Cover art by Chad Wys: Nocturne 93, 2011, c-print, 30"x24", from the series Nocturnes (Set 1). © Chad Wys; all rights reserved.
In Absentia
Spring 2013
Edited by Bradford Morrow
Here we explore the presence of absence, the losses that gain on us, the black holes in our everyday lives.
Joyce Carol Oates, Betrayal
Lucy Ives, Orange Roses
Brian Evenson, Torpor
Yannick Murphy, By the Time You Read This
G. C. Waldrep, Six Poems
Robert Olen Butler, AWOL
Miranda Mellis, Up the Hill
Robert Coover, Pach’
Justin Wymer, Six Poems
Ann Lauterbach, Seven Poems
Frederic Tuten, The Tower
Joanna Ruocco, Three Stories
Karen Hays, The Cubes
Stephen O’Connor, Next to Nothing
Marjorie Welish, Prospects Of and At
Can Xue, Venus, trans. by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping
J. W. McCormack, The Girl with the Prefabricated Heart
Gabriel Blackwell, ( )
Gillian Conoley, Peace Poems
John Madera, Suspension as a Unit of Experience; or, What She Remembered of the Vanishing Lines
Joanna Scott, The Collector’s Beginning
Maxine Chernoff, Five Poems
Matt Bell, In Each Room, Some Unadorned Spectacle
Benjamin Hale, Venus at Her Mirror
Kim Chinquee, Four Stories
Brandon Krieg, The Removes
Julia Elliott, Organisms
Carole Maso, The Silver World
Charles Bernstein, Elfking Suite
Robert Walser, Three Dramolets, trans. by Daniele Pantano and James Reidel
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