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The Iowa School of Letters Award for Short Fiction
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The Itinerary of Beggars
H. E. Francis
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA PRESS IOWA CITY
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The previously published stories in this collection appear by permission: "The Frog Lady," Prairie Schooner 30 (1956). "The Woman from Jujuy," Southwest Review 57 (1972). "The Fence," Prairie Schooner 28 (1954). "The Man Who Made People," DeKalb Literary Arts Journal 1 (1967). Reprinted in This Issue, The Magazine for the New Creative, Book One, Number Three. "One of the Boys,'' Southwest Review 51 (1966). ''All the People I Never Had," Transatlantic Review 21 (1966). "The Moment of Fish," Southern Review 7 n.s. (1971). "The Deepest Chamber," Four Quarters 15 (1966). "3," Virginia Quarterly Review 44 (1968). "All the Carnivals in the World," Southern Review 5 n.s. (1969). "Don't Stay Away Too Long," Southwest Review 54 (1969). "The Rate of Decomposition in a Cold Climate," Southwest Review 53 (1968). "The Game," Georgia Review 16 (1962). "Going West," Transatlantic Review 28 (1968). "The Transfusion Man," DeKalb Literary Arts Journal 4 (1970). "Where Was My Life Before I Died?" Southwest Review 56 (1971).
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 73-80957 University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242 1973 by H. E. Francis. All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America ISBN 87745-039-0
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FOR ANTONIO SANCHEZ-BARBUDO HENRY MANN AND EVELYN VERITY, MY MOTHER
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Contents
The Frog Lady
1
The Woman from Jujuy
17
The Fence
29
The Man Who Made People
45
One of the Boys
63
All the People I Never Had
80
The Moment of Fish
93
The Deepest Chamber
102
3
115
All the Carnivals in the World
128
Don't Stay Away Too Long
145
The Rate of Decomposition in a Cold Climate
163
The Game
184
Going West
189
The Transfusion Man
202
The Itinerary of Beggars
213
Where Was My Life Before I Died?
229
Contemplations of Ecstasy on the Day of My Suicide
246
Running
263
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Preface
A hundred and fifty of us here in Iowa City make up a community known as the Writers Workshop which likes to believe writing is the most difficult and the most important line of work a man or woman can pursue. We also like to believe that this town, although no longer capital of the state, holds just that relation to the writer's territory which reaches wherever the American language is read.
Whatever is myth in that notion, there is none in Iowa City's being a writing town where for better than thirty-five years people have come to write and to share their ideas about writing.
So it is natural that trends which affect writers are discussed here and when they are deemed harmful, countermeasures are devised and sometimes taken. When the reluctance of commercial firms to publish short story collections by new authors was noted and deplored here a few years ago, reflective, resourceful people acted. They proclaimed that whatever the public taste and the inclination of publishers, the short story remains the first and truest test of a writer's craft, and thereupon established the Iowa School of Letters Award.
This is an annual celebration of the short story which sees one collection into print and its author richer by a thousand dollars at least. The Award is four years old now and hope is strong that it will continue as regularly as the coming of spring and at least unto doomsday.
This year the thousand-dollar sum is provided by the Iowa Arts Council and it goes to H. E. Francis, a Rhode Islander who for nearly a decade has divided his time between this country and Argentina. His stories reflect an enviable ability not just to absorb an alien culture but to make it persuasively his own. Nor is this Mr. Francis' only virtuosity. His stories preclude comparison with those of other writers. Their mood is strange, often brooding and monstrous, and yet they are re-
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