40x40
Spring 2003
Edited by Bradford Morrow
Subscribe to Conjunctions here. Or to receive notifications of updates to the issue-in-progress, information on the themes of upcoming issues, and announcements when we post full texts from our forthcoming issue, join us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter.In celebration of the fortieth volume of Conjunctions, we present a special collection of new work—forty contributions by forty innovative writers of fiction, poetry, drama, and essays.
Laynie Brown, White
Lyn Hejinian, Four Poems
Joyce Carol Oates, Dr. Magic, A Play in One Act
Eliot Weinberger, Two Essays
Donald Revell, Landscape: Tamalpais
Lois-Ann Yamanaka, Kalihi Valley
Robert Creeley, Four Poems
Martine Bellen, Spiritual Mathematics
David Shields, A Brief Survey of Ideal Desire
Frederic Tuten, My Autobiography: Portable, With Commentary
John Ashbery, Three Poems
Can Xue, Helin, translated by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping
William T. Vollmann, Lost Victories
Angela Carter, “We’re Not Dealing with Naturalism Here”: An Interview with Angela Carter, 1989 (conducted by Susan Bernofsky)
Cole Swensen, Four Poems
Susan Steinberg, The Last Guest
Han Ong, Under the Philippines
Rae Armantrout, Three Poems
Ann Lauterbach, Impossible Blue
Brenda Coultas, Two Poems
Diane Williams, Two Stories
Ilya Kabakov, Charles Rosenthal (1898–1933), Biography and Portfolio
Christopher Sorrentino, Condition
Maureen Howard, One, Two, Three O’Leary
Ange Mlinko, Three Poems
John DeCaire, Paternity
Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Draft 55: Quiptych
Rick Moody, Schoolgirls
Joy Williams, Hammer
Paul West, Grudge on the River Kwai
Leslie Scalapino, From Dahlia’s Iris—Secret Autobiography and Fiction
Gustaf Sobin, Transparent Itineraries: 2000
Duncan Dobbelmann, From Caballero
Elaine Equi, Two Poems
Mary Caponegro, Junior Achievement
Anton Chekhov, Three Stories, translated by Peter Constantine
Robert Kelly, Gla[n]s
Christine Hume, Two Poems
William H. Gass, The Abandonment of the Family