THIRTY six - Spring 2009
To be fair, of all the things to disappear, he was only the first. The shingles on the roof went soon after, then a shutter, then two, then the electricity, groceries, clean clothes, and somewhere along the way we lost her too. With the end of the war came the end of Mother's unflappable optimism. With nothing left to conquer, the world, it seemed, had conquered her.
- Aria Beth Sloss, We Were Hardly Angels
| Editorial | |
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| CHRISTINA THOMPSON | Editorial |
| Fiction | |
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| nic brown | Quickening |
| ARIA BETH SLOSS | We Were Hardly Angels |
| BARBARA HAMBY | Invasion of the Haoles |
| SARAH A. STRICKLEY | A Dark Turn |
| Essays | |
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| JOHN MATTHIAS | Poetry and Insonmnia |
| KATHRYN RHETT | In Transit |
| ANTONIA LLOYD-JONES | Problems and Solutions in the Golden English Langauge |
| RUTHANN ROBSON | A Couple of Questions Concerning Class Mobility |
| Poetry | |
|---|---|
| Scott cunningham | Undrowning Leica |
| Karin gottshall | Blink Once |
| teresa cader | Elsewhere |
| sherman alexie | Reading Light |
| peg boyers | Venezia: Brutto Tempo |
| will schutt | The Constant Visitor |
| terrance hayes | Snow for Wallace Stevens |
| steven cramer | On Hold |
| Ed Pavlic | Waking up in Chicago after Dream Song 29 |
| sonia sanchez | 21 Haiku |
| Evie shockley | owed to shirley chisholm: |
| Mahmound Darwish trans. Fady Joudah |
The "Red Indian's" Penultimate Speech to the White Man |
| tess taylor | Graveyard at Monticello |
| Graphics | |
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| judy pfaff | Light or Half Dark no. 01, 02 & 03 |
| bill jensen | Drunken Brush # 2, 11, 32, 38 |
| ann hamilton | untitled tropos · books |
| cai guo-qiang | Transient Rainbow Rebuilding the Berlin Wall Inverted Pyramid on the Moon Drawing for the Century with Mushroom Clouds The Century with Mushroom Clouds |
| michael mazur | Untitled Reflections Rain #2 Night Rain |
| Book Reviews |
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| Paula Bohince, Incident at the Edge of Bayonet Woods |
John Hennessy |
| Michael Dahlie, A Gentleman's Guide to Graceful Living |
David James Poissant |
| Forrest Gander, As a Friend: A Novel | J. T. Townley |
| Linda Gregg, All of It Singing: New and Selected Poems |
Henry Hughes |
| Olav H. Hauge, The Dream We Carry | Anis Shivani |
| Lars Gustafsson, A Time in Xanadu | Anis Shivani |
| Letters of Ted Hughes, Christopher Reid, ed. |
Heather Clark |
| Laila Lalami, Secret Son | Laura Albritton |
| New European Poets, Wayne Miller and Kevin Prufer, eds. |
Carmen Bugan |
| The New North: Contemporary Poetry from Northern Ireland, Chris Agee, ed. |
Heather Clark |
| The New Oxford Book of Literary Antidotes, John Gross, ed. |
Michael Shinagel |
| Andrew O'Hagan, The Atlantic Ocean: Essays on Britain and America |
Matthew Brown |
| A. L. Kennedy, Day | Matthew Brown |
| Ali Smith, Girl Meets Boy: The Myth of Iphis |
Matthew Brown |
| George Oppen, New Collected Poems | William Doreski |
| Grace Paley, Fidelity | Jacquelyn Pope |
| Stephen Sandy, Netuske Days | Chard Deniord |
| Ron Slate, The Great Wave | Floyd Skloot |
| Susan Stewart, Red Rover | William Doreski |
| Katherine Vaz, Our Lady of the Artichokes |
Joyce Wilson |
| Brenda Wineapple, White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Wigginson |
Sarah White |
