Leaving home is a dangerous business. Whether it's to walk across the street or travel to another continent, one never returns the same. This issue explores in fiction and poetry the fascinating, complex process of defamiliari- zation as the ultimate path to knowing oneself.
AN ANATOMY OF ROADS: THE QUEST ISSUE
SPRING 2005
Edited by Bradford Morrow
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John Barth, I've Been Told: A Story's Story
Elizabeth Hand, Kronia
Jon McGregor, The First Thing That Happened
Julia Elliott, The Camp Counselor
Forrest Gander, Mission Thief
Jonathan Carroll, Home on the Rain
Sara Veglahn, Two Fictions
Arthur Sze, The Double Helix
Robert Coover, Sir John Paper Returns to Honah-Lee
David Schuman, Miss
Joanna Scott, From Liberation
Bradford Morrow, Gardener of Heart
Rikki Ducornet, Three Tales
Nathaniel Mackey, Two Poems
Alai, Two Stories
Susan Steinberg, Hydroplane
Toby Olson, Two Poems
Rebecca Curtis, To the Interstate
Joshua Furst, Lonely Planet
Joyce Carol Oates, From The Gravedigger's Daughter
Paul West, Slow Mergers of Local Stars
D. E. Steward, Satembre
Carol Moldaw, The Widening
Frederic Tuten, Voyagers
Carole Maso, Young H Saved from Infamy
Robert Kelly, Walking to Auschwitz
Deb Olin Unferth, Malaria
Robert Antoni, At the End of the Road
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A Fiction & Poems by Nine Poets
William H. Gass, The Piano Lesson
Richard Meier, Nine Poems
Martine Bellen, Two Poems for Miyazaki
Brian Lucas, Blaze
Lara Glenum, Three Poems
Elizabeth Willis, Six Poems
James Grinwis, Nine Poems
John Taggart, Three Poems
Rae Armantrout, Four Poems
Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Draft LXX: Lexicon