About the Cover

Pioneer Peak towers over a farm house and barn near Palmer, Alaska.

©2008 Clark James Mishler

AQR Vol. 25, No. 1 & 2, Spring/Summer 2008

Table of Contents

Fiction

Nonfiction

Poetry

GUEST EDITOR, Jane Hirshfield

Second Tornado, David Baker
The Sixth Trumpet, Chana Bloch
The Daily News, Chana Bloch
An Onion, Robert Bly
Walking Out in the Morning, Robert Bly
Creeley, Thomas Centolella
Sunflower, Henri Cole
Childhood, Greg Delanty
Other Answers, Carl Dennis
For I Will Consider the Overlooked Dragonfly, Sharon Dolin
Apparition, Mark Doty
Excitement, Stephen Dunn
Lifework, Laura Fargas
Earth, this Firelit Lantern, Katie Ford
Dreaming at the Ballet, Jack Gilbert
South, Jack Gilbert
Neglecting the Kids, Jack Gilbert
Grandmother, Cleaning Rabbits, Samuel Green
The Pilot Light, Rachel Hadas
Epitaph for a Young Man, John Haines
Endearment, Tony Hoagland
The Truth, Tony Hoagland
The Loneliest Job in the World, Tony Hoagland
Captivity Narrative, Tony Hoagland
Ms. Veronina, Ilya Kaminsky
Oh, Mariachi Me, Ted Kooser
The Winking Vulva, Maxine Kumin
Make of Me, Lance Larsen
Western Lit, Dorianne Laux
Learning to Drive, Dorianne Laux
The Other Rhinoceros, Phillis Levin
Not a Prayer, Phillis Levin
Paradise Came Over Me Once, Anne Marie Macari
Before & After, Morton Marcus
Southwestern Suite, Stefanie Marlis
Anniversary, Linda McCarriston
L’Ancien Régime, Christopher Merrill
The Silence of the Mine Canaries, W. S. Merwin
Far Along in the Story, W. S. Merwin
Fire, Joseph Millar
Quail, Paul Muldoon
An Old Man, Leonard Nathan
Birding, Dennis O’Driscoll
Sibling Unrivalry, Sharon Olds
Winter Trees, Alicia Ostriker
Hiddenness, Michael Palmer
A Dozen Roses, Linda Pastan
Lilacs, Linda Pastan
Rachmaninoff’s Elegy, Linda Pastan
Shame, Robert Pinsky
Looking for My Father In Aix-en-Provence, Early March, Donald Platt
The Boy Who Became a Man with Pockets, Alberto Ríos
A Blind Astronomer in the Age of Stars, Pattiann Rogers
Bomb Fishing, Kay Ryan
The Goat, Umberto Saba
Marianna, Peter Dale Scott
Bugler, Ft. Wainwright, Alaska, Peggy Shumaker
Checklist, Peggy Shumaker
Save the Last Dance for Me, Gerald Stern
Savin Rock, Chase Twichell
Traveller, Jean Valentine
Fire, Rosanna Warren
Bison, Robert Wrigley
Flower, Robert Wrigley
In Praise of Spirit, Al Young
La Revancha del Tango, C. Dale Young