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Thirty ONE - FALL, 2006

"He who listens to his inner voice
instead of the cries and clamor of
the market, he who has the courage
to teach others what his heart has
taught him, will always be original."

- Ludwig B
örne
How to Become an Original Writer in Three Days
(translated by Leland de la Durantaye)

 

Editorial
CHRISTINA THOMPSON Editorial

 

Fiction
ELIZABETH SMITHER The Girl Who Proposed
ALAN HEATHCOCK The Staying Freight
ANTHONY KURLAND South of South
ALICE HOFFMAN All That I Am and Ever Will Be
ROBERTA MURPHY Boyfriend of the World
LUTHER MAGNUSSEN Interesting Facts About the Austrian...

 

Essays
SAM PICKERING Shadows
LUDWIG BÖRNE
Translated by Leland de la Durantaye
How to Become an Original Writer...
LELAND DE LA DURANTAYE The Art of Ignorance
PATRICIA VIGDERMAN In the Archives
LYDIA DAVIS Meeting Abraham Lincoln
TONY HORWITZ The History Beat

 

Poetry
STEPHEN BURT Tarmac with Soundtrack
BRONWEN DENSMORE Johnny Cash in the Afterlife
TODD HEARON In the Garden
WILLIAM LOGAN The Field
KIMBERLY JOHNSON On Divination by Birds
ALLISON SEAY Late Apology
JEFFREY LEVINE On Finding One's Book...
The Pushkar Camel Fair
CARMEN BUGAN The Names of Things
Acciecati dalla meraviglia
The Moldavian Pastoral
TEDI LÓPEZ MILLS
Translated by Michelle Young-Mee Rhee
Reading Virgil
EMILY SCUDDER Too Many
MARILYN CHIN After Enlightenment, There is Yam Gruel
RACHEL CONRAD A most paradoxical mixture of sound...
TOM DALEY My Mother on Moving Day
REBECCA KAISER GIBSON Oona's Left
JOHN HENNESSY Gateway, Batangas
Scared Straight/club mix...
MIKE PERROW Victrola
JANET SYLVESTER Marionette Lines
SARAH WHITE Companion
STEPHEN STURGEON Rose of Sharon
Untitled
IVAN BLATNÝ
Translated by Veronika Tuckerova and Anna Moschovakis
Love
Misspelled
CHAD PARMENTER A Villanelle to Burn
PURA LÓPEZ COLOMÉ
Translated by Forrest Gander
Niagara's Snowy Cascades
BRENDAN GALVIN Advice to Blow-ins
STEPHEN SANDY Names for Birds
ROBERT WRIGLEY The Bird's Mouth
DANIEL HALL Under Sleep
HARRIS GARDNER Che Sera May Be

 

Graphics
TERRY WINTERS Tokyo Notes
TODD McKIE Linocuts
ELIZABETH MARRAN Trust Me

 

Book Reviews
American War Poetry, ed. Lorrie Goldensohn Kathleen Rooney
Kate Braverman, Frantic Transmissions J. T. Townley
Suzanne Buffam, Past Imperfect Hadara Bar-Nadav
Stephen Burt, Parallel Play Ellen Davis
Steven C. Caton, Yemen Chronicle Janet Pocorobba
Tess Gallagher, Dear Ghosts William Doreski
Linda Gregg, In the Middle Distance Meg Tyler
Seamus Heaney, District and Circle William Doreski
Sheila Heti, Ticknor Nicole Lamy
The Imaginary Poets, ed. Alan Michael Parker Molly McQuade
Mary Karr, Sinners Welcome Joyce Wilson
John Koethe, Sally' Hair Richard Rand
Harry R. Lewis, Excellence Without a Soul Michael Shinagel
Grevel Lindop, Playing with Fire Kevein McGrath
Michael Martone, Michael Martone Molly McQuade
Gail Mazur, Zeppo's First Wife Tina Barr
Czeslaw Milosz, Legends of Modernity Benjamin Paloff
Modern Korean Fiction, ed. Bruce Fulton et al Jung Ja Choi
Elizabeth Nunez, Prospero's Daughter Laura Albritton
Gina Ochsner, People I Wanted to Be Lily Huang
Robert Pinsky, First Things to Hand William Doreski
Elizabeth Rosner, Blue Nude Jenny DeBell
Viktor Shklovsky, Knight's Move Benjamin Paloff
W.D. Snodgrass, Not for Specialists Henry Hughes
Franz Wright, God's Silence Nadia Herman Colburn

 

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