No. 12
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts in Harlem; Antoine Wilson in Panorama City; John Haskell on Eadweard Muybridge; Sarah Manguso with Evgeny Kissin; Jeffrey Lependorf's dinner with Marcel Proust; Tom Drury's Darlings; Noemie Goudal's Les Amants; fiction by Kiki Delancey, Patricia Engel, and Dorthe Nors; poems by Seamus Heaney, Adrienne Rich, Karen Volkman, G.C. Waldrep, and others.
If You See Something
Overheard: Tom Drury on the Comfort of Disapproval
No. 12 • Tom Drury
Two teachers, Dave and Jane, are talking in a high school lounge.If You See Something
Gold and Azure Beasts: Julian Gough Assesses the Damage
No. 12 • Julian Gough
The Book of Kells, in Trinity College, Dublin.If You See Something
If You See Something, Don’t Say Something: Yiyun Li Describes an Imagined Panel
No. 12 • Yiyun Li
With Rabih Alameddine, Elizabeth Bowen, 2 Mary-Beth Hughes, Samantha Hunt, Peter Orner, Natasha Randall, Marisa Silver, and Corinna VallianatosFiction
Joan Comes Home
No. 12 • Tom Drury
One spring, after being gone seven years, the actress Joan Gower returned to Grouse County to get her son and take him back to California to live with her.Feature
Public AccessHere is the Evidence
No. 12 • Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
A friend of mine describes certain cities as being full—too much has happened there, you cannot move. Paris, he says, is the quintessentially full city. I suspect he'd say Harlem is another place that is too full.Fiction
Fausto
No. 12 • Patricia Engel
Sometimes love hits you like a drunk driver on Memorial Day weekend. A tragedy, really, but you don't care because you're the victim and beyond hope anyway.Poetry
Axel Avákar (Fictive Poet, Counter-Muse, Brother)
No. 12 • Adrienne Rich
The I you know isn’t me, you said, truthtelling liarPoetry
Russian Valley
No. 12 • Tomaž Šalamun
Lord, jump from the elder tree, / let your feet and eyes flutter.Poetry
Scandinavian Skies
No. 12 • G. C. Waldrep
One country starts out as a bank / and ends up as a solarium.Poetry
Pulse (Hidden Bird)
No. 12 • Nick Flynn
Imagine a glass of water, a drop of blood sus- / pended—dead center—one drop, watch it / dissolve.Poetry
The Riverbank Field
No. 12 • Seamus Heaney
Ask me to translate what Loeb gives as / “In a retired vale... a sequestered grove”Poetry
An Historie, An Inverse Structure
No. 12 • James Meetze
At once an utterance and then a song for / direction established like a compass magnet / to history’s repetitive north.Poetry
The Queen’s Queen
No. 12 • Karen Volkman
Or regality is the reigning / indemnity, this thread, as a silk strand / augments the meadow with its rednessFeature
Dining with Proust
No. 12 • Jeffrey Lependorf
Marcel Proust plans a party while Gabriel-Louis Pringué reminisces about parties attended by Proust.Feature
Why I Sing
No. 12 • Sarah Manguso
By high school I had a composition teacher, an ensemble teacher, a theory teacher, and a studio teacher, but what I really needed was a psychiatrist.Fiction
Panorama City
No. 12 • Antoine Wilson
If you set aside love and friendship and the bonds of family, luck, religion, spirituality, the desire to better mankind, and music, and the arts, and obtaining food by hunting and fishing and farming, self-importance, so-called glory, and public and private transportation from buses to bicycles, if you set all that aside, money is what makes the world go around.Feature
The Persistence of Muybridge
No. 12 • John Haskell
I’ve been trying, for more than six years, to write an essay or story or something about Eadweard Muybridge.Order A Public Space
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