AQR - Vol. 17, No. 1 & 2, Fall/Winter 1998

About the Cover

Water rushes under the ice of Falls Creek, in the Chugach Mountain Range, near Anchorage, Alaska.

©1998 Richard J. Murphy

Table of Contents

Special Section

To Give Back to the World Something That I Had Been Treated to Myself: An Interview with Richard Ford
Empire (Short Story), Richard Ford
Where Does Writing Come From? (Essay), Richard Ford

Fiction

Dona Lupita’s Youngest Daughter, Patrick Roscoe
Bath Water, Mark Brazaitis
The Drowned Man’s Notes, Brian Hocevar
The Blue Spring Weekly Enterprise, Chris Fink
Dead Animal Man, Kathleen Wakefield
Home Schooling, Edith Pearlman

Nonfiction

1967, Greg Bottoms
Falsies: A Memoir, (Mrs. Yachenflaster, I Was A Child, What You Think About When You Think About Nothing, Hosts, Misteltov, Mercury, Hunts, Marching Through Poland, My First Date, Artifacts of a Lost Mother, Nits, Nuts for You, Frank Sinatra’s Gum, Moth), Kelly Simon

Poetry

Guest Editor: Dorianne Laux

Like That, Kim Addonizio
Mermaid Song, Kim Addonizio
Love and Desire, Elizabeth Clamen
Spectral Dues, Pimone Triplett
Late June, Rosann Kozlowski
Type A Personality, Reetika Vazirani
Dear John, Susan Browne
Star Food Sonata, Susan Browne
Flounder, Ron Salisbury
Your Daughter At Christmas, Ron Salisbury
Waiting for My Wife, Ron Koertge
Night Plumber, Nikki Moustaki
Two People, Priscilla Lee
The Heart of a Bonsai: Portrait of a Japanese Woman, Kyoko Mori
The Woman With a Full Tank, Thom Ward
Pulp Feminism, April Installment, Belle Waring
Henry Nelson’s Coat, Marjorie Kowalski Cole
from Muse, Susan Aizenberg
Prayer, Susan Aizenberg
To the Madonna of Fort Mason and Her Four-Eyed Son, C.E. Chaffin
To Charles Bukowski, C.E. Chaffin
The Truth Squad, Dennis Schmitz
Crucifixions, Diane Seuss-Brakeman
Cronos, Mitchell LesCarbeau
My Father and Thomas Wyatt in Hefka’s Bar, Joseph Millar
Thinking About Sex, Joseph Millar
The Cage, Susan Yuzna
Anonymity, Augustine Porras
Crows, Doug Anderson
The Bowhead’s Ambergris, David Koehn
The Blue Dress, Steve Kowit
Consummation, Jude Nutter
The Condition of the World, August 1997, Cortney Davis
from Verse at the Millennium, Christopher Presfield
Foundations, Nick Barrett
from Iron Fever, Stephan Torre
So Like a Door That Won’t Stay Closed, Frank Stewart
Flying Through the Clouds, Billy Collins
A Night on Earth, Billy Collins