The Death Issue
Fall 2008
Edited by David Shields and Bradford Morrow
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Lance Olsen, Lessness
Jayne Anne Phillips, Leavitt’s Dream
Eliot Weinberger, Questions of Death [1892]
Kyoko Mori, Between the Forest and the Well: Notes on Death
Jay Cantor, Memorial Church
Lucius Seneca, Sick, translated by John D’Agata
Melissa Pritchard, A Solemn Pleasure
Tom Robbins, The Meaning of Life
Shelley Jackson, Early Dispatches from the Land of the Dead
David Guterson, Five Poems
David Huddle, Wages of Love
Joyce Carol Oates, Dear Husband,
Geoff Dyer, What Will Survive of Us
Mary Jo Bang, Two Poems
Nicholas Delbanco, Mere Oblivion
John Ashbery, Floating Away
Susan Daitch, Morto
Bob Shacochis, From The Woman Who Lost Her Soul
Melanie Rae Thon, In This Light
Christopher Sorrentino, Death in the Age of Digital Proliferation, and Other Considerations
Ted Mathys, Four Poems
Robert Clark, Bayham Street
Doris Betts, Another Modest Proposal
Mark Doty, Bijou
Terese Svoboda, My Brother’s Dust
Mary Gordon, Little Sister
David Ives, St. Francis Preaches to the Birds
Jessica Hagedorn, Toxicology
Ann Lauterbach, After Tourism
Brenda Hillman, Cezanne’s Colors
Thomas Lynch, Shilling Life
Michael Upchurch, The Hanging Jetty
Brian Evenson, The Adjudicator
Michael Logan, The Pressure Points
Joe Wenderoth, To Take Place
Edward Hoagland, Triage Along the Nile
Sarah Manguso, The Task of Memory
Peter Mountford, A Room on the Eighth Floor
C. D. Wright, Some Old Words Were Spoken
Jim Harrison, Three Poems in Search of Small Gods
H. G. Carrillo, Andalucía