Volume 41, Number 1 (Spring 2011)

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In our Spring 2011 issue: Tibetan air funerals, chicken husbandry, where to park your bulldozer, seeing your brother's eyes, and a dogsbody for Travolta.

EDITOR'S NOTE

 
 
 
 
 
 
POEM
Melissa Ginsburg: Squab; Our Hospital: Preserve; Drift
David Trinidad: Sharon Tate and Friends the Moment Before; Medusa Redux; Noir
     & Blanc
Ben Lerner: Late in the Form; Late in the Form
Lee Posna: Theseus; Behind the Counter
John Witte: Y; Jesus and the Splinter; When You Come to Lethe
Erica Bernheim: The Oversized World; [when I say backdoor I meant the way a lot];
     Elegy In The Absence Of
     translated by Carolyne Wright. Read Wright's introduction to
     Rahman, Irreparable Loss, and a Way towards Beauty [TIR Online]
Joshua Kryah: The Least Child; Poor Dogsbody, Poor Dogsbody's Body; That Man
     to Man Is an Arrant Wolfe; Playlist of the Same; We Are Starved
Jacskon Wills: from Inter Umbras Arborum, a Pastoral Phantasm-agoria
 
STORY
Kevin Moffett: The Perfect Age
Ashley Wurzbacher: Burden
Paul Lisicky: Irreverence; Bunny; The Mother Sits Down on the Bed; The End of
     England
Stuart Dybek: Here Comes the Sun
Laurel Starkey: Eating Potato Salad on the Lawn of the Damned
Steve Almond: What Retired Engineer Roger Mudge Thinks Upon His Son Patrick's
     Announcement of His Engagement; Testimony of a Private; The Short Goodbye
Jason Ockert: Max
James Terry: Road to Nowhere
     translated by Becka Mara McKay [TIR Online]
 
ESSAY
Fred Sasaki: Punch No. 96
Susan Lohafer: In the Bullring
Danielle Cadena Deulen: Aperture
Jay Baron Nicorvo: Summer Chickens


INTERVIEW
Sarah Fay: Fiction Born of Rival Impulses: A Conversation with Wells Tower

 
ARTWORK
Stephen J. Crompton: Cape Cod Morning; Morning in a City; Summer Evening;
     Automat; from the series Realizing Edward Hopper