ISSUES | spring 1997
20.1 (Spring 1997)
Featuring winners of the 1997 Editor’s Prize and work by Samuel Atlee, Walter Bargen, Jamie Callan, William Greenway, William Harrison, Laura Henrikson, William Holtz, Ron Johnson, Willoughby Johnson, Anthony Burke Lee, Deena Linnett, Anne Miano, G.K. Wuori, and an interview with Lewis Nordan.
CONTENT FROM THIS ISSUE
Poetry
Mar 01 1997
The Tom McAfee Discovery Feature: Deena Linett
“MaryClare Writes to Us from Uist, 1730”
“Alma Rose Writes From St Kilda, 1884”
“Mary Angela Rose Writes From St Kilda, 1903”
“Barbara Rose Writes from South Uist, 1943″
‘Mairi MacIntyre Writes from St Kilda, 1994″
‘Mairi’s Journal, 8 August”
“You Go Back”
“Mairi’s Journal – August”
“Eventually They Come Ashore”
Interviews
Mar 01 1997
An Interview with Lewis Nordan
Fiction
Mar 01 1997
E-Z-Roll
Just now, Farris is in the computer room showing off a glamour shot of his daughter. She looks like an ad for an escort service, a ponderous wonderbra-ed decolletage welling up around her feather boa. There is a stamped foil signature in one corner of the picture. She is thirteen, and Farris is a proud papa.
Poetry
Mar 01 1997
Poetry Feature: Walter Bargen
“Lost Ordnance”
“Calculations”
“Berlin Airlift”
Fiction
Mar 01 1997
Krishna's Kid Ivory
The full text of this story is not currently available online.
Nonfiction
Mar 01 1997
Two Fingers
My father died under the surgeon’s knife on the morning of June 12, 1957, one day short of his forty-seventh birthday. He had been obviously and continuously ill for three years, and in that time we had finally come to understand the occasional frightening spells of weakness that would clamp down on him in the years of his manhood. Sometime as a child he had contracted rheumatic fever; it had damaged the mitral valve of his heart, constricting the flow of blood and overburdening the heart muscle. After years of abuse, the heart was failing.
Fiction
Mar 01 1997
Butterfly's Cutlass Supreme
When I was fourteen I got burned in a drug deal by a guy named Butterfly and when I went back to take care of it, one thing led to another and I ended up in jail.
Fiction
Mar 01 1997
Digby Fair
Danielle came up to me at the school and told me she had $87,000 in the bank and that she had dual citizenship, American and Canadian. This was at her high school in Nova Scotia, near where they’d recently filmed The Scarlet Letter. People were pretty proud of that, so I didn’t say that it had been a dog in the States, a real snoozer.
Poetry
Mar 01 1997
Poetry Feature: William Greenway
“The Train to Neath”
“At Arthur’s Stone”
“Teeth Will Be Provided”
“Footpaths”
“Now That It’s Over”
Fiction
Mar 01 1997
I Do Believe in Ghosts, I Do, I Do, I Do
Honestly, I do. No, actually, I don’t. Well, I”m not really sure anymore. There was a time when I was completely sure about these things. That’s when I walked into the old RKO building on the Paramount lot and got my first Hollywood job.
Nonfiction
Mar 01 1997
Women's Work: A Memoir
Winner of the 1997 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize for Non-Fiction A man’s work is from sun to sun, But a woman’s work is never done. When I was… read more
Fiction
Mar 01 1997
The Oboist
My apartment sits above a liquor store in a questionable part of town. I delight in telling this because it suggests a degree of daring, a worldliness I cannot claim, as though I keep a Harley out back or red shoes in my closet. I fantasize that I will one day be as fascinating as my apartment, but this is unlikely.
Fiction
Mar 01 1997
Two Cars in a Cornfield
There were eight of us, and we all worked hard in our high school classes, played on the same teams and kept things normal with outsiders, including our parents, so our secret stayed intact.
Poetry
Mar 01 1997
The Tom McAfee Discovery Feature: Laura Henrikson
“For My Lover In Defense of My Whorishness”
“Thanatos”
“Eros”
“While You Work Under Florescent”
“Cicada”
“Dragonfly: Nymph”
“Cricket”
“A Small City Garden”