The Iowa Review

This issue of The Iowa Review features the winner and finalists of the magazine's 2012 Jeff Sharlet Memorial Award for Veterans. In this issue: trading a Playboy for a hat, lines for telephone calls, lines for Rembrandt, lines along the circumferences of yams in the kitchen, killing time with muted baseball games and cheap metal detectors, a dusty dog and remembering to remember her name, supervillains with paralyzing beams, museums of drones, streets a latticework of fire, and what's morality to you? Table of Contents: POEM Hugh Martin: Foot Patrol; Intravenous; Nocturne with IED; Ares; Winter, Kurdistan; The Neck in Front of You; Test Fire; The Tunnel at Red Creek; Memorial Day; Lieutenant Graves at La Bourse; Operation New Dawn Michael White: Vermeer in Hell Kenny Tanemura: Hiroshima Haibun; Siege of Sarajevo; Beit Shemesh Rochelle Owens: Song from Out of Ur Jonathan Travelstead: Fifty-Two Hertz; Lesson in the Sunday Comics Guy R. Beining: 3b. eroseater; lengthening loss Tony Sanders: Desserts with Some Opinions about Fruit and So Be It; Lost Romantics and Other Peasantries Brock Michael Jones: Movie Night: Baghdad, April 2005; Hope; Translation Nell Regan: Iowa City Sestina; Lieder; Mist at Dusk Lindsey Waterman: Swivel Chair STORY Cole Becher: Charybdis Philip Tate: Black Chevy O.A. Lindsey: Evie M. Chinelo Okparanta: Designs [ONLINE ONLY: Interview with Chinelo Okparanta by TIR poetry editor Rae-Winkelstein Duveneck] Nathan Bradley: Encounters with the Finger of God S. Brady Tucker: The Mountain Man’s Relativity Theory Raymond Fleischmann: You Need to Stop This, You Need to Disappear Terry Hertzler: Missionaries in the Cornfields; How I Came Home; A Brotherhood of Birds; Firestorm: San Diego 2007; Legacy Usman Rafi: Refugees in Recession ESSAY John Teschner: On Drones Aleš Šteger (trans. Brian Henry): Guilt at Lindenstrasse 9 COMIC Héctor Germán Oesterheld and Francisco Solano López (trans. Erica Mena): The Eternonaut ARTWORK The Combat Paper Project — works by Drew Cameron, Drew Luan Matott, Jesse Albrecht, and Chris Arendt