Hybrid Histories
Fall 2009
Edited by Bradford Morrow
Features a portfolio of fiction, poetry and drama by some of the most visionary writers at work today, all of whom conjure periods, moments, and people in history through the kaleidoscopic lens of imagination.
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SPECIAL FEATURES
Barney Rosset, Remembering Samuel Beckett (Including the Beckett/Rosset Correspondence about Waiting for Godot)
Thomas Bernhard, Ave Virgil (a major poem translated from German by James Reidel, appearing in English for the first time, with a postscript note by Bernhard)
Roberto Bolaño, From Antwerp (translated from Spanish by Natasha Wimmer)
HYBRID HISTORIES PORTFOLIO
Francine Prose, A Simple Question
Paul La Farge, The History of the History of Death
Adam McOmber, The Automatic Garden
William H. Gass, Professor Skizzen Gets the Word
Bernard Pomerance, Break on Through to the Other Side: The War Crimes Trial of General Nelson Miles Held by the Dead
Andrew Ervin, The Light of Two Million Stars
Peter Orner, Geraldo
Elizabeth Robinson, Modernist Poems
Gabriel Blackwell, The Little Death
Stephen Marche, La Pu
Peter Gizzi, From The Face of Lincoln
Maureen Howard, Yalta
Mark Edmund Doten, The Lights of Kadhimaya Hospital
Andrew Mossin, Drafts for Shelley
Matt Bell, His Last Great Gift
Elizabeth Rollins, The First Intifada [Jerusalem, 1987–1993]
D. E. Steward, Avrila
Paul West, Tunguska
NEW WORK
Cole Swensen, Five Ghost Poems
Nathaniel Mackey, Two Poems
Tim Horvath, The Discipline of Shadows
Martine Bellen, Hard Objects Found in People
Ann Lauterbach, Two Poems
Robert Coover, In Search of the Body
Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Two Drafts
Can Xue, Rainscape (translated from Chinese by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping)
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