About the Cover
Of the 8,000-plus mosquito species occurring in the world, only 27 are known to occur in Alaska. This lack of diversity is more than made up by the sheer numbers in which they occur. On the Arctic tundra, mosquitoes can take as much as a quart of blood per day from a caribou.
©1993 Paul G. Hansen
AQR Vol. 12, No. 1 & 2, Fall/Winter 1993
Table of Contents
Special Section: Rosellen Brown
Looking Down on this Vast Space that Could Be Mine: An Interview with Rosellen Brown
How to Win
Going to See the Rainbows
Renata (from The Autobiography of My Mother)
Prologue to Civil Wars
Prologue to Before and After
Absolute for Death
A Wry Music
Coming to This
That Table (from Cora Fry)
Don’t Just Sit There: Writing as a Polymorphous Perverse Pleasure
Donald Barthelme: A Preliminary Account
Fiction
On the Way, Pamela S. Gross
Triptych, Stuart Dybek
Earthquake, Susan Barnes
China, Victoria Redel
The Arab Table, Amber Dorko
Sunday, Julie Esther Fisher
Plans, Linda Moore Spencer
Poetry
Farms, Linda Andrews
Fiddling, Alice Derry
My Mother at the Pond, Adam Nicholas
Aquarium, Vanessa Haley
Puffin Hunter, Ted Benttinen
The Flaming Car, David Starkey
Angelus Novus, Brian Culhane
Anniversaries, Martin Palmer
In an August Garden, along the Path in Tenakee Springss, Sheila Nickerson