No. 17
Douglas Crase on Michelle Jaffé’s Wappen Field; John Haskell in Los Angeles; Peter Orner in Chicago; Jessica Francis Kane on Thomas Lane; Tom Drury at the zoo; Hervé Guibert’s journals; poems from Palestine; stories by Patricio Pron and Christina Hesselholdt; poems by Suzanne Buffam, Monica Ferrell, Vijay Seshadri, and others; and introducing Megan Cummins.
Fiction
American Lawn
No. 17 • Jessica Francis Kane
The white paper stood out among the faded posters announcing diversions she’d tried in years past—yoga, piano lessons, French conversation.Fiction
DOA
No. 17 • John Haskell
The story I’m in begins, not at the beginning because there is no beginning, but I remember sitting behind a desk.Poetry
Knowing
No. 17 • Vijay Seshadri
Not just because of my cold, cold heart, / pumping absolute zero in the glacial void / do I not know anyone trulyPoetry
In Which the Pathetic Fallacy Wants to Even More
No. 17 • Mark Bibbins
Frankly I don’t follow this / strategy of yoursPoetry
Altered Proverbs
No. 17 • Suzanne Buffam
People who live in glass houses should install blinds.Poetry
From The Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Casuistry
No. 17 • Brian Blanchfield
It scarcely varies.Poetry
Sever Sonnet
No. 17 • Andrew Zawacki
Fire / Wall and wall / -flower, you, a blossom of ice at the frontierFeature
Aperture on a Virtual Field
No. 17 • Douglas Crase
I had the good luck to encounter Michelle Jaffé’s room-sized installation, Wappen Field, at the Bosi Contemporary gallery in New York early in August 2012.Fiction
We Are Holding Our Own
No. 17 • Megan Cummins
All that vanished time rattled around inside him like engine knock.Feature
The Mausoleum of Lovers
No. 17 • Hervé Guibert
I think that death, when it comes, is ardently desired by the body (abrupt spring shower), that it is just the respite from a fatal disgust.Fiction
Something in Us Wants to Be Saved
No. 17 • Patricio Pron
We opened the bottle and took a long sip before lying down on the grass and looking at the clouds:Order A Public Space
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