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

Black Box

by David Ryan

October 23, 2018

Even though I was a couple of floors below on the sidewalk, I thought I recognized her from long ago when I, or we, lived in another country. But I heard she’d died—nothing confirmed, but I’d been told as much, and yet, what do you do with this but try to forget that the person is real, forget that they may still be moving through life.

Incomplete Enlightenment

by Rachel Blau DuPlessis

October 16, 2018

The knife was raised
before there was an after.
He cried out, “Stop, stop!
“My name means laughter.”

The Necklace

by Ashton Politanoff

October 9, 2018

It was his mother’s necklace, so it had value to him, more value to him than probably to his wife. It was meant for a woman though, so he couldn’t wear it.