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).

Connect

In Print

Conjunctions:72

Nocturnals

Spring 2019
Edited by Bradford Morrow

Online

Quiver’s Longing (AM Locus)

An Excerpt from Trafik

by Rikki Ducornet

May 21, 2019

AM Locus has a fabricated atmosphere, humid and breathable, unexpectedly dense in the organic compounds of living things once there in profusion, but now long gone. Of the landscape, all that remains are deep creases and ridges gyring in all directions, with barely a trace of biological activity.

In the Next Night

A Selected Text from Conjunctions:72, Nocturnals

by Gillian Conoley

May 16, 2019

In agitation along sleep’s surface

dreams the monster, the angular, the slimy, the anything goes, the corpse

who strokes the tigers with rather weak jaws

in a jump cut, on an icy blue couch, red queen

on mute––

Three Poems

by Jun-long Lee

May 14, 2019

Though no one is watching, an opening in the hedges reveals a gap where entry is possible.
Inside, an entity multiplies, but how can I know this. The broodself is invisible and smells like
before, which is the only way to know that it happened. It crawls out in unknown ways on
unknown legs, identical because there is no other form or sound.

A Reading by Peter Orner

Monday, October 28, 2019

2:30 pm – 3:30 pm