Volume 40, Number 2 (Fall 2010)

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In our fall issue: starting with the obituaries, that hanging bird, Walzheimer's disease, and making sense of the enormous, embarrassing gaps.

Listen to Ben Percy, Sara Gilmore, and Steve McNutt read from the issue

EDITOR'S NOTE

 

 

 

 

 

POEM

Lydia Davis: Three Dreams
Geoffrey G. O’Brien: Ambien; Failed Catalog; Street Cry
Timothy Donnelly: The Rumored Existence of Other People; Dream of the Overlook
Josef Kaplan: The Rich Are Emotional; Mass Petting
Srikanth Reddy: Excerpts from Voyager
Craig Santos-Perez: Excerpts from aerial roots
Antonio Gamoneda: Excerpts from Descriptión de la mentira, trans. Sara Gilmore 
Alan Felsenthal: A net in which; A point in
Jennifer Moxley: There Is Birdsong at the Root of Poetry; Lullaby
Andy Carter: Feeling a Feeling; Immense Breast of the Huge Sea (1920); Pure Gold
     of Intense Manhood (1935)
Elizabeth Robinson: Lee Miller photographs Amelia Earhart after she’s disappeared;
     Roald Dahl touches Jessica Mitford on the arm.; Samuel Beckett corresponds
     with Father Damien on Molokai.; David Garnett ruminates on how one thing
     becomes another yet purports to stay the same.; Frida Kahlo’s Ghost at the
     Algonquin singing Dorothy Parker’s “I don’t care what’s written about me so
     long as it isn’t true“ with a Mexican accent.; Zora Neale Hurston says, “Songs
     are built on the power to charm beneath the bed-clothes.“
 
PLAY
Denis Johnson: Purvis
 
STORY
Benjamin Percy: The Rubber-band Gun
     Argentinian Spanish translation by María Bernardello: La Pistolita
     Argentinian Spanish translation by Pablo Ambrogi, María Bernardello, et al.: El Pibe al que no
     invitamos a la orgia
Youval Shimoni: The Art of War, trans. Dalya Bilu
Brock Clarke: Knock Knock
     Argentinian Spanish translation by Alejandra Rivero: Toc Toc
Daniel Gutstein: Benny
 
ESSAY
Susan McCarty: Services Pending
     Argentinian Spanish translation by Pablo Ambrogi: Avisos fúnebres
Lia Purpura: Augury
Chavawn Kelley: Romance in Barcelona
Saint James Harris Wood: Rabble Letters (1 & 2)
 
INTERVIEW
Tara Atkinson: Vacuuming the Whole House and Where Do We Go Now:
     A Conversation with Joshua Ferris