No. 16
Robert Sullivan on the landscape of the American Revolution in Almanac; Suzanne Sullivan's revolutionary quilts; Guillermo Fadanelli at the beach; Gus Powell on the streets of Amsterdam; C.F. Ramuz at the circus; Jack Livings in China; Kathleen Jamie's pilgrimage to Rona; poems by Adrienne Rich, Robyn Schiff, Graham Foust, Joshua Beckman, and others; and introducing Annie Sloniker.
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Almanac
No. 16 • Robert Sullivan
History is in the panorama, buried like old stones or sediment from an older era.Feature
A Calculated Aimlessness
No. 16 • Elizabeth Gaffney
"Bob walks me to work every day at the preschool where I teach, and while we walk he talks to me about what he’s writing."Fiction
The Circus
No. 16 • C. F. Ramuz
After the sun went down, you saw the streets of the town fill with people.Poetry
Tracings
No. 16 • Adrienne Rich
This chair delivered yesterday / built for a large heavy man / left me from his estate / lies sidewise legs upturnedPoetry
Tinnitus Asks a Question
No. 16 • Samuel Amadon
Ringing on the street, you know, that day I saw / a girl on a bike get hit by a pickupPoetry
Two Poems
No. 16 • Paul Verlaine
I can barely discern, / Through a murmur, / Erotic polyphony— / A diaphane, a daybreak.Poetry
Shandong Morning
No. 16 • Jon Cotner
A farmer / takes his 87- / year-old mother / to Beijing / on a tricycleFiction
We’re Flying
No. 16 • Peter Stamm
Six o’clock came and went, but Angelika wasn’t really worried.Feature
On Rona
No. 16 • Kathleen Jamie
Far over the horizon, out in the North Atlantic, where one might expect a clear run to Iceland or even Labrador, or, if anything, just a guano-streaked gull slum, the island of Rona is one last green hill rising from the waves.Order A Public Space
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