The Massachusetts Review presents the latest Working Titles e-book: TABLE FOR ONE by Yun Ko Eun, translated by Lizzie Buehler—available this week! From TABLE FOR ONE: THE CUSTOMER COMES in alone. The owner is a bit slow-witted and asks, “How many in your party tonight?” This is a family-style barbecue restaurant, though, so you can’t say . . .
Read MoreBy Any Means Necessary (Author’s note: The following is Part Three of a three-part series, which updates a blog post that originally appeared in The Contemporary Condition in May, 2017). Read Part Two here. To the extent that there is anything that could be called Trumpism, it is the carrying out of the right-wing Christian agenda. Evangelical . . .
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Part Two: Trump and the Triumph of Christian Totalism (Author’s note: The following is Part Two of a three-part series, which updates a blog post that originally appeared in The Contemporary Condition in May, 2017). Read Part One here. In the case of Trump and other buffoons in power today there is a disjunction between power’s operation . . .
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(Author’s note: The following is Part One of a three-part series, which updates a blog post that originally appeared in The Contemporary Condition in May, 2017) No one I know of has foreseen an America like the one we live in today. No one (except perhaps the acidic H. L. Mencken, who famously described American democracy as . . .
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A portfolio of Tracey Physioc Brockett’s “Daily Tangles” series can be seen here or in our Winter 2017 issue, Vol. 58, Issue 4. Tell us about one of the first pieces you created.I have been painting and drawing my whole life, though I was banned from finger-painting in kindergarten, because it was all I wanted to . . .
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On the night of his execution, Bartolomeo Vanzetti, immigrantfrom Italia, fishmonger, anarchist, shook the hand of Warden Hendryand thanked him for everything. I wish to forgive some people for whatthey are now doing to me, said Vanzetti, blindfolded, strapped downto the chair that would shoot two thousand volts through his body.—from . . .
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“I wouldn’t tell any of the guys this, they’d never let me live it down if they knew, but I threw up in the bushes after seeing what they did to that girl in the basement. That’s like a real pussy thing to do, right?”—from “Players,” in Winter 2017 (Volume 58, Issue . . .
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It’s not indispensable, poet, that you write it.Your elegy.You won’t help her die by doing so.You won’t bury her more.If anything you’ll unearth her. A footamong clods of humus in the Wax Museum. —from “To the Nicaraguan Poet Francisco Valle, Exhorting Him to Not Write His Corresponding Elegy to Alejandra Pizarnik,” by Carlos . . .
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The 2018 winner of the Anne Halley Poetry Prize is Katie Farris for her poem, “The Lords of Time,” published in Volume 58, Issue 4. Katie Farris is the author of Thirteen Intimacies, forthcoming from Fivehundred Places, and boysgirls. She has cotranslated several books of poetry from French, Chinese, and Russian. Her work has appeared in anthologies . . .
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