Winter 2008
Cover art
“Luscious Fruit”
by SoHyun Bae
SoHyun Bae is the recipient of a 2007 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Fine Arts. She has received numerous other awards including a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, 2002; the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc. Grant, 2000; and a Fellowship at the Corporation of Yaddo, 2000. Currently, she travels back and forth between New York City and Bologna, Italy.
Poetry
FEATURE EXCERPT: from State of Siege
Jacaranda
How Johnny Learned to Pray
II
A Poem for the Disengaged
Trestle
Absence
The Front
The Nightly Vigil
A Momentary Escape
Before the Afterlife Comes the Life-Life
Little White Truck
One Key
Situational Ode
The Replication
My Doctor Used to Praise My Ears
Invocation
White Space
Reading Joyce Carol Oates After the Argument
Eavesdropping at the Boaryard, East Boston
Piazza di Spagna
Ever
Stasis
The Travellers
The Other Foot
Grouse
Cradle
Heinrich Böll on Achill
Never Again, Then
Shell
War Story
Interrogation
Another Non-lucid Dream
Eltachrome Days
First Love
The Cordillera Effect
Gwen Takes Me to the New England Aquarium
Four Native American Love Poems
On-Location
Narrative Logorrhea
Badger's Brothers
Persona E
To November
icy roads
Fiction
Sacrifice
Arhontoula's Eyebrows
In Pigwell
Gripe
Creature Comforts
Reviews
Double Indemnity
Orbiting
To Seek
Loneliness