NDQ
North Dakota Quarterly

                                    
Volume 72, Number 1 and 2                                             Winter/Spring 2005

Special Belle-Lettres Issue
Contents
     Murzban F. Shroff

7

The Kitemaker’s Dilemma (story)
James Scully

35

Donatello’s Version (poem)
Robert Bagg
38

Niké: for Richard Wilbur; Clyde Torrey; An Ancient Quarrel; and Horsegod (poems)
Raja Alem
47

The Name of the Gentlest Wind (story)

Madeline DeFrees

61

“After great pain, a formal feeling comes” and High Idle (poems)

Jill Mancina
64

Fishes’ Universe and Squashed (poems)

Stuart Bloodworth
84

June 21; Sunday Afternoons; Uncle Paul’s Not Yet Close to Drunk; Spring Semester; and Raking Pine Needles (poems)
Shelagh C. Shapiro

89

Special Powers (story)
Barry Ballard

103

Rumplestiltskin (poem)
Ian Blake Newman

104

Losers Weepers (story)
Margaret Lamb

121

Landscape with Family Trees (story)
E. A. Axelberg

131

Confluence and Reclamation (poems)
Curtis Smith

133

Between Sound and Noise (story)
Stephanie Waxman

147

The Outing (story)
Clarence Wolfshohl

150

In the Heartland and The Bluebird in My Heart (poems)
John J. McCann

152

Solace (story)
Janet Flora

165

Banging on Doors (story)
Jason Schossler

176

Mosquitoes and Mud Cakes (poems)
Andrew Kaplan

179

The Unauthorized Guinness: Five World Records (story)
Gail Louise Siegel

186

Waterfalls (story)   
W. K. Buckley

199

Red Bronze and We Are in One Nest (poems)
Thomas Sheehan

201

Listening for the Dead (poem)
Greg Jenkins

202

The Gray Suite (story)
Jeff Hardin

212

Target Practice; Before His Final Day; and An Etymology of Sorts (poems)

Karen Heuler

215

Oooh (story)
J. Lorraine Brown

226

The Yellow House; The Girl Next Door; and Spring Sonnet (poems)
John Allman

230

American Lives (review-essay)









Reviews
Gretchen Chesley Lang
240

Duane Champagne and Ismael Abu-Saad, eds., The Future of Indigenous Peoples: Strategies for Survival and  Development
Denise Low

244

Fred Whitehead, ed., Don Gordon: Collected Poems
Bill Christophersen
247
Christopher Beach, The Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Poetry; Jordan Smith, For Appearances; Terry Blackhawk, Escape Artist; Vona Groarke, Flight; Walt McDonald, Climbing the Divide; and Dick Allen, The Day Before
Anis Shivani
260

Stephen Dunn, Local Visitations
Erik Nakjavani
264

Jim Harrison, The Raw and the Cooked: Adventures of a Roving Gourmand
Jill Barnum

272

Jonis Agee, Acts of Love on Indigo Road: New and Selected Stories
Lisa Trochman

274

Maryemma Graham, ed., The Cambridge Companion to the African American Novel
Chuck Kimmerle

276

Laura Wilson, Avedon at Work in the American West
George Slanger

279

Ian Ker, The Catholic Revival in English Literature, 1845-1961
John M. Edwards

282

Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel
Susan Koprince

284

Jerrold Casway, Ed Delahanty in the Emerald Age of Baseball  
Robert W. Lewis

286

Mark Phillips, My Father’s Cabin
Editor’s Notes

289


Contributors

291












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