Contributors

David Shields

Contributor History

War Wounds, Conjunctions:16
Outside: Postcards from Abroad, Online 02-15-2000
The Ecstasy of Looking: Six Proofs, Conjunctions:34
A Brief Survey of Ideal Desire, Conjunctions:40
[“Nearly twenty years ago …”], Conjunctions:41
Boys’ Bodies, Conjunctions:42
Three Essays, Conjunctions:45
The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead, Conjunctions:46
Flood, Online 12-18-2006
Deep Breathing, Conjunctions:48
The Imaginary Dead Baby Seagull, Conjunctions:49
Remote, Multimedia 04-14-2009 (mp3, 00:06:24)

Biography

David Shields’s most recent books include The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead and Reality Hunger: A Manifesto (both Knopf).

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In Print

Conjunctions:75

Dispatches from Solitude

Fall 2020
Edited by Bradford Morrow

Online

Three Poems

by Amanda Gunn

January 19, 2021

. . . a well-perfumed friend, wise both
in the olfactory and in love, taught me
to spray with economy, to wear scent
as a private pleasure, evident only to
a lover in kissing distance.

Hex

by Shane McCrae

January 11, 2021

One’s opportunities to be unhappy are

Unlimited. Or limited, but only by

One’s own imagination, which is powerful

But fragile, is defenseless, but is limited

Only by things unseen. As Bark Psychosis did it

Three Poems

by Maxine Chernoff

January 4, 2021

As life encroaches on the dreaming
bedpost, you remember

a chip of ice you found in river
sludge, its sheen a mute witness

to increments of change
as lens and pure belief.