About the Cover

A Japanese glass fishing float rests in a bed of wild geranium, Yakatat, Alaska.
© 2012 by Clark James Mishler

AQR Vol. 29, No. 3 & 4, Fall/Winter 2012

Table of Contents

Fiction

Nonfiction

Special Feature

Urgent Beauties: 30th Anniversary Poems
Introduction to “30th Anniversary Poems”, Jane Hirshfield
30th Anniversary Poems: Part One

GUEST EDITOR, Jane Hirshfield

About My Father, Robert Bly
Day Sounds, Billy Collins
Alaska Aubade (Summer), Olena Kalytiak Davis
Lyric Poet Disease, Stuart Dischell
Pomade, Rita Dove
Pescadero, Mark Doty
If a Clown, Stephen Dunn
Ravenswood, Stuart Dybek
Sad Beauty, Nancy Eimers
Small Hut, Tess Gallagher
Healed by Fascination, Patricia Hampl
As the Roots Prepare for Literature, Brenda Hillman
The Stone of Heaven, Jane Hirshfield
What the Living Do, Marie Howe
Sprung Rhythm of a Landscape, Yusef Komunyakaa
Elegy Beginning with Half a Line from Ben Jonson, Maxine Kumin
Juneau Spring, Dorianne Laux
Hidden Hearing, Li-Young Lee
Creole, Robert Pinsky
In General, Pattiann Rogers
Pentimenti, Kay Ryan
The Dog, Michael Ryan
Long Before We Got Here, Long After We’re Gone, Peggy Shumaker
Independence Day, Gerald Stern
The Scattered Congregation, Tomas Tranströmer
In the Electricity of Love, Its Lightning Strike, Jean Valentine
The Death of the Magician, David Wagoner
Being As I Was, How Could I Help, Eleanor Wilner
Gravity, Kevin Young
Poem for Delkash, Matthew Zapruder

Acknowledgements

30th Anniversary Poems: Part 2

GUEST EDITOR, Todd Boss

For an Old Runner, Todd Boss
I Don’t Suppose We Have Us, Jennifer Denrow
The Why, Alex Dimitrov
Two Story, Jill Alexander Essbaum
Phone Call from My Sister, Who Believes She’s Reactivated a Vanished Twin in Her Jawbone, Anna Journey
Newly Arrived in the World, Athena Kildegaard
Hither-and-Yon, Rickey Laurentiis
O2, North Greenwich, Lorraine Mariner
I Was Flying, Malena Mörling
Before the Boat is a Boat, Matthew Nienow
From, Jill Osier
from Bizarre, Nathaniel Perry
With an Old Oar, Light Turning the Fog, Gretchen Steele Pratt
The One We’re Falling Into, Derek Sheffield
Lightning Conductor, Jon Stone
30th Anniversary Poems: Part 3

GUEST EDITOR, Camille T. Dungy

Song: Running Away, Dan Bellm
from Rocket Fantastic, Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Nocturne in the Shadow of a Dormant Volcano, Oliver de la Paz
[eh-met tilz feys], Samantha De Trinidad
Glacial Erratics, Camille T. Dungy
The Whale, Aracelis Girmay
Anaberto Skypes with His Mother, Rigoberto González
Before Blood After Honey, Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Global Studies, James Hoch
The Labor of Stagger Lee: Lion, Douglas Kearney
The Origin of Feathers in My Windshield, Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Wish, Patrick Rosal
Vivarium, Natasha Sajé
Sotto Voce: Othello, Unplugged, Tim Seibles
occi-moron, Evie Shockley