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:73

Earth Elegies

Fall 2019
Edited by Bradford Morrow

Online

Three Poems

by Laura Kolbe

March 31, 2020

in the pharmacy of the child
one used a hopscotch stone
a jacket zipper one’s tongue
the sharper tongue of a friend
anything to get one’s soft skin back

Cut

by Paul Lisicky

March 17, 2020

1.

Because he could picture himself curled up on the shelf of the refrigerator between the bread and the light.

2.

Because he stared up at the sprinkler attachment and thought of it as a metal flower.

The One Who Takes Your Name

by David Bajo

March 10, 2020

Mears takes your name. As soon as you say it, he speaks it in quick echo, and it is now his and no longer yours. We don’t know what he does with it or what it does for him, but we do know what happens to those he pilfers.