Creative essays on subjects
as wide-ranging as rock ’n‘ roll lyrics, science, movies, magic, pornography, curiosity cabinets, the number ten thousand, and beyond.
Selected Subversions: Essays on the World at Large
Spring 2006
Edited by Rikki Ducornet, Bradford Morrow, and Robert Polito
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Joanna Scott, In a Glance
Geoffrey O’Brien, A History of Religions
Michael Logan, Investigation into the Death of Logan
Diane Ackerman, Give and Go
Rick Moody, The Pete Townsend Fragments
Robin Hemley, A Simple Metaphysics
Ned Rorem, Two Essays
Honor Moore, Hobart’s Brushes
David Shields, The Thing about Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead
Forrest Gander, Pig of Gold
Rosamond Purcell, Elements: Two Essays
William H. Gass, Mimesis
Anne Carson, Beuyskreuz
John Crowley, Practicing the Arts of Peace
Eliot Weinberger, Muhammad
Robert Harbison, The Mental Traveler
Martine Bellen, The Cyborg Suite
Sven Birkerts, The Ghost of Electricity: The Dylan Face
Paul West, The Shadow Factory
Fanny Howe, One Night in Weimar: An Essay
Matthew Kirby, On Reading the Bodies of Fathers
Kenneth Gross, The Blackened Puppet
Shelley Jackson, The Original Death & Burial of Cock Robin
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