Ontario Review Volume 68 Spring/Summer 2008 Article 2 June 2014 Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication to Raymond Smith; Contents Follow this and additional works at: http://repository.usfca.edu/ontarioreview Recommended Citation (2014) "Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication to Raymond Smith; Contents," Ontario Review: Vol. 68, Article 2. Available at: http://repository.usfca.edu/ontarioreview/vol68/iss1/2 For more information, please contact southerr@usfca.edu.
* O n t a r i o R e v i e w FALL 1974 - SPRING 2008 Visit our website: www.ontarioreview.com No. 68 Spring/Summer 2008 Princeton, NJ Published by USF Scholarship: a digital repository @ Gleeson Library Geschke Center, 2014
Editor RAYMOND J. SMITH Associate Editor JOYCE CAROL OATES Contributing Editors RUSSELL BANKS DANIEL HALPERN BRADFORD MORROW ALICIA OSTRIKER CHASE TWICHELL EDMUND WHITE This is the final issue of Ontario Review. No more submissions will be accepted. Other correspondence can be directed to ONTARIO REVIEW 9 Honey Brook Drive Princeton, New Jersey 08540 Indexed in American Humanities Index, Index of American Periodical Verse, Literary Criticism Register, MLA International Bibliography, and Poem Finder. Copyright 2008 by The Ontario Review, Inc. All rights reserved. ISSSN 0316-4055 Distributed by Ingram Periodicals, 18 Ingram Blvd., La Vergne, TX 37086-7000. Printed in the U.S.A. by Thomson-Shore Type by Doug Hagley Cover: Matthew Daub, Foundry watercolor, 30"x22" 2006 private collection http://repository.usfca.edu/ontarioreview/vol68/iss1/2
Ontario Review Fall 1 9 7 4 - S p r i n g 2008 This final issue of Ontario Review is dedicated to the memory of its devoted and idealistic editor, my beloved husband R A Y M O N D S M I T H (1930-2008). It was Raymond's dream to establish a North American Journal of the Arts in which American and Canadian writers would be published side by side. Originally begun in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, where Raymond and I were on the faculty of the English Department of the University of Windsor, Ontario Review was moved to Princeton, New Jersey in fall 1978, when I joined the creative writing faculty of Princeton University. Since that time, OR has expanded its contributors to include writers from many countries though our base has continued to remain in North America. It is with much sorrow and regret that I must announce the termination of the Ontario Review with this spring 2008 issue, which Raymond had completed editing shortly before his sudden death on February 17,2008. Hospitalized in Princeton, New Jersey, Raymond died of complications following pneumonia. He had no anticipation that he would not be returning home within a few days to finalize this issue. As an editor, Raymond was tireless, idealistic, and ever-hopeful. He took great pleasure in working with longtime OR contributors like Matthew Daub, Albert Goldbarth, Dick Allen, Sheila Kohler, Joan Murray, and Michael Goldman, among others, and enormous pleasure in publishing newcomers like L.E. Usher, Matthew Dulany, Edith Pearlman, Karl Jirgens, our award-winning Stellar Kim, and many others over the decades. We will all miss Ray very much. Joyce Carol Oates Princeton, New Jersey March 12, 2008 Published by USF Scholarship: a digital repository @ Gleeson Library Geschke Center, 2014
CONTENTS PERSONAL ESSAY Greg Johnson, "Remembering Ray Smith" 7 FICTION Stellar Kim, "Afterglow" 13 David Joiner, "Like Smoke" from Burning Green Sun 28 Andrea Marcusa, "Donors" 41 L.E. Usher, "Susie on a Sunday" 60 Matthew Dulany, "Maternity Leave" 82 Adam Braver, "The Oath of Office" 107 Wally Lamb, "From The Hour I First Believed" 118 Edith Pearlman, "The Little Wife" 128 Sheila Kohler, "Night at the Grand Hotel" 146 Karl Jirgens, "Watch. Watching" 156 Mary Marsh, "Interior Design" 167 POETRY Albert Goldbarth, "The Thin Glass Stems of Insertion," "To This" 25 Anita Barrows, "Poem in Time of War, 2006" 73 Elizabeth Murawski, "Minghun," "Hearts," "Lament" 79 John Kinsella, "Rapture: South Branch Mortlock River, Doodenanning," "Canto of the Dry River Empyrean (30)," "Rapture 6: The Crescent of Little Beach" 103 Robert Cording, "Chances" 114 Dick Allen, "As Sure as Night Is Dark and Day Is Light," "Slights" 125 http://repository.usfca.edu/ontarioreview/vol68/iss1/2
CONTENTS Michael Goldman, "For a Moment You Are Nowhere," "Flag," "Nut," "Window" 142 Joan Murray, "What Was Expected," "Tomma and Sandy" 153 Tracy Jo Barnwell, "Hare Song," "Descent" 162 Ronald Wallace, "Mrs. Grossheim/s, 1955," "Never Again" 165 Jeff Friedman, "Bust," "Working in Flour" 170 Paula Bohince, "Mechanical Horse with Girl and Bees" 174 Denver Butson, "The Amusement Park of Natural Disasters" 176 WATERCOLORS by Matthew Daub 65 Afternoon Shower: Jackson, Wyoming; Old 22; February Night; Walnuttown, Pennsylvania; Elm Street: Late Afternoon; Hex Highway; Bridge; Gifts CONTRIBUTORS 178 Published by USF Scholarship: a digital repository @ Gleeson Library Geschke Center, 2014