Cover art: The Abraham Pixler Family, c. 1815. Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1966 (66.242.3). Watercolor, pen and iron gall ink, and gouache on off-white laid paper, 10x8 in. (25.4x20.3 cm). Image copyright © The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Art Resource, NY.
Kin
Fall 2011
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.Our ancestors, our parents, our siblings, our spouses, our children, our children’s children. Family trees, pedigrees. Forebears, descendants. Nothing is more familiar, nothing more ineffable than the emotional prism, the blood knot that constitutes family. This special issue explores the intricacies of family ties and the labyrinthine nature of kinship.
Karen Russell, A Family Restaurant
Sallie Tisdale, Falling
Rick Moody, Rapid Transit
Rae Armantrout, Two Poems
Karen Hays, 32 Lemmas
Robert Clark, Scott and Ben
Noy Holland, Swim for the Little One First
Octavio Paz, Interrupted Elegy, translated by Eliot Weinberger
Sarah Blackman, Mother Box
Ann Beattie, The Clouds, The Apples, Their Lives
Clark Knowles, Charlie Moon’s Last Performance
Peter Orner, Shhhhhh, Arthur’s Studying
Rachel Tzvia Back, Lamentations
Joyce Carol Oates, Defeat
Miranda Mellis, From The Spokes
Robert Kelly, Father & Sons
Aurelie Sheehan, The Secondary Confessions
A D Jameson, You’ll Be Sorry
Andrew Mossin, Through the Rivers
Can Xue, Sin, translated by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping
Micaela Morrissette, Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité, ou la Mort
Andrew R. Touhy, Four Stories
Diane Greco Josefowicz, The Dwindling
Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud, Buddy, translated by Edward Gauvin
Gracie Leavitt, Four Poems from Fifth-Grade Ophelia
Christie Hodgen, Fathers in Their Old Age: A Primer
Scott Geiger, Quality of Life in Switzerland
Elizabeth Hand, Uncle Lou
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