AQR - Vol. 19, No. 1 & 2, Summer/Fall 2001

About the Cover

Alaska Railroad tracks head toward the Placer Valley, the Spencer Glacier, and Grandview Pass on the way to Seward, Alaska. In the distance are the Chugach Mountains.

©2001 Benjamin Spatz

Table of Contents

Fiction

Freud in America, Susie Mee
Surveillance, Courtney Angela Brkic
Pond Life, Russ Franklin
The Wolf, Susan Fox
An Accident in the Woods, Sarah Jane Birdsall
Warning, Jane Hammons
Woman Descending, David Ryan
Keepers, Tara Jill Ciccarone
Gramme’s Dynamo, Charles Prowell
The Paanwallah, Suniti Landgé
Soup, Jean Hanson
Woman Waits Alone for the Rain, Jennifer Moses
The People Who’ve Left Him, Otis Haschemeyer
Night-Callers, S.G. Miller
The Bird Story, Amber Dorko Stopper
The Big Garage Sale, Lawrence Keel
Expensive Trips Nowhere, Tom Bissell

Nonfiction

From Safekeeping, Apple Cake , I Ate There Once , His Suggestion , Power , Overturned Rowboat , I Hated Them Both , Nothing Is Wasted , Passion , Ponds , What I Know, Abigail Thomas
High Plains Vernacular, Jenny Flynn

Poetry

Trying to Locate the Beginning, Marsha Janson
With Enough Heat and a Good Wind Near Aneurysms of Soot, George Looney
Donatila’s Victory Orchard, Virgil Suarez
The Nature of Memory and Fireflies, Daniel Donaghy
On Seeing a Nude Self-Portrait of Imogen Cunningham, Melody Lacina
Lucent, Melissa Morphew
In Iowa, Marilyn Abildskov
On the Death of a Barn Owl, Chris Souza
Eve, Liz Beasley
The Miraculous, Nancy Kuhl
Animal People A History of Romanticism, Rebecca Seiferle
In Verdi’s Café, Mary Crow
Trophy, Heather Brittain Bergstrom
Hero, Barbara O’Dair
Nappy, Monique S. Ferrell
A Young Woman Decides to Make Love for the First Time, David Simpson
The Deeper Focus, Laurie Clements Lambeth
My Father Dying, Jeanne Emmons
Night, Ioanna Carlsen
The Forgotten, Rick Bursky
Pieta, Moira Linehan
The Man Who Could Send People to Hell, Benjamin Paloff
Sherlock’s Confession, Peter Leight
Wife, Nicole Ross
The Entry on “Nothing” in the Encyclopedia Subtractica, Peter B. Harris
Naming, Scott Edward Anderson
Beginning at the End, David Hernandez
Icarus Descending, Carol Edelstein
The Satellite Dish at the La Quinta Inn, Jeffrey Greene
St. John’s Head, Hoy, Orkney Islands, Martha Zweig
A Kindly Voice, Peter Hanke
The Death of Franco, David Blair
Accidental Blessings, John Straley
How All Stories End, James Sallis