ISSUES | spring 2004

27.1 (Spring 2004)
Featuring the winners of the 2004 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize and work by Mary Jean Babic, Linda Bamber, Brock Clarke, Elton Glaser, Luisa Igloria, Armand ML Inezian, Charles Martin Kearney, Danielle Ofri, Nic Pizzolatto, Jeffrey Skinner…and an interview with Albert Goldbarth.
CONTENT FROM THIS ISSUE

Nonfiction
Mar 01 2011
A Vocabulary for My Senses
After six months at language school in northern Ethopia, we finally moved south to our first mission station. Father, whose career as a doctor had been on hold, was posted to a hospital near the town of Soddo, in Wallayta district. There, we occupied a real house instead of a temporary apartment.

Foreword
Mar 01 2004
Foreword: Kali and the Bee Women
Recently, after having reread the contents of this Editors’ Prize Issue for TMR, I took a break by turning on the TV for a half hour of channel surfing.

Fiction
Mar 01 2004
Dog Story
She was remembering a time she and her husband had taken a child to the circus. There had been clowns and animals and pink-shirted bareback riders, and the little girl had decided she would herself become a circus performer when she grew up.

Poetry
Mar 01 2004
Poetry Feature: Elton Glaser
Featuring the poems: Blizzard near Emporia, 1893 Between Matins and the Late Alarm Plain Talk in a Beaver Hat Regression Analysis

Poetry
Mar 01 2004
Poetry Feature: Jude Nutter
Featuring the poems: Horses The Rest of Us To The Reader The Last Supper Horses Still, the horses are beautiful and their grace keeps me occupied. -Linda Hogan We… read more

Fiction
Mar 01 2004
Family Planning
Instead of the gold-plated onion domes Josie had hoped for, the view from their room revealed only the grimy, cement backside of the Oktyabrskaya metro station, where a few merchants had set up tables selling flimsy newsprint magazines bearing pictures of naked women.

Nonfiction
Mar 01 2004
Maps and Dreaming
Suzanne and I were nearing the end of a journey together that had taken us overland through Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. On the front steps of a hotel in New Delhi I waited for a taxi among shirtless, mostly sleeping baggage men.

Fiction
Mar 01 2004
Why People Say Two Thousand
My mother and husband died nineteen days apart, and the next time I put on shoes it was four months later. The cable was disconnected, yellowing newspapers were logjammed on the porch and Brisket and Chervil had hunkered down with Sonya next door in the name of reliable food.

Poetry
Mar 01 2004
Poetry Feature: Jeffrey Skinner
Featuring the poems: My Father’s Brain Lucky Day The Three Temptations of My Father The Adirondacks Black Olives

Fiction
Mar 01 2004
Concerning Lizzie Borden, Her Axe, My Wife
On Friday my wife, Catrine, kicked me out of the house. On the following Thursday she called me at my room in the Budget Inn and said, “I want you to come with me to the Lizzie Borden House and Bed and Breakfast in Fall River, Massachusetts.”

Fiction
Mar 01 2004
Bringing Ararat
On the Friday that they received the money from his father, Harrut had gone for a swim. He got off work in the early afternoon, stripped to his boxer shorts and dove, crashing through some shallow waves, into the sea.

Nonfiction
Mar 01 2004
Living Will
Wilbur Reston was already in the intensive care unit of the tiny Florida hospital when I arrived at 2:30 A.M. I had been doing a series of temp jobs after having completed my medical residency at New York City’s Bellevue Hospital and now found myself in a small town on the Gulf Coast.

Fiction
Mar 01 2004
1987, The Races
Oaklawn dwarfed them, white and haughty as a plantation, four tall stories with flags waving out front. Police directed traffic around the building, blowing their whistles in its shadow. His father drove an entirely red car that was eleven years old.

Interviews
Mar 01 2004
An Interview With Albert Goldbarth
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Poetry
Mar 01 2004
Poetry Feature: Luisa Igloria
Featuring the poems: Field Planted to Winter Grass The Return Trill and Mordent Mandorla