Summer 2003

Quarterlies and the Future of Reading by George Core A Summoning of Place by George Garrett Vive L’Indifférence! by Jesse Bier Fiction by Deborah Prum, Murray Dunlap, Robert Hildt Poetry by John Balaban, Deborah Slicer, Charles Harper Webb, Floyd Skloot, Sharon Leiter, Peter Pereira, Hank Lazer
Summer 2003

Volume 79, Number 3

Virginia Quarterly Review, Summer 2003 cover
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Table of contents

Poetry 
POETRY / ISSUE: Summer 2003

Highway 61 Revisited

By John Balaban
POETRY / ISSUE: Summer 2003

O Merciful God (And Some Angels)

By Deborah Slicer
POETRY / ISSUE: Summer 2003

A Meal Not Eaten

By Charles Harper Webb
POETRY / ISSUE: Summer 2003

Why Call It Dust?

By Sharon Leiter
 
/ ISSUE: Summer 2003

Lyric Poetry’s Saving Grace

By Sanford Pinsker
/ ISSUE: Summer 2003

Turning Straw Into Gold

By Peter Pereira
/ ISSUE: Summer 2003

A Wolf In Virginia

By Murray Dunlap
/ ISSUE: Summer 2003

H. L. Mencken: Prose Marvel

By Richard O'Mara
/ ISSUE: Summer 2003

Prayer

By Hank Lazer
/ ISSUE: Summer 2003

Vive L’Indifférence!

By Jesse Bier
/ ISSUE: Summer 2003

The Green Room, Summer 2003

By Staige D. Blackford
/ ISSUE: Summer 2003

Stephen L. Carter: the Christian As Contrarian

By Michael Nelson
/ ISSUE: Summer 2003

Notes on Current Books, Summer 2003

/ ISSUE: Summer 2003

Tapes, Scholars, and the Value of Community: One Perspective on the Future of Presidential History

By Kenneth W. Thompson
/ ISSUE: Summer 2003

Sotol

By John Balaban
/ ISSUE: Summer 2003

Working Without A Net

By Robert Hildt
/ ISSUE: Summer 2003

Sunflowers, Wyoming

By Deborah Slicer
/ ISSUE: Summer 2003

The Rock Pile In the Swamp

By Patricia Foster
/ ISSUE: Summer 2003

Loco

By Deborah Slicer
/ ISSUE: Summer 2003

Quarterlies and the Future of Reading

By George Core
/ ISSUE: Summer 2003

Memories of A Tranquil Revolution

By Hans A. Schmitt
/ ISSUE: Summer 2003

The Open-Air Concert Survived A Shaky Start

By Charles Harper Webb
/ ISSUE: Summer 2003

The Enron Factor In American Life

By Robert Erwin
/ ISSUE: Summer 2003

A Bee Out of the Hive

By David Lee Rubin
/ ISSUE: Summer 2003

Relocation

By Floyd Skloot
/ ISSUE: Summer 2003

A Summoning of Place

By George Garrett
/ ISSUE: Summer 2003

War and Literature

By Jan Barry
/ ISSUE: Summer 2003

The Dance

By Floyd Skloot
/ ISSUE: Summer 2003

Searching for Arthur’s Stone

By Deborah M. Prum
/ ISSUE: Summer 2003

Pakistan: A Political Enigma

By M. Sajjad Yusuf
/ ISSUE: Summer 2003

The Cruciverbalist

By Peter Pereira
/ ISSUE: Summer 2003

Hugo Black and Thomas Jefferson

By Daniel J. Meador

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