Contributors

Rikki Ducornet

Contributor History

Two Stories , Conjunctions:26
The Many Tenses of Desire, Multimedia 10-18-1998 (mp3, 00:06:01)
From The Fan-Maker’s Inquisition, Conjunctions:32
From The Fan-Maker’s Inquisition, Conjunctions:32 (mp3, 00:04:57)
The Battlefields of Shiraz, Conjunctions:34
Grilled Pigeon and Counterpane Wars, Conjunctions:36
Sleeping with Schéhérazade, Conjunctions:37
The Deep Zoo, Conjunctions:38
The Ominous Philologist, Conjunctions:41
Three Tales, Conjunctions:44
A Secret Life , Conjunctions:45
Two Stories, Conjunctions:47
Two Stories, Conjunctions:48
Because His Youth Or The Parrot’s Spanish, Conjunctions:50
From Brightfellow, Conjunctions:63 (63:102-112)
Metamorphosis and the Surreal, Online 02-21-2017
Quiver’s Longing (AM Locus) — An Excerpt from Trafik, Online 05-21-2019
Pages from The Plotinus, Conjunctions:75

Biography

The author of fourteen books of fiction, Rikki Ducornet has received the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction and a Literature Award from the Academy of Arts and Letters. Her novella The Plotinus and her novel Trafik will both publish in 2021 with Coffee House Press. A writer and a painter, her novels are published in over a dozen languages and her paintings exhibited internationally. Her work is featured in The International Enclopedia of Surrealism, published May 2019 in London with Bloomsbury Books.

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In Print

Conjunctions:80

Ways of Water

Spring 2023
Edited by Bradford Morrow

Online

The Rachel

by Rachel Blau DuPlessis

September 20, 2023

The Rachel stands tuned
to multiplicities,
aslant in a territory of longing,
where she becomes foreign.

What has she found?
She listens, acknowledges another sound,
diffuse, multiple,
pulsing thought, oscillations, whisperings,
never only one.

The Whorled

by Zachary Gary

September 13, 2023

I had yet to discover the source of that star, it came and it passed but from where it sprang and then fell to fading remained a mystery. In cycling its light lent its powers to coloring my tablecloth a lighter shade, relieving pigment from its duty to darken, except for those spots where I placed my bottles and cups, shielding only parts of the piece from fading, threads left closer to their original hues hewed to others abandoned as wraiths to their fates, a darker ring the mark of those who stayed behind.

Five Poems

by Donald Revell

September 6, 2023

Where the trees blackened, I saw,

Quickly, three deer lean into goldenness.

It seems, although wildfires rage

Out of control, this world remembers

Some portion of its first purposes:

Superfluous beauty