AQR - Vol. 16, No. 1 & 2, Intimate Voices, Ordinary Lives Stories of Fact and Fiction, Fall/Winter 1997

About the Cover

“Peeker,” a sculptural depiction of a seal surfacing by Alaskan Artist Alvin Amason, was presented to the Alaska Quarterly Review as part of its 1996 Governor’s Award for the Arts. Mr. Amason is nationally known for his colorful works depicting what he calls “Alaskan animals of the 20th century.”

©1997 Chris Arend

Table of Contents

Editor’s Note, Ronald Spatz
Inland, Christine Schutt
White Lunch, Valerie Mine
With Child, Christy Prahl
First Real Dance, Brooke Sanderson
Keria, Rita Plush
Woman on the Bed, Michael Wells
Listening for Bear, Jennifer Gilmore
A Story of Running Water, Leslie Leyland Fields
The Source, Elaine Romero
Brisket, Stuart Dybek
Choctawhatchee, Sharon Booker Brooks
Facts and Opinions, Heather Sellers
Numberology, Debra Levy
Wind, Joshua Harmon
Tossing Stones, Wendy Erd
Notes to a Veteran of a Foreign War, Jessica Roeder
Jesus Loves Bronwyn Goldstein, Deborah Burns
In Another Language, Edra Ziesk
Cake, Diane Williams
Coho Smith, Gary Holthaus
Vermeer’s Light, Judith Dancoff
This is Me, Lona Bretweiser, Leaving the Amusement Park of Love, Kate DiCamillo
Whistling through the Graveyard, Deborah Bayer
The One with the Heart, Jane Mullen
Putting Up Boat, Nancy Lord
Lost and Found, Robin Haas
The Weekend Girl, Marie Sheppard Williams