Alaska Quarterly Review Vol. 25 No. 1 & 2
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Read in May, 2008
I have to admit my interest in this was mainly, "ALASKA has a literary journal?!," but once I got past my initial condescension this turned out to be a pretty decent selection of writing (though when you're publishing twice a year it may be time to stop referring to yourself as "quarterly"). Fully half the issue is poetry, which I traditionally have never liked and, with the exception of a few stand-outs, there wasn't much in this section, guest edited by Jane Hirshfield, to...more
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Read in May, 2008
The poetry was good, a few pages have been earmarked in my copy. I wasn't too impressed with the fiction this time around. I've noticed a common theme in the non-fiction throughout all of the AQR's I've read this time around: they really like to publish essays having to do with sickness, death, and dying.
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