Issue 29 | Fall 2023
Issue 29 brings flirty game wardens, nuns in a cavern, mysterious transmissions, the world’s youngest knife thrower, the names of Argentina’s rivers, streams, and lakes, the fountain of youth, gray dawns, and ferocious appetites. It’s about war, lies and misinformation, languages and language, erasures, brutal occupations, bad reasons for enlisting, and signs that refract so deeply we can’t trace their path back to the world. It’s about sinister radio signals from the fillings in your teeth or maybe over there among the trees.
She Never Sees Her Mother
By Annette Gulati
“She never sees her ailing mother. She only listens to her on the telephone, rattling on about the dialysis treatments, the trips to the emergency room, the stabbing pain in her abdomen. Likely the cancer.”
Her First Dead Body
By Annette Gulati
“She’s six years old when she sees her cat dangling from her father’s hands in the open doorway of her bedroom, a circus act in her very own hallway.”
Nine Books About Your Life: Juliet Cook
In our Nine Books About Your Life series, authors are invited to talk about nine types of books that have had an impact on their life. Juliet Cook is the author of numerous poetry chapbooks, most recently including red flames burning out (Grey Book Press, 2023), Contorted Doom Conveyor (Gutter Snob Books, 2023), and Your Mouth is Moving Backwards (Ethel Zine & Micro Press, 2023).
Bind yourself to us with your impossible voice, your voice! sole soother of this vile despair.
—Arthur Rimbaud, “Phrases”
Latest Reviews
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Untranslatable Song: The Vertical Poetry of Roberto Juarroz
By Wally Swist
“For a poet who is also considered to be an aphorist, and who was a friend and colleague of Antonio Porchia, a master of the form, the poetry of Juarroz is more substantive than what is an oversimplification of his style and form.”
Nine Books About Your Life: Catherine Rockwood
In our Nine Books About Your Life series, authors are invited to talk about nine types of books that have had an impact on their life. In this installment we’re speaking with Catherine Rockwood, author of And We Are Far From Shore: Poems for Our Flag Means Death.
Observational Anti-aphorisms: Chelsea Tadeyeske’s Island Weather
Review by Peter Burzyński
Chelsea Tadeyeske is the progenitor of a type of anti-aphoristic aphorisms that are at first glance disparate thoughts strung together, but ultimately are deep, cutting, and brilliant interconnected jibes that paralyze and, paradoxically, entice.