Where Even Shadows Hum
By Culture Issue 126
Sill pieced together from sources as diverse as Gene Autry and Jung’s closet gnosticism. Reviving her music is our nekyia too—a way to listen to the cultural shadows that emerged in the seventies and still haunt us.
Read MoreThe End of Cicero
By Poetry Issue 126
He is sixty-four this year,
near the sea, where we
find him, serious, scrounging
“For the Egyptians tell us Hephaestos…”
By Poetry Issue 126
Invention loves desire
but desire brings home war.
Unquenchable Fire: The Road as a Graphic Novel
By Culture Issue 126
Manu Larcenet. The Road: A Graphic Novel Adaptation. Harry N. Abrams, 2024. A 1-megaton thermonuclear weapon detonation begins with a flash of light and heat so tremendous it is impossible for the human mind to comprehend. One hundred and eight million degrees Fahrenheit is four or five times hotter than the temperature that occurs at…
Read MoreRandall Jarrell
By Poetry Issue 126
I could remember only the highway,
Read MoreJuly 21, 1969
By Poetry Issue 126
There was a man that night on the lovers’ moon
walking as if on water
This Pillar of Cloud
By Essay Issue 126
THERE IS A STORY I have been trying to tell. At first I began with a metaphor, but it never felt right. I rewrote this metaphor a dozen times or more, unwilling to let it go. The metaphor was both premonition and denial; it was an unconscious attempt to disguise the collapse of my marriage,…
Read MoreThe Leaf Rake
By Essay Issue 126
Why did Jesus make the nights here so beautiful, soft to the touch? And did I really have a substitute explanation to offer my son?
Read MoreAphorism 17: The Grass Is Always Greener
By Poetry Issue 126
the world’s ripe belly open in its bloodless way
Read MoreIn the Studio
By Visual Art Issue 126
For us Iranians, carpets are not just objects but a sacred part of family existence: We are born, live, and die on carpets.
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