General 1 — Alaska Quarterly Review

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Majestic Waterfall, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska.
© 2012 by Clark James Mishler

AQR Vol. 29, No. 1 & 2, Spring/Summer 2012

Table of Contents

Editor’s Note

30th Anniversary, Ronald Spatz

Fiction

Absorption, Sarah Scoles
Big Enough for Slaughter, Colleen Curran
The Dinner Party, Sarah Blackman
Stars, James Gordon Bennett
Good Neighbors, Viet Dinh

Poetry

Will They Be Waiting, Nancy Eimers
Bird Kill, Nancy Eimers
After My Sorrow, Ellen Bass
Jews for Jesus, Valerie Bandura
Carnage, Valerie Bandura
Without Snow, Melanie McCabe
Adam Reports from the Distant Future, Sean Bishop
Black Hole Owners’ Association, Sean Bishop
Secret Fellow Sufferers, Sean Bishop
Secret Fellow Sufferers, Once More, Sean Bishop
“Die High”, Dana Roeser
Mercy Ship, Josh Kalscheur
A Fair Deal, Josh Kalscheur
Restore, Josh Kalscheur
Montage Obscura, Cynthia Atkins
Cemetery Compost, Murray Reiss
November Tritina, Kathleen Flenniken
In the Desert, Marge Piercy
The Funambulist, David Moolten
Lilith, Happily, Janet McNally
Blackout, David Hernandez
Teaching the Midget Team the Suicide Squeeze, Kevin Boyle
Counting the Cash Drawer at the D&J Bar, John Bargowski
Teabags, Robert Levy
A Human Throat, Richard Lyons
Almost, Victoria Kelly
The Messengers, Victoria Kelly
Help, Jill Osier
How to Photograph the Imagination, Jennifer Chapis
Preparation for an Elegy, Jeanne Wagner
Like Pilgrims, Jeanne Wagner

Special Feature

“Liberty and Justice (for All): A Global Photo Mosaic”

Guest Editor, Benjamin J. Spatz

Introduction to “Liberty and Justice (for All)”, Benjamin J. Spatz

Special Feature

Dedication to Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros, Feature Excerpts and Contributors, Adam Ferguson, Agnès Dherbeys, Akintunde Akinleye, Alan Chin, Alex Masi , Alixandra Fazzina, Ami Vitale, Andrea Bruce, Andrew McConnell, Andrew Testa, Ashley Gilbertson, Athit Perawongmetha, Barbara Davidson, Benjamin J. Spatz, Benjamin Lowy, Bill Hess, Brandon Thibodeaux, Brenda Ann Kenneally, Brendan Hoffman, Carol Guzy, David Burnett, David Hartman, Dominic Bracco II, Dominic Nahr, Ed Kashi, Elizabeth Dalziel, Emmanuel Santos, Eric Bouvet, Farah Nosh, Finbarr O’Reilly, Gary Knight, Giles Duley, GMB Akash, Heidi Bradner, Jan Banning, Jodi Cobb, John Moore, John Stanmeyer, Jon Lowenstein, Karim Ben Khelifa, Katie Orlinsky, Lori Grinke, r Lynsey Addario, Marc Lester, Marcus Bleasdale, Mario Tama, Michael Kamber, Michael Robinson Chávez, Moises Saman, Natan Dvir, Newsha Tavakolian, Nina Berman, Pep Bonet, Peter DiCampo, Peter van Agtmael, Platon, Ramzi Haidar, Rick Loomis, Rodrigo Abd, Roger LeMoyne, Ron Haviv, Scott Strazzante, Spencer Platt, Stephanie Sinclair, Stephen Ferry, Teun Voeten, Todd Heisler, Yunghi Kim