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:70

Sanctuary: The Preservation Issue

Spring 2018
Edited by Bradford Morrow

Online

The Malingerers

by Kristine Ong Muslim

November 13, 2018

8:00 p.m. in this perpetual night shift, and we talk again to the person inside the photo booth, you know, that one photo booth that tunnels all the way down—or up, depending on where you are—to that familiar place where all afterlife and underworld mythologies owe their artifice, the predictability of salvation they purport to deliver.

Days of Heaven

A Selected Text from Conjunctions:71, A Cabinet of Curiosity

by A. D. Jameson

November 8, 2018

A grown-up man not unlike me is trying to coax a struggling child into a box. That’s badly phrased and only a single sentence in we are in need of starting over.

From It Was Over There by That Place

by Diane Glancy

November 6, 2018

There were parts I recognized.

I saw by night a man riding a red horse and he stood among the myrtle trees in the bottom and behind him were red horses, sorrel and white. My Lord what are these?