AQR - Vol. 21, No. 3 & 4 Fall/Winter 2004

About the Cover

“Soul Rising” is a walrus ivory sculpture by Susie Silook, a sculptor and writer currently living in Anchorage. She received an Alaska Governor’s Arts Award in 2000 and, most recently, an Eiteljorg Fellowship from the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis. Her work has been featured in American Indian Art Magazine, and her sculpture is housed in museums and in many private and corporate collections.

©2004 Chris Arend

Table of Contents

Short Stories

The Weight of the World, Yelizaveta P. Renfro
The Pretty People Dancing, Gretchen Comba
Bad Skin, Mark Wisniewski
Company of Strangers, Aryn Kyle
How Is This Night Different from Any Other?, Kim Brooks
Half Waikiki, Jane Eaton Hamilton
Language of Flowers, Vicki Rakowski
Where the Egg Is, Elizabeth Harris Behling
As Is, Will Boast
Tugboat to Traverse City, Darrin Doyle
The Behavior of Sea Creatures, Bradford Tice

Novella

The Honor Farm, Ann Stapleton

Special Feature

The Hideous, the Sublime, and the Literary Translator, Edith Grossman

Photo Essay

AIDS in Guyana, Nikki Kahn

Drama

Blue and Darker Blue, Steven Schutzman

Poetry

The Queen of Bar-B-Que Egypt, Quentin Sherwood
On the Use of the Decorative, Anne Pitkin
The One About the Wolf, Maggie Smith
from The Silk Road: Marco Polo’s Wife, Daneen Wardrop
The Laughing Buddha, Jeanne Emmons
Angles Rather Than Angels, John Morgan
Compass Rose, Donald Platt
Don’t Try, Virgil Suárez
Jesús of Tourette’s Syndrome, Virgil Suárez
My John Donne, Kurt Olsson
The Fury of Escaped Blood, Kurt Brown
Manportable Grail, Brian Turner
Driving Toward the Sun, David Hernandez
Climbing to 2000 Feet Over Buckland, Alaska, Susanna Mishler
In the Time It Takes, Susan Hutton
In July, Marilyn Abildskov
Lavender Dress, Maureen Clark
In the Pines, Paula Bohince
American Gothic, Bryan D. Dietrich
Married Couple, Singing, Eva Saulitis
The Bath, Holly Hughes
Resumé, Edward Weismiller
Remainders, Edward Weismiller