AQR - Vol. 14, – No. 1 & 2, Fall/Winter 1995

About the Cover

At the Umkumiut fish camp, Ella Tulik takes dried herring off a drying rack. Umkumiut is located on Nelson Island in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta of Southwest Alaska.

©1993 James H. Barker

Table of Contents

Special Feature: Patricia Hampl

Look at a Teacup
From Virgin Time: Faith
From the”Afterword” of A Romantic Education
From Woman Before An Aquarium: Dream After Travel: Prague
Elegy for the Burned
FromResort: VII
The Moment
Summer Sublet
Solo
The White Gate
Six Chapters fromSpillville: Arrows, Laughing Water, Big Moon, Departure, Minnehaha, The Wave
The Need to Say It
Memory and Imagination

Fiction

Oh Yeah, Peter Finch
Vaulting, Patricia Fitzgerald
Guys, Rick Barba
His Chorus, Christine Schutt
Sick Leave, Karen Heuler
The Artist in the House of Ham, Beth Kephart Sulit
Count Baldi’s Letter, Frank Michel

Poetry

Guest Editor: Stuart Dybek

In Daylight, Stuart Dischell
Sunday Dinner, Stuart Dischell
The Spider, Stuart Dischell
No Moon, Nancy Eimers
A Night Without Stars, Nancy Eimers
The Difference, Hayden Carruth
In the Long Hall, Hayden Carruth, Translations by Art Beck
Ancient Teaching, Stephen Dobyns
What They Do Always, Stephen Dobyns
Homeric Offering, Stephen Dobyns
Sketching Hector’s Eye, Stephen Dobyns
Sleeping Beauty:An Alternative Reading, Paulette Roeske
Miasma, Amy Gerstler
Dog World, Amy Gerstler
Blur, Amy Gerstler
The Laughter of Women, Lisel Mueller
Rage, Reginald Gibbons
Khartoum Dinner Light, Terese Svoboda
Library, D.C. Berry
Youths Adrift in a New Germany Turn to Neo-Nazis, David Breskin
A Small Boy, Your Son, David Breskin
Two Preludes, James McManus
This Dance, John Rybicki
Aliens, Kim Addonizio
Tell Me, Kim Addonizio
Flood, Kim Addonizio
Salmon, Kim Addonizio
Target, Kim Addonizio