1997 QAE Prize in Prose Venom Patricia Fuentes The Mails Between Here and New Guinea William DiNome Amelia Earhart The Ronzoni Madonna Little Ice Age Maureen Seaton The Catheter Series Bonnie Bladder Even a Good Curse Should Not Last Forever What Lavinia Found In Her Sister's Room Vivian Shipley Caribou Michael David Brown Introduction to Universal Psycholinguistics I Technique Robert Percham Stop Stephanie Dickinson Indio None Candice C. Davis Nepenthe Garret Jon Groenveld By Jude Jean McCramack Goddamnit to Hell Dogs's Foot: the unappeasable Mrs. Vittitow C. D. Wright The Garden Room Robert Wilder The Cheeks by Themselves Thomas Russell Gillian by Herself Elegy for One Cat Wendy Bishop Letter to Frezzo Letter to Rackin David Barratier The german for it, the French Daniel Callis Sometimes in Silence Peggy M. Woods Sleeping on a Door Donald Morrill | | Sandbar and Leaf: A Photo Essay John Haines The Highlander David Witherspoon Power Outage Jamie Granger Old Iron Reg Saner Promises of the Storm Kim Jensen The Daphne Photograph Nathaniel Tarn & Janet Rodeny excerpts from The Road to Ocosingo Andrew Schelling The Challenge of Styles Jin Di excerpts from Who Lets Go First Gian Lombardo Cy Twombly Francis Bacon Mark Cunningham excerpts from Cambio del Estado Rafael Courtoisie (translated by Joseph Richey) Triad Eden Elieff The Organ-Loft Lady Emerges from the Church with Wind-Stop Eyes Frank Van Zant A Dictation Barbara DeCesare Reply Windows and Letters Kathleen McGookey an excerpt from Letters, 1969-71 Jack Matthews & Edward Dahlberg In Jenna's Room Jessica Jordon Nudel Self-Examination Victoria Carlson Why But to Awe Amy Newman Haints Mary Speece |