Mirinae Lee’s debut novel, 8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster, has been published by Harper Collins. Lee’s story “Me, Myself, and Mole” appeared in our Fall 2021 issue. Tupelo Press just released Wind—Mountain—Oak: The Poems of Sappho, a collection of the Greek poet as translated by Dan Beachy-Quick, whose original poetry was published in . . .
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Al had not been blessed with charm. Or pleasing aspect. Or verve. Or intellect, that I could discern, though she must have had some scrap of it to have gained acceptance in the first instance. She was a lumpen thing, all fuzzy hair, pigeon toes, and befuddled grin, her broad back humping . . .
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After I persuademy students there isa name for everything, for days I mull on whatto call the kind of kinddissembling I’ve done.—from “Dustsceawung,” Vol. 64, Issue 2 (Summer 2023) Tell us about one of the first pieces you wrote.Once I read an interview where Shane McCrae talked about reading some of his . . .
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Right when the dissector picks up the eye, I notice the sunhas already found a place to bruise with light. With slight pressure, she shifts the pink flesh and muscle.That eye can’t see to ask its paths. Or fact its ransom.—from “Blind Spot,” Volume 64, Issue 1 (Spring 2023) Tell us about . . .
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In the same spot where Father died, the dead body of a deer lay prostrate in the rain. Raindrops collected on the ground, flowing like a river. Invisible to the naked eye, electricity trickled into the moist soil as if through the veins of leaves, electrons packed closely together. Micro-organisms gnawed away . . .
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The incredible lightness of beering,So refreshing with summertime nearing!O they’ll flow flavorfullyWith their low ABVsWhen the afternoon heatwaves start searing. #1Take an Air Bath when temperatures rise.Finely bubbled, its bite will surpriseYou with tongue-tingling zipTo enliven each sipOf this Session so brightly devised. #2A drinkable language that’s clear-ly straw-colored, delightful Kölsch beerIs so crushable, fruity,and lightly . . .
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For every year you aren’t a tongue away: America clogs. I ice the WhiteZin, choose a filter, call this mood. Not to say I’m a hunterbut I refuse to see the syllableswhich luck your name—from “A Toast to the Narcissist’s Exit,” Volume 64, Issue 2 (Spring 2023) Tell us about one of . . .
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A Review of perennial fashion presence falling by Fred Moten (Wave Books, 2023) A Review of perennial fashion presence falling by Fred Moten (Wave Books, 2023) I’m going to be straight with you: in important ways, this book might not be for you. You might be, as I suspect I sometimes am, inadvertently but consequentially, . . .
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A Review of Whale by Cheon Myeong-kwan, Translated from Korean by Chi-Young Kim (Archipelago Books, 2023) “Stories,” writes Cheon Myeong-kwan near the end of his lush and sprawling Whale, “are an exploration into a life filled with injustice.” Translated from the original Korean by Chi-Young Kim and shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize, Myeong-kwan’s . . .
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Isabel Zapata‘s essay collection, In Vitro: On Longing and Transformation, (translated by Robin Myers) has recently been published by Coffee House Press. Her poem, “Horse in Motion” was published in our Summer 2021 issue, A Gathering of Poets. Babyn Yar: Ukrainian Poets Respond, a poetry collection co-translated by John Hennessy, has just been published . . .
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