Reading Dan Beachy-Quick, Wonderful Investigations
By Poetry Issue 98
The relation of a poem to time is as follows: a narrative poem travels along a stream creating white ruffles of water behind it swimming over rocks it arrives at the ocean and dies A lyric poem unlocks a door in the stream taking a deep breath it walks through the door into a big…
Read MoreIt Is Possible to Give a Vulture Too Large a Task
By Short Story Issue 98
Regarding the vulture (karkas) it says that even from his highest flight, he sees when flesh the size of a fist is on the ground, and the scent of musk is created under his wing so that if in devouring dead matter, the stench of the dead matter comes out from it, he puts his…
Read MoreThe Goy
By Short Story Issue 98
HE FUCKING hated Jews, okay? He was no anti-Semite, either. Hadn’t he married a Jew, thereby becoming the progenitor of four children who, against all odds, decided, one after the next, to practice what they all called, without a trace of irony, the faith of their forefathers? All four of them married other Jews and…
Read MoreAlphabetic Art
By Essay Issue 98
The following is adapted from the plenary address given at Image’s Glen Workshop in Santa Fe in August, 2018, on the conference theme of “Telling Truths: Art, Honesty, and Community.” I HAVE WRITTEN THIS TALK as a partial alphabet: it starts with A (for art) and goes through T (for telling truths). For alphabetic languages,…
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