General 1 — Alaska Quarterly Review

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Light streams through the interior of a traditional Yup’ik kayak at the Alaska Native Heritage Center in Anchorage.

©2010 Clark James Mishler

AQR Vol. 27, No. 1 & 2, Spring/Summer 2010

Table of Contents

Special Feature

Innovative Fiction: 21 Writers
Introduction to “Innovative Fiction”, Amy Hempel
No One Will Ever Marry You, You Know, Patricia Lear
My Music, Lily Tuck
Fire in the Taxidermy Shop, Mi Ditmar
Girl, Peter Markus
The Woman with High Heels, Paola Peroni
El Paso, Daryl Scroggins
How the Past Returns, Daryl Scroggins
For the Record, Daryl Scroggins
The Ride Home from Church, Daryl Scroggins
Influences, Daryl Scroggins
What Remains, Daryl Scroggins
Footnote, Daryl Scroggins
Compost Conversion, Daryl Scroggins
Quarter, John Rybicki
Sell It Back to Me, Katie Arnold-Ratliff
Bricks, Robert Lopez
Hell on Church Street Blues, Robert Lopez
Chop Suey, Robert Lopez
The Turn Worming, Robert Lopez
Flesh, Michael Ahn
Up 58 South, Jamie Quatro
The End of Something, Nick Falgout
And the Harps Play Us Off, Nick Falgout
The Social Life of Mice, Megan Mayhew-Bergman
I Had It Out, Anna DeForest
The Last Day of Summer, James Donovan
Did You See Me See You?, Patricia Volk
An Unexpected Pleasure, Christopher Kennedy
Excerpts from Hall of Mirrors, Timothy Liu
Mirrors, Joe Stracci
The Day Before Christmas Eve, Joe Stracci
Success Story, Julia Slavin
We Are Not Shelter Men, Julia Slavin
Famous Last Words, Bernard Cooper

Nonfiction

How to Write a Good Sentence: A Manual for Writers Who Know How to Write Correct Sentences, Arnold G. Nelson

Poetry

The Love Hotel, Heather Kirn Lanier
The Peace Dome, Heather Kirn Lanier
Water Notes, Carolyn Stoloff
Dream of Early Life Beneath the Waves, Dan Stryk
The Rowboat, Michael Hettich
Old Sayings Apply in Here, Rob Talbert
Jumper, Rob Talbert
School Yard, Doug Ramspeck
The Fat Man Sings of Despair, George Looney
This Poem, Dan O’Brien
My Mother, at Six, Speaks to Me, Jeanne Emmons
Cutting Apples, Michael Salcman
Rubia Writes a Poem about Light for a Contest, Amy Groshek
The Sky I Die by Will be Grey, Todd Boss
The Death of a Scholar, Andrew Merton
Your Date with Death, Andrew Merton
The Mortician’s Fiancé, Sara McKinnon
Mass Grave at Shiloh, James Doyle
The May of Winter, Elizabeth Swados
Fight or Flight, Christine Butterworth-McDermott
Ultrasound Aubade, Amber Flora Thomas
Cavity in the Rubenesque Façade, Amber Flora Thomas
Meditation on Four West, Amber Flora Thomas