AQR - Vol. 16, No. 3 & 4, Spring/Summer 1998
About the Cover
Sea fog hangs over the Kenai Mountains and Prince William Sound, north of Seward, Alaska.
©1998 Richard J. Murphy
Table of Contents
Fiction
Evangeline, René LeBlanc
Merry-Go-Sorry, Cary Holladay
Seeds, Paul Ruffin
Foo Dogs, Amber Dorko Stopper
Old Dogs, Bonnie Jo Campbell
A Woman’s Name, Diane Williams
The Book of Matthew, Susan Vreeland
Beidermann and God’s Gift, Lloyd Zimpel
Closer, Susan Rosalsky
Across the River, William Orem
The Last Mourner, Norberto Luis Romero Translated by H.E. Francis
Coke Bottles Catching Rain, Janice Levy
At the Edge of the River, Karen Heuler
Drama
Answering Machine, Anthony Tognazzini
Poetry
Guest Editor: Pattiann Rogers
Mass of the Moon Eclipse, Denise Levertov
A New Flower, Denise Levertov
Wild Fruit, Alison Deming
The Naturalists, Alison Deming
Anima Mundi, D. James Smith
The Motion of Wings and Water, George Looney
What Truth Feels Like in the Body, Analisa Lee
Grief, Analisa Lee
Lightning a Hundred Yards Away, Analisa Lee
The Altay Mountains, A.K. DiFranco
Bark River, Andrew Smith
Cross-Country Skiing, David Koehn
Steelhead, David Koehn
Out of Their Element, Robert Michael Pyle
At the Dead Se, Lisa Yanover
Seri Indian Horned Lizard Song, Gary Nabhan
200 Years After Lewis and Clark, Janisse Ray
Rescue, Janisse Ray
Weeds, Dennis Held
Diaspora, Dennis Held
One Prayer from Eden, Kim Stafford
Phos Hilaron: Evening Prayer in the Piney Woods, Carolyn Maddux
Crows in the Fall, Carolyn Maddux
Autumn Lunch on Hood Canal, Carolyn Maddux
Dungeness Crabbing at Siletz Bay, Alison Apotheker
Agatha in the Dark, Claire Davis
Flinch and Glow, Claire Davis
Bestiary, William Breen
The Great Apes, Ronald Wallace
Substratum, Albert Goldbarth
Insides, Albert Goldbarth
Slipper, Wallet, Briefs, Albert Goldbarth
Or of Anything, Albert Goldbarth
Meditation on a Hemlock, Matt Yurdana
Entropy, Faith Shearin
Jimmy, Daniel Donaghy
Elmer, Len Roberts
Walking Back, John Straley
Birches, Mary Kay Rummel
Advent, Mary Kay Rummel
My 47 Lives, Wendy Bishop
New Year’s Eve Foxfires at the Changing Tree, Denise Rogers
To Hokusai, on Viewing One of His “Country Scenes”, Denise Rogers
The Sixty-Three Stations of the Kiso Highway, Denise Rogers
I Stop to Consider Zhuangzhi’s Parable on the Way to Visit My Grandmother’s Grave, Denise Rogers
On Not Understanding a Word of What the Monks Read and Loving It, David Francis
Believing in Things Seen, Will Clemens
The Passing, Beth Ann Fennelly
Corrections: The Editors Regret the Following Errors Made in the History of Art, Beth Ann Fennelly
From the Gallery of Stolen Pictures, Pamela Gross
Spread Wing / Great Horned Owl, Pamela Gross
Gatekeeper, Steven Trulock
Dawn, Steven Trulock
Cold Seed, Jim Daniels
Death of Phoebe, Brian Doyle
Prayer for a Friend I Haven’t Met, Brian Doyle
I Still Can’t Say the Word, Walt McDonald
The Son, Carrie Etter
the shape of leaving, Nancy Rifkin
I Needed to Ask Him Something, Nay Hannawi
Winter Garden, Robert Hunter Jones
Thumbnail Sketch, Robert Hunter Jones
All Those Women on Fine September Afternoons, Katerina Vandenberg
Entusiasm in Two Parts, Naomi Shihab Nye
Last Day of August, Naomi Shihab Nye