Faces of Desire
Spring 2007
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.The forty-eighth issue of Conjunctions celebrates that yearning which bends the soul out of its original shape—desire—in all its forms, all its hostile and gentle multiplicities.
Brian Evenson, Desire with Digressions
Luc Sante, Not Fade Away
Siri Hustvedt, Variations on Desire:
A Mouse, A Dog, Buber, and Bovary
Mary Gaitskill, The Agonized Face
H. G. Carrillo, Pornografía
Rikki Ducornet, Two Stories
Shena McAuliffe, Benevolence
Donald Revell, Three Poems
Joyce Carol Oates, The Master at St. Bartholomew's Hospital 1914–1916
David Shields, Deep Breathing
Frederic Tuten, Self-Portrait with Beach
Will Self, Any Shape, Any Size
Aimee Bender, Interval
Ann Tardos, The Aim of All Nature Is Beauty
Rebecca Seiferle, How Many Fires
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, The Mouse
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, My American Jon
Tova Reich, The Plot
John D’Agata, Essay on What Is Want
Reginald Shepherd, Letter to a Wound
Susan Steinberg, Signified
Robert Kelly, Confessions of Don Juan as Faustus
Lewis Warsh, Working Late
Kevin Magee, Two Poems
Robert Olen Butler, From Intercourse
Andrew Mossin, The Arbor
Eleni Sikelianos, Notes Toward the Township of Cause of Trouble (Venus's Cabinet Revealed)
S.G. Miller, A Home To Go Home To
Elizabeth Hand, Errantry
Juliana Leslie, Three Poems
Michael White, Stamina
Cole Swensen, Ghosts
Mary Caponegro, Her Lady's Mouth
Carole Maso, Eclipse
Paul West, Obsession in Outer Mongolia