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HAYDEN'S FERRY REVIEW

FALL/WINTER 1999 ISSUE 25

 

Table of Contents

 

Fiction

 

Chris Fink
Farmer and Farmer's Radio [11]

Ann Cummins
Headhunter [25]

Cynthia Anderson
About the House [43]

Dennis McFadden
Reinventing Francie [59]

David Peterson
Fall Catalog [78]

Robert Wilder
Solid [94]

 

Poetry

 

Vandan Khanna
Elephant God [8]

Simon Perchik
D113 [9]

Cullen Bailey Burns
Hunting Trip, 1929, T. Bailey [10]

Lisa Yanover
In Praise of Yiddish [20]

Michael Burkard
Mathematical Angel [22]
Sweet Father, Sweet Moon [23]
Unappreciated Butterfly [71]

Rob Cook
Last Days [24]

Maurice Manning
Eclipse [37]

Bob Hicok
backward poem [38]

Jane Hirshfield
The Contract [40]
All Summer You Kept Trying to Answer [41]

Virgil Suarez
Teremotos: in the Land of Earthquakes [42]

Forrest Hamer
Incarnate [48]

Laura Jensen
The Aribtrary Camera [49]
A Pile of Shells [50]
FaÁade [51]
Negative Shapes [52]

Rebecca Aronson
Aubade for an Ordinary Day [54]

Marta Boswell
Starting Over [55]

Michael Murray
Piss Christ in Australia [56]

Jeff Hardin
Flute [57]

Dale M. Kushner
Vows [58]

D. Nurkse
Day Labor at Land-O-Lakes [70]

Michael Dumanis
The Refraction [72]

Matt Shindell
The Willow [73]

Patricia Ann Nagy
Amor Mundi [74]

Michael Van Walleghen
Primitives [89]

Joshua Corey
Almanac [93]

 

Art

 

Editor's note: This issue of Hayden's Ferry Review  features contemporary posters in which traditional printmaking techniques are the main method of production.  The posters were printed in small editions using techniques and materials that are, for the most part, commercially obsolete.  Using antique wood type, recycled photo-engravings, hand-cut linoleum or wood blocks, or traditional silkscreen; these artists honor the graphic traditions of the past in works that are exciting and innovative.  The contributors include four small presses: MKimberly Press, Yee-Haw Industries, Hatch Show Print, and The silver Buckle Press, as well as two design shops: Alliance Grahpics and Planet Design Company.

Kevin Bradley
Inflatable Sex Machine [106]
The Impeachment Show [107]
Evel Kenievel [108]

Jos Sances
Dia de los Muertos [109]

Mare Blocker
Fireproof Girls [110]

Silver Buckle Press
Sliver Buckle Press Summer Poster [112]

Planet Design Company
Season Promotion Poster for American Players Theater [113]

 

Prentice Hall Student Writing Contest

 

Corinna Vallianatos
The God of Food [115]

Mary L. Tabor
Sine Die [116]

Meredith Mundy Wasinger
Homecoming [131]

Lora Lyn Worden
The Bear Valley Children's Home [132]

Lidia Torres
Spirit Boat [143]

Michael Pauly
In Good Time [144]

 

Contributors [157]

Hayden's Ferry Review Issue 25 Cover

 

Issue 25 Staff

 

Managing Editor
Salima Keegan

Assistant Managing Editor
Lisa Petty

Poetry Editors
Julie Parker
Rashid Robinson

Fiction Editors
Michael Guerra
Richard Yanez

Art Editor
Emily Muschinske

Editorial Advisor
Melissa Pritchard

Associate Editors
Thomas Bonfiglio
Mary-Catherine Ferguson
Andrea Foege
Mark Garrigan
Tim Hohmann
Tayari Jones
Boyd A. Jorden
Michael Murphy
Sean M. Nevin
Lisa Petty
Maythee Rojas
Elissa Minor Rust
Sarah Trudell
Maureen White

Editorial Assistants
Alicia Coury
B. Brady Crace
Stephanie Reeves
Serene T. Santi
Taylor Usher

Copy Editors
Heather Marie Hoyt
Thea Kuticka
Kevin Vaughan-Brubaker

Prentice Hall Editors
Fiction: Heather Marie Hoyt
Poetry: Jorn Ake

 

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Poetry Selection – Michael Burkard, Mathematical Angel

Don't have any proof of this.
Do have rain,
Things around the room: a harmonica
(blue and small),
a photograph of you much too far
away, lamp, desk, tapes,
shoes, memories of shoes, papers
from various stores and receipts
to draw upon or write upon,
algebraic tables which appear
obsolete, sunlight which is
hastening rain's end and obsolete
memories,--this is not where
I was headed.

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Fiction Selection – From Dennis McFadden's Reinventing Francie

"My da always told me I'd end up on a scaffold one day," Declan says.

Martin murmurs the old song: "'Whether on Scaffold high, or the battlefield we die--'" More than once he has considered God's sense of humor in this matter, his climbing a scaffold nearly every day of his life when so many Irish rebels before him climbed a scaffold of a different sort on the last day of theirs. This one is made of pipes and planks, clinging to a grand house on a mountainside above Olean, New York, not far from the Pennsylvania border. Borders have been a big part of his life too: imaginary one enslaving his homeland, and the one he crossed in the trunk of a car to begin a new life in the land of the free. Today he considers God's sense of direction as well, the convoluted paths by which he and Declan have traveled separately from the back streets of Belfast where they were Volunteers in the Army together to the woods above Olean nearly twenty years on. Now Declan has become a respected politician, a Sinn Fein Councilor. And Francie has become Martin Browne.

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