No. 24
The Other Interest: Etel Adnan on weaving; poetry by Giorgio de Chirico; David Lynch paints; a memoir by Gordon Parks; Sally Potter's work diary; Dorothea Tanning's fiction; New work from Martha Cooley, Dan Chelotti, Graham Foust, Katy Lederer, Fadwa Suleiman and others; and introducing Jai Chakrabarti, Cornelius FitzPatrick, Arinze Ifeakandu, Mahreen Sohail, and April Wolfe.
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The Other Interest
No. 24 • Brigid Hughes
What one is known for, what is presented as a life’s work, is not an entirety. These other interests, away from the perfectionism and public attention of primary pursuits, could offer another, less guarded view.Collage
Father Telephoned the Fly
No. 24 • Herta Müller
I begin to feel uneasy and then I disappear.Portfolio
Dreams of a Year
No. 24 • Dorothea Tanning
In 1947, Dorothea Tanning was already known as a painter when the magazine Les Quatre Vents published her story “Dream It or Leave It” in an issue devoted to the Surrealists, revealing her as one of the group’s rare members with talent as both a visual artist and a writer.Portfolio
Have You Ever Dreamed of Flying?
No. 24 • Pamela S. Johnson
For Dorothea Tanning, 1947 was a year of realized dreams.Portfolio
Dream It or Leave It
No. 24 • Dorothea Tanning
I am afraid, too, of unforeseen events, cats, acts of violence, sickness, steep hills, the power of the unknown and my own potential. All unsurprising fears.Portfolio
Notes from Sedona
No. 24 • Dorothea Tanning
Sometimes I think the only true and satisfactory means of contact with those we love is by writing rather than talking.Reminiscence
Ellington: A Sort Of Memoir
No. 24 • Gordon Parks
You are about to witness a remote and covetous collaboration between flower and beast.Diary
Naked Cinema
No. 24 • Sally Potter
It’s not so much a matter of finding a fictitious self, but rather locating how to inhabit a space with presence.Portfolio
Unfit for the Front Line
No. 24 • Giorgio de Chirico
The painter in Italy during the First World War.Paintings
Small Stories
No. 24 • David Lynch
I can feel a little bit of a story before the frame that’s the painting and a little bit of the story afterwards.Letters
Notes on Weaving
No. 24 • Etel Adnan
At moments like this I begin to think we’re at the beginning of a new millennium, a new vocabulary, a very new perception.Poetry
Eternal Return
No. 24 • Dan Chelotti
Nietzsche says that we live / our lives to live them again, / exactly as they were lived.Poetry
That Time in Me: Amulet (Love Sonnet to Letters)
No. 24 • Laynie Browne
You know I wouldn’t love you any less / if there were no possible end to lovePoetry
Ghost Story
No. 24 • Sally Wen Mao
All a ghost wants is to be chained / to a place, to someone who can’t forget / her.Poetry
Three Poems
No. 24 • Graham Foust
We like to say we hate the visual arts, / the ways adults address their children and pets, / the open sore or sewer we call the sea.Poetry
This Economy of Claws
No. 24 • Andrew Seguin
So many hearts / sputter to pump in the hospital / like organists playing from a reefFiction
Mercedes Benz
No. 24 • Martha Cooley
Maybe those women felt as mercurial and blurry as she often did. Well, not blurry, exactly: incompletely inventoried. Like a house with unexplored rooms.Poetry
Praise
No. 24 • Katy Lederer
For him, it was a mediation / of desire, the word in his / wooden tongue.Poetry
It Was Your Birthday Again
No. 24 • Jennifer Chang
I watched her once unhook dead branches / from a living tree.Poetry
Two Poems
No. 24 • Shuzo Takiguchi
Beautiful words / transform into birds of light / inside a crystal eye.Poetry
Modern Standards
No. 24 • Meghan Privitello
It has taken me a light-year to not come to terms with dying.Poetry
The Creature
No. 24 • Josh Bell
Like many of you humans, I enjoy lifting small, living things, because sometimes they fear mePoetry
Genesis
No. 24 • Fadwa Suleiman
There is no way out if you kill / Your victory will teeter on one leg / There will be a crown of blood on your headPoetry
Poem in Which You Become a Detective
No. 24 • Catie Rosemurgy
Something bad, something sequential, is happening to you. / Maybe not to you, but in the place you’re standing.Poetry
Bewitched
No. 24 • Peter Gizzi
Is the word / a cunning bird / even in new / dark I will not / be quiet, the / feathering / covering meFiction
A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness
No. 24 • Jai Chakrabarti
No ruse better than a woman in the home, Nikhil had argued over a year ago, and eventually Sharma had agreed.Fiction
The Future of Statues
No. 24 • Cornelius FitzPatrick
He wanted to be equal to the gaze of the sky.Fiction
God’s Children Are Little Broken Things
No. 24 • Arinze Ifeakandu
Your heart burned like you had hot charcoal on it, and your tongue tasted like bitter lemon.Fiction
Trig Functions
No. 24 • April Wolfe
You were so far away from her and too scared to close the distance.Order A Public Space
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