Issue 91
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Featuring the art of renowned African American sculptor Martin Puryear, winner of the National Medal of the Arts, as well as the art space created by Irish American painter Sean Scully at the thousand-year-old chapel of Saint Cecilia in Montserrat, Spain. Fiction by Mika Seifert that imagines life in a dictatorship where ladders and stairs are banned; Swedish fiction writer Torgny Lindgren reimagines the patriarch Joshua as a man of metaphysical hunger; and Marilyn Abildskov story deals with the Mormon practice of baptisms for the dead. In nonfiction: Amye Day Ong’s bittersweet, comic memoir about childhood illness and Christian genre fiction, and Stina Kielsmeier-Cook on her husband’s loss of faith and her own more ambiguous spiritual journey. Becca J.R. Lachman reviews what she calls New Monastic poetry—work by writers who crave community and are finding it in surprising ways. Gregory Wolfe on Scorsese’s Silence. Interview with Michael Gruber, whose literary thrillers have supernatural underpinnings. Plus poems by Adélia Prado, Javier Acosta, Abdellatif Laâbi, and others. Work in translation supported by a grant from the NEA.
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Editorial Statement
Gregory Wolfe, Listening to Silence
Fiction
Mika Seifert, The Ladder
Torgny Lindgren, Joshua
Marilyn Abildskov, The Baptism of Sister Arlene Anderson
Poetry
Luke Johnson, Tom as a Series of Declaratives
Earthquake
Adélia Prado, The Girl and the Fruit
Daughter of the Ancient Law
The Scar
Lamentation to Move Jonathan
Ewa Elzbieta Nowakowska, Merton Listens to the Requiem
Romanian Orthodox Choir
Merton Recites a Mantra
Tadeusz Dabrowski, [I strive to live as if…]
Jam Jars
Greg Miller, Still Life with Fruits and Bread
Resurrection at Cookham
George David Clark, Twenty-Five Years of Fresh Air
Mark Wagenaar, The Trick
Texas Blues
Abdellatif Laâbi, To My Son Yacine
Ricardo Pau-Llosa, Lazarus
Needles
Christian Detisch, Elijah in the Desert
Tentatively, Religion
Javier Acosta, Jacob’s Ladder
Visual Arts
Karen L. Mulder, Presence in a Space: The Flickering Contradictions of Martin Puryear
Paul Anel, Gathering the Light: Sean Scully’s Montserrat Chapel
Interview
Gregory Wolfe, A Conversation with Michael Gruber
Essay
Jessica Goudeau, Dinner with Dona Adélia
Amye Day Ong, Chest Percussions
Confessions
Stina Kielsmeier-Cook, The Doubt that Breathes Beside You
Book Review
Becca J. R. Lachman, New Monasticism, Old Homesickness: New Poetry in Review
Sarah Green’s Earth Science
Brad Aaron Modlin’s Everyone at This Party Has Two Names
Kathryn Nuernberger’s The End of Pink
Additional information
Weight | .75 lbs |
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Dimensions | 10 × 7 × .5 in |