AQR - Vol 15, No. 1 & 2, Fall/Winter 1996

About the Cover

In a glacial valley in southcentral Alaska, a caribou horn rests in wind-blown grass. The gold-rich Talkeetna Range rises in the background.

©1996 Richard J. Murphy

Table of Contents

Special Section, Alan Lightman

Uneasy Pleasure — Learning to love the Questions Themselves: An Interview with Alan Lightman
from Einstein’s Dreams:Prologue
from Einstein’s Dreams:26 April 1905
from Einstein’s Dreams:14 May 1905
from Einstein’s Dreams:2 June 1905
from Einstein’s Dreams:17 June 1905
from Good Benito
Other Rooms
Pas de Deux

Fiction

California, Patrick Roscoe
Songbird, Wendell Mayo
Dancing in Slow Motion, Melanie Hendrix
Absolution, Randi Davenport
The Girl Who Took Two Trains, Amber Dorko Stopper
Day of Days, Joshua Braff
Distance, Elizabeth Moore
The Loneliest Road in America, Roy Parvin
The Winter Guest, H.E. Francis
I Found Hitler’s Golf Clubs, Ron Carlson

Poetry

Guest Editor: Stuart Dischell

Towards, Thomas Lux
Hunting, the Mice Come to America, Sheila Nickerson
Voice-over, David Rivard
Delirious, Ira Sadoff
On the Corruption of Bodies, David Blair
Not Crying, Gail Mazur
All Night I Waited for the Deer, Michael Sofranko
To Be Carried up from the Cellar, Louise Kennelly
Montana, A. Naoko Heck
Master of the CarIan, Randall Wilson
Internal Directions, Julie Funderburk
The Gods’ Breasts, Kevin Boyle
The Poet through French Doors, Zev Levinson
For Whoever Reads My Book in Solitude, Jason Sommer
Inhibitions, Symptoms, Anxiety, David Ghitelman
Falling Asleep over a Book about Consciousness, Steven Cramer
Anxiety of Influence, Askold Melnyczuk
Last Request, November 1939, Eve Wood
Men and Parrots: El Paso, Texas, Kathleene West
Missionary Ridge, Leigh Anne Couch
High Summer, Mummy Range, Colorado, David Olson
Foundering, Clenn Reed
Carriage House, Jennifer Militello
“Without Impatience”, D.L. Stevens
Silent Partner, Christina Veladota
Under the Pines, Tom Sleigh
Shrike, Jennifer Manning
The Ferrier, Michael Collier
Another Day, Alan Shapiro