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Iowa Review VOLUME THIRTY-ONE NUMBER TWO 2001

Sarah Manguso,Todd Hasak-Lowy, Alicia Bayer, Kevin Kopelson, Sherman Paul, E. J. Graff, Julie Jordan Hansen, Kirsten Kaschock,

Tony Trigilio, Pauline Aspel, Rowena Torrevillas, Christopher Cokinos,

Martin Rejtman, Leonard Nathan, Rigoberto Gonzalez, Marilyn Chin,

De Witt Henry, Howard Luxenberg, John Witte, Judith Claire Mitchell,

Sarah Gambito, Hwang JiWoo, Karl Harshbarger, Tod Marshall,

Jeffrey Bartlett, Michael Hudson, David Ray, Gerald Stern, Robin Behn,

H.S. Shiva Prakash, Kathleen Peirce, Sue Standing, Mike Finn

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Human Rights Index

Prepared by The University of Iowa

Center for Human Rights (UICHR)

14: number of children executed under capital punishment in the United States since

1990 22: documented, politically motivated murders in Cambodia during the final two months

before the July 1998 National Assembly elections

50: estimated percentage of Russian criminal suspects subjected to torture or ill-treatment

60: number of journalists under arrest or convicted of various crimes in Turkey in 1997

100: number of lashings given to a teenage mother in Nigeria by an Islamic court for

allegedly having sex outside of marriage

185,000: number of ethnic Albanians who fled or were expelled from their homes in

Kosovo as a result of ethnie conflict during 1999

40,000,000: estimated number of bonded laborers in India during 1999

30: percentage of Americans who face problems accessing health care due to cost

200-300: number of children dying from malaria every hour

300,000: number of children under the age of eighteen currently participating in armed

conflicts in more than thirty countries

500,000: number of women who die during clrildbirth and unsafe abortions each year

784,000: number of Colombian children between the ages of 6 and 11 who work

1,700,000: number of civilians who have died since 1998 through deprivation of water,

food, and health care, and through combat-related casualties in the war between the

Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda

3,000,000: number of people in southern Sudan facing serious food shortages due to

ongoing civil conflict and drought

11: percentage of Honduran population constituting indigenous peoples, with little or no

ability to participate in decisions affecting their lands, traditions, nor the allocation of

natural resources

40: number of years the Moronene people have struggled to secure their claim to ancestral

lands in southeast Sulawesi in Indonesia

84: percentage of Palestinians (800,000 people) exiled from their homelands following the

Israel-Arab War of 1948 and the establishment of the State of Israel

404: number of recorded cases of illegal ocean

dumping of wastes in Japanese waters in

1998

5,000,000 ?

7,000,000: estimated number of lancbriines in Afghanistan restricting areas

for cultivation and slowing the return of refugees

3,400,000,000,000: total dollars spent by the United States on preparing for nuclear war

since the SecondWorldWar

*For figure sources and further information on Human Rights please visit The University

of Iowa Center for Human Rights at http://www.uichr.org

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The Iowa Review is a literary magazine published by the Department of English and the Graduate College of The University of Iowa.

David Hamilton, Editor

Max W. Thomas and Douglas Trevor, Associate Editors

Amber Withycombe, Managing Editor

Joshua Kryah, Steven Patterson, Assistant Editors

Brian Lennon, Weh Editor

Elizabeth Dietz, Keith Driver, Hugh Ferrer, Megan Johnson, Eric Jones, Tim Lake, Megan Levad, Jason MacLeod, Tara McLellan, Leslie Roberts,

Michael Savitz, Matthew Shindell, Anthony Swofford, Holly Welker,

Editorial Assistants

David Baldus, Frank Conroy, Charles Kremenak, Leslie Sims, Thomas

Walz, Advisory Board

Our cover images this year are by Lois C. Thompson of Kansas City, Missouri. Ms. Thompson's work, inspired by and in part done in Venice,

is intaglio and mixed media, which includes, in several instances, green

wooden shutters liberated from the trash. This issue features "Shutter

Fragments I & II," Intaglio and Mixed Media, 11" x 10" (1999).

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Fall 2001 Volume 31 Number 2 Iowa Review

Jeffrey Bartlett 1

Judith Claire Mitchell 23

Sarah Manguso 42

43

44

Tony Trigilio 45

Kathleen Parce 47 48

Pauline Aspel 49 Kirsten Kaschock 50

DeWitt Henry 53

Karl Harshbarger 60 Todd Hasak-Lowy 67

Sarah Gambito

Leonard Nathan

Robin Behn

Martin Rejtman

Hwang JiWoo

HS. Shiva Prakash

Mike Finn

Rowena Torrevillas

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100 102 103 104

As Part of the World: Letters from

Sherman Paul

Unknown Donor

Two Variations on a Theme by Stevens

What I Found

The Dunes in Truro

The Longest Continuing Running Policeman

After Po Chu-i

Tokens

Lustral Waters

Imagined Births: A Collection of

Disturbances

Gravity The Mail in the Morning On the Grounds of the Complex

Commemorating the Nazis'

Treatment of the Jews Scene: A Loom

My Parting Gift Story The Message

Pilgrim's Progress Prelude for Penny Whistle

Thought is Allowed

Alplax Great Gate Facing Westward

I Am You

The Crown Prince at the Door of an

Old Woman's Hut

Hey You, Go Bring

from Pigtown Whose Sleeves

Mud

Thinking with the Body

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John Witte

Julie Jordan Hanson

Marilyn Chin

Tod Marshall

Howard Luxenberg Kevin Kopelson

EJ Graff Gerald Stern

David Hamilton

David Ray

Sue Standing

Rigoberto Gonzalez

Michael Hudson

Alicia Bayer

Christopher Cokinos

06 Bestiary 07 Giving Blood After the Schoolyard

Shootings 08 Nature, Tooth and Claw

11 F/Sm4aL 13 Variations on an Ancient Theme: The

Drunken Husband

15 Yes, There Are Times

16 Getel's Story 19 Finishing Proust

43 Brotherhood

46 Hydrangea 47 Large Pots

48 An Interview with Gerald Stern

57 Magic 58 The Lion Tamer

60 The Solution 61 The Horizon of Inexhaustible Ideality 62 Flamboyan 63 Transference

64 Amelia Earhart on My Last Day of

Drinking 65 Draft of a Note for Running Away

from Home

66 Divine Interference

67 Cairns

72 Postscript 77 Honor Roll

78 Notes on Contributors

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