Two Kingdoms
Fall 2003
Edited by Bradford Morrow, Guest Edited by Howard Norman
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An anthology of previously unpublished fiction, poetry, essays and multigenre works that address the theme of inescapable dualism in our lives, from the geographic to the linguistic, from the psychological to the historic, and beyond. Features a Gaddis tribute dossier edited by Rick Moody.
Featuring tributes by Don DeLillo, Paul Auster and Siri Hustvedt, David Grubbs, Russell Banks, Susan Cheever, Ben Marcus, Mary Caponegro, Steven Moore, Sven Birkerts, Robert Coover, Joanna Scott, Rodrigo Fresán, Cynthia Ozick, Maureen Howard, Jonathan Lethem, Edie Meidav, Joseph McElroy, Bradford Morrow, Stewart O’Nan, Carter Scholz, David Shields, Christopher Sorrentino, Joseph Tabbi, and William H. Gass.
Leslie Scalapino, ‘Can’t’ is ‘Night’
Howard Norman, Trees of the Epistolary Life (with art by Jake Berthot)
Rebecca Seiferle, Night Music
Merle Collins, From Streams of Water
Donald Berger, Scotch and an Orange
Steve Erickson, Zed Lake
Renee Gladman, Untitled
Julie Agoos, I Remember Her as a Study in Red
Susan Howe, Bed Brought Out of Scotland
Bradford Morrow, (Mis)laid
Elizabeth Robinson, Arrow
Brian Evenson, Two Stories
Catherine Imbriglio, Two Poems
Michael Bergstein, The Reincarnate
Norman Manea, The Nomadic Text: Exile and Translation, an interview by Sean Cotter
Carole Maso, The Passion of Anne Frank
James Tate, Five Poems
Martine Bellen, Seeing
Madison Smartt Bell, From The Head Cornerstone
David Antin, The Messenger
Jerome Rothenberg, The Pound Project
Ron Padgett, The Art of Thinking
Reetika Vazirani, Three Poems
Stanley Plumly, Spirit Birds
William Corbett, De Kooning
Mark Rudman, Birthday Call
Paul West, The Execution of Fegelein
Elizabeth Arnold, Three Poems
W. S. Merwin, To the Shadow
Clarence Major, Two Faces
Anselm Hollo, Guests of Space (II)
Michael Palmer, Four Poems
Reginald Shepherd, The Navigators
Joyce Carol Oates, The Gravedigger’s Daughter
Eliot Weinberger, Four Essays
Jackson Mac Low, Five Poems
Honor Moore, The Pink Dress
Rae Armantrout, Two Poems
Fanny Howe, Letters to Peter
Robert Kelly, How They Took My Body Apart and Made Another Me
Rikki Ducornet, The Ominous Philologist
Siri Hustvedt, Being a Man