Summer 1981

Robert Coles’s “Freud and God” John Israel & Steven H. Hochman’s “Discovering Jefferson in the People’s Republic of China” Alfred Burger’s “Drug Development: Challenges and Hurdles” Agnes Crawford Schuldt’s “Molecules and Music” Stories by Robert Coles, John Israel, Steven H. Hochman, Alfred Burger, and Agnes Crawford Schuldt Poetry by John Ashbery, Jane Miller, David McAleavey, and Bonnie Gordon
Summer 1981

Volume 57, Number 3

Virginia Quarterly Review, Summer 1981 cover
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Table of contents

Essays 
Poetry 
 

Contributor Profiles

John Ashbery is the author of more than twenty books of poetry. He has won the Yale Younger Poets Prize, the Bollingen Prize, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Griffin International Award, and a MacArthur “Genius” Grant.

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