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.
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.
Best of Impossible Worlds: Miriam Sagan’s and Tom Laichas’ Poetry of Place
By Toti O’Brien
I have acquainted Miriam Sagan and Tom Laichas through individual poems found in journals and magazines—chance encounters that have urged me to look for more.
Little (Flash) Plays: Blur by Dan Crawley
Review by Valerie Fox
The flash fictions in Dan Crawley’s latest collection, Blur, seamlessly go back and forth between his characters’ pasts and presents, between calm and storm.
Bind yourself to us with your impossible voice, your voice! sole soother of this vile despair.
—Arthur Rimbaud, “Phrases”
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Review: The Art of Prophecy: A How–To Guide from Beyond the Grave by Amos, a Major Minor Prophet by David Breeden
Review by Wally Swist
It is apt that one of the several quotes from a variety of notable authors prefacing David Breeden’s The Art of Prophecy: A How–To Guide from Beyond the Grave by Amos, a Major Minor Prophet would include the French philosopher Alain Badiou, a colleague of Gilles Deleuze and Michael Foucault, who writes about such concepts as truth not being either postmodern or a simple repetition of the concept of modernity, and whose philosophy just may be expressed succinctly by the quote used here, “Justice does not exist, which is why we must create it.”