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
Forthcoming 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. This will be an issue of missing persons, phantom limbs, sensory deprivation, amnesia, lost masterpieces, broken artifacts, islands that sink under the skin of the sea.
Frederic Tuten, The Tower
Joanna Scott, The Collector’s Beginning
Karen Hays, The Cubes
Benjamin Hale, Venus at Her Mirror
John Madera, Suspension as a Unit of Experience; or, What She Remembered of the Vanishing Lines
Ann Lauterbach, Seven Poems
Matt Bell, In Each Room, Some Unadorned Spectacle
Robert Olen Butler, AWOL
Robert Walser, Three Dramolets, trans. by Daniele Pantano and James Reidel
J. W. McCormack, The Girl with the Prefabricated Heart
Kim Chinquee, Four Stories
Gabriel Blackwell, ( )
Carole Maso, The Silver World
Can Xue, Venus, trans. by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping
Marjorie Welish, Prospects Of and At
Lucy Ives, Orange Roses
Justin Wymer, Six Poems
Robert Coover, Pach’
Julia Elliott, Organisms
Gillian Conoley, Peace Poems
G. C. Waldrep, Six Poems
Charles Bernstein, Elfking Suite
Joyce Carol Oates, Betrayal
Stephen O’Connor, Next to Nothing
Maxine Chernoff, Five Poems
Brandon Krieg, The Removes
Miranda Mellis, Up the Hill
Joanna Ruocco, Three Stories
Yannick Murphy, By the Time You Read This
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