ISSUES | winter 2010
33.4 (Winter 2010): "Blindsided"
Featuring work by Brian Brodeur, Tarfia Faizullah, Carol Ghiglieri, Karl Taro Greenfeld, Maria Hummel, Adam Krause, Jennie Lin, Daniel Mueller, Danielle Ofri, and Daniel Stolar …and an interview with Michael Byers.
CONTENT FROM THIS ISSUE
Reviews
Jul 13 2011
Lives of the Poets: On Recent Novels About Poets
Reviews of:
Jerome Charyn, The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson, W. W. Norton and Company, 2010
Ron Hansen, Exiles, Picador, 2009
Adam Foulds, The Quickening Maze, Penguin, 2010
Brian Hall, Fall of Frost, Penguin, 2009
Michael Sledge, The More I Owe You, Counterpoint, 2010
Fiction
Dec 01 2010
Fergus
On that Friday Carl Timm had done nothing, just surfed the web at work hunting down torque specifications for luxury sedans he would never, ever have true interest in or means for purchasing-specifications that would embed themselves in his memory, as if to be kept handy for manly conversation among man-friends in some faraway world. At five to five he’d driven home in his used-looking Saturn wagon, muddy maroon, and butted it up against the thawing grass in his backyard. His house was wedged in on a forgotten corner in northeast Minneapolis, across the street from a foundry; the siding had been hammered by thick specks of black dust for years.
Fiction
Dec 01 2010
Emma Won't Get Better
It’s a strange thing to be the one going through a tragedy. All day long you bump into people, especially in a place like Tucson, and they are nice, but their lives go on. Sometimes you see it on their faces, the realization: when they’re just being polite, asking you how you are, and their public face crumples because they suddenly remember. You do your best then to let them off the hook.
Fiction
Dec 01 2010
Even the Gargoyle Is Frightened
Poetry
Dec 01 2010
Poetry Feature: Tarfia Faizullah
Featuring the poems: Poetry Recitation at St. Catherine’s School for Girls (featured as Poem of the Week, Feb. 9, 2011) Reading Tranströmer in Bangladesh En Route to Bangladesh, Another Crisis… read more
Foreword
Dec 01 2010
Blindsided
Because much of the literature about this subject is by nature corrective-offering solutions easy answers and descriptions of “stages”-it is oddly refreshing and useful to see an author describe and fully recognize the derangement of grief and trauma. At least someone who is suffering such agony knows she isn’t the only crazy person out there.
Fiction
Dec 01 2010
Gandhi Is Dead
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Poetry
Dec 01 2010
Poetry Feature: Brian Brodeur
Featuring the poems: On Suffering, The Gulf, He Asks the New Owner to Look After His Trees, Kandahar, The Man with a Bird’s Head
Nonfiction
Dec 01 2010
I'm OK, You're OK
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Fiction
Dec 01 2010
In the Quiet
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Art
Dec 01 2010
Remembering the Hours: Nancy Cunard's Expatriate Press
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Poetry
Dec 01 2010
Poetry Feature: Maria Hummel
Featuring the poems: Twelve red seeds, Long hospital, White houses, What to say, Changeling
Interviews
Dec 01 2010
A Conversation with Michael Byers
Interview conducted by Polly Rosenwaike. This text is not currently available online.
Nonfiction
Dec 01 2010
Unstrung
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