Conjunctions: 44 / An Anatomy of Roads: The Quest Issue

Spring 2005

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I’ve Been Told: A Story’s Story
John Barth

Kronia
Elizabeth Hand

The First Thing That Happened
Jon McGregor

The Camp Counselor
Julia Elliott

Mission Thief
Forrest Gander

Home on the Rain
Jonathan Carroll

Two Fictions
Sara Veglahn

The Double Helix
Arthur Sze

Sir John Paper Returns to Honah-Lee
Robert Coover

Miss
David Schuman

From Liberation
Joanna Scott

Gardener of Heart
Bradford Morrow

Three Tales
Rikki Ducornet

Two Poems
Nathaniel Mackey

Two Stories
Translated by Chen Zeping, Translated by Karen Gernant and Alai

Hydroplane
Susan Steinberg

Two Poems
Toby Olson

To the Interstate
Rebecca Curtis

Lonely Planet
Joshua Furst

From The Gravedigger’s Daughter
Joyce Carol Oates

Slow Mergers of Local Stars
Paul West

Satembre
D. E. Steward

The Widening
Carol Moldaw

Voyagers
Frederic Tuten

Young H Saved from Infamy
Carole Maso

Walking to Auschwitz
Robert Kelly

Malaria
Deb Olin Unferth

At the End of the Road
Robert Antoni

The Piano Lesson
William H. Gass

Nine Poems
Richard Meier

Two Poems for Miyazaki
Martine Bellen

Blaze
Brian Lucas

Three Poems
Lara Glenum

Six Poems
Elizabeth Willis

Nine Poems
James Grinwis

Three Poems
John Taggart

Four Poems
Rae Armantrout

Draft LXX: Lexicon
Rachel Blau DuPlessis

Description

Conjunctions: 44, An Anatomy of Roads: The Quest Issue

Edited by Bradford Morrow

© 2005 by MapQuest.com, Inc.; used with permission.

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 defamiliarization as the ultimate path to knowing oneself.