CONJUNCTIONS:55
Urban Arias

Fall 2010

Edited by Bradford Morrow


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The bond between city dwellers and their metropolitan milieus lies at the heart of this issue of Conjunctions, which investigates the very rich gamut of what constitutes one of the oldest experiments in human habitation.

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Yvan Goll, Paris Burns, translated by Jed Rasula

Etgar Keret, Two Stories, translated by Miriam Shlesinger and Sondra Silverston

Lyn Hejinian, City Under Sun

Philippe Soupault, Westwego, translated by Andrew Zawacki

Brian Evenson, The Oxygen Protocol

Norman Manea, Dada Capital of Exiles

Christopher Hellwig and Michael J. Lee, Three Urban Tales

C. D. Wright, From Breathtaken (with photographs by Deborah Luster)

Joyce Carol Oates, Roma!

John Ashbery, Four Poems

Paul La Farge, The Count of Monte Cristo’s Daughter

Greg Hrbek, Destroy All Monsters

D. E. Steward, Luglia

David Ohle, A Favor for Big Ernie

Matt Bell, For You We Are Holding

Stephen O’Connor, ’Til There Was You

Tim Horvath, The City in the Light of Moths

Diane Williams, Stop When the Person Becomes Restless or Irritable

Donna Stonecipher, Model City

John Madera, Some Varieties of Being and Other Non Sequiturs

Thomas Bernhard, A Conversation with André Müller, translated by Adam Siegel

Adam Veal, The Edible City

Susan McCarty, City/Body: Fragments

Marjorie Welish, Four Poems

Emma Smith-Stevens, Switch

Michael Sheehan, The Horror

Colleen Hollister, In the City


As well as new work by:

Jed Perl

Howard Norman

Shelley Jackson

Elizabeth Hand

Charles Bernstein

Karen Russell

Peter Orner