Essay
By Brian Patrick Eha
A new biography of Denis Johnson chronicles a life riven by "grace and incredible harm."
Essay
By Lily Meyer
On Irma Pineda's trilingual Stolen Flower.
Poem
By Denis Johnson
the woman whose face has just finished breaking
with a joy so infinite
and heavy that it might be grief has won
a car on a giveaway show, for her family,
for an expanse of souls that washes from a million
picture tubes onto the...
with a joy so infinite
and heavy that it might be grief has won
a car on a giveaway show, for her family,
for an expanse of souls that washes from a million
picture tubes onto the...
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From the magazine:“No wound hurts”
“No wound hurts”
By Irma Pineda
Translated By Wendy Call
No wound hurts
like the silence
of those who watch our flesh sliced open
listen, resigned, to the crunch of bones...
like the silence
of those who watch our flesh sliced open
listen, resigned, to the crunch of bones...
Poem
By W. S. Merwin
Listen
with the night falling we are saying thank you
we are stopping on the bridges to bow from the railings
we are running out of the glass rooms
with our mouths full of food to look at the sky
and say thank you
we are...
with the night falling we are saying thank you
we are stopping on the bridges to bow from the railings
we are running out of the glass rooms
with our mouths full of food to look at the sky
and say thank you
we are...
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When I was young
my father brought me a gift,
a yellow bird...
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