the Review
 
Issue Number 26 - Fall 2004

 
Editorial Comment Highlights
 
In the first poem of this fall's issue, Evguenia Paramanova says of writing, "I often dread the nakedness of it--Paper glaring with bony whiteness." Good writing is a kind of undressing, a kind of self-exposure that we begin to dread as soon as we learn we should dread it... Evguenia knows, as every writer knows, how difficult it is to expose our personal truths, even when, as Emily Dickinson says, we sometimes "tell the truth but tell it slant."

Some of the stories and poems in this fall issue look straight on, unblinking at tough issues with all their flies and maggots and machetes. Other pieces in this issue take the "slant" point of view: they take us on imaginative journeys that expose the strangeness of a world where "mountains burn like parchment int he backyard" or where we find the freshest juiciest starfish in the Gobi."

The naked truth is that all of these poems and stories expose the geography of the heart; they touch us precisely because they aren't afraid to look, from afar or close up, at the truth in all its stark beauty or ugliness.
 

"She'd promised her father that if there were enough snow, she would build a mini snow version of the Eiffel Tower in the backyard, to make him feel at home."

Skipping, by Chantelle Aquino

 
Table of Contents
 
cover art: untitled by Dominique Rabideau
fiction
  

Claire Laville

 Jim's Biological Clock Short-Circuits
Danielle Hubbard

Abduction
Kathleen Nishimoto Sky Answers
Dominique Rabideau The Sounding
Sara Doskow Different Parts of the Same Bed
Samantha Wilde The Guy in the Black Fedora
  Impressions
Elisabeth Thomas Wonder
Shannon Corregan Socorro
Bronwyn Craigie Break On Through
Jonathan Rickard Nine to Five
   
poetry  
Evguenia Paramanova Writing
Claire Battershill Heaven
  Going Commando
Shannon Waters No Africa
  Why I cannot be expected to write poetry
Stephanie Glover Don't Forget Your Whistle
  The Lesson
Shannon Corregan The Pulse of Water
  The Pirate Monologues, Nice, Room 305
Leanna Wong Lemon Meringue
Adrienne Renton Spreading Ashes
Victoria Novak Just Before The Blackout
Danielle Hubbard Around the Turtles Is Urgent
  Richard, Troy and I
Dominique Rabideau CAPS, LOCK
Phillippa Houghton Schoolgirls
Yannic Wolfe past tense
Gabrielle Santa-Donato Grandpa And His Wheelchair
Alice Costas My Father Grew Tulips
Julie MacFarlane October, 1917
Meredith Lewis My Family Is A Fridge Magnet
Ashley Altman Leaves and Ashes
Kimi Yap The Blood Red River Runs
Leanna Wong Learning Our Language
Meredith Lewis Utah Years
Claire Battershill Insomnia
Jeremy Hanson-Finger The Two Bars of Tied B# Notes Generation
Danielle Hubbard Chinese Twins
Dunja Lukic the dusk people
Taylor Leedahl Grass needs leaves for insulation but you need your garden hobbies, fall clean up, and excuse for the ocean
Sarah Obee Ludwig's Theatre
Robin Plasterer Two White Wings
Adrienne Renton Playing Dolls
Shannon Waters Tuscan Summer
Shannon Wiebe Language of Remembered Positions
   
visual arts  
Sara Doskow Four Photographs
   
miscellaneous  
P.Young and E.Crane Judges' Comments - Fiction
W.Morton and J.Rusesky Judges' Comments - Poetry
Melanie Paget Interview with John Gould
Notes on Contributors  
 
 
   
 
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