Winter 2002

MEN AT WAR: Essays by W. D. Ehrhart and Paul Duke A Pen of Fire by Peter D. Bridges Riding over the Past—Cahaba 1936 by Daniel J. Meador Fiction by Thomas H. McNeely, Mark Budman, Patricia Gosling Poetry by Alan Feldman, Phyllis Stowell, Dorothy Barresi, Nance van Winckel, Christine Hume, Dara Wier, Joan Aleshire
Winter 2002

Volume 78, Number 1

Virginia Quarterly Review, Winter 2002 cover
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Table of contents

Essays 
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Riding Over the Past? Cahaba, 1936

By Daniel J. Meador
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By A Dam Site

By Angus Maclean Thuermer
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Winter 2002

A Pen of Fire

By Peter Bridges
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Postcard Picasso

By Jeanne Schinto
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Winter 2002

The Madness of It All: A Rumination on War, Journalism, and Brotherhood

By W. D. Ehrhart
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Winter 2002

The Greatest Generation?

By Paul Duke
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Winter 2002

The Next Revolution In Scotland

By Russell Fraser
Criticism 
CRITICISM / ISSUE: Winter 2002

Notes on Current Books, Winter 2002

CRITICISM / ISSUE: Winter 2002

Jubilant America

By Matthew Dennis
CRITICISM / ISSUE: Winter 2002

Newspaper Pieces Between Hard Covers

By Sanford Pinsker
CRITICISM / ISSUE: Winter 2002

Spoon River Bard

By Stephen Cushman
CRITICISM / ISSUE: Winter 2002

E Pluribus Unum?

By J. C. Levenson
CRITICISM / ISSUE: Winter 2002

A Pleasure Grove of Italian Renaissance Art

By Deborah Parker
Fiction 
FICTION / ISSUE: Winter 2002

Hurricane Season

By Patricia Gosling
FICTION / ISSUE: Winter 2002

The Land of Dreams, the Garden of Insomnia

By Mark Budman
FICTION / ISSUE: Winter 2002

Snow, Houston, 1974

By Thomas H. Mcneely
Poetry 
POETRY / ISSUE: Winter 2002

She Thinks She Hung the Moon

By Dara Wier
POETRY / ISSUE: Winter 2002

Astronomy Lake

By Dara Wier
POETRY / ISSUE: Winter 2002

Nightshade

By Dara Wier
POETRY / ISSUE: Winter 2002

Wide-Eyed Look

By Joan Aleshire
POETRY / ISSUE: Winter 2002

Tete A Tete

By Joan Aleshire
POETRY / ISSUE: Winter 2002

Black Hope

By Dorothy Barresi
POETRY / ISSUE: Winter 2002

Pavane

By Alan Feldman
POETRY / ISSUE: Winter 2002

Releasing the Spirit

By Phyllis Stowell
POETRY / ISSUE: Winter 2002

Poem for the Thirty-Fifth Anniversary of Valium

By Dorothy Barresi
POETRY / ISSUE: Winter 2002

Poem to Some of My Recent Purchases

By Dorothy Barresi
POETRY / ISSUE: Winter 2002

Idea for An Echo

By Christine Hume
Editor's Desk 
EDITOR'S DESK / ISSUE: Winter 2002

The Green Room, Winter 2002

By Staige D. Blackford

Contributor Profiles

Paul Duke

Paul Duke. Native Richmond, Va. Journalist. The Associated Press, Wall Street journal, NBC, PBS. Moderator Washington Week in Review 1974-94. Author of numerous articles for leading publications, including The Saturday Evening Post, the New Republic and Virginia Quarterly Review. Winner of various press awards, including the $25,000 John Chancellor prize for lifetime journalistic excellence in 1999. Member of the Washington Jurnalism Hall of Fame andd the Virginia Communications Hall of Fame. Married to the former Janet Wachter, two children. Rresident Washington, D.C. and Sarasota, Fla.

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