Charles Wright

Editor's Desk

EDITOR'S DESK / ISSUE: Spring 2008

Look, Up in the Sky!

By Ted Genoways

/ ISSUE: Spring 2008

Response from Pat Robertson’s Attorney

/ ISSUE: Spring 2008

Ezra Pound in VQR

By Jon Schneider

Contributor Profiles

George Singleton

George Singleton has published four collections of stories and two novels, most recently Work Shirts for Madmen (Harcourt, 2007).

Billy Collins

Billy Collins, the US Poet Laureate from 2001 to 2003, is the author of many collections of poetry, including Questions About Angels (Pittsburg, 1999) and Aimless Love (Random House, 2013).