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Russell Banks

Contributor History

Bunting, Conjunctions:8
The Moor, Conjunctions:34
[“William Gaddis’s project was noble and exemplary …”], Conjunctions:41
The Sweet Hereafter, Multimedia 12-06-2003 (mp3, 00:03:56)
From The Reserve, Online 12-13-2007
A Permanent Member of the Family, Conjunctions:61
Last Days Feeding Frenzy, Conjunctions:64
Kidnapped, Conjunctions:79
An Excerpt from Kidnapped, Online 01-18-2023

Biography

Russell Banks, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, was one of America’s most renowned fiction writers. He published ten novels and six short story collections, and his award-winning work was translated into twenty languages. His latest novel is The Magic Kingdom (Knopf).

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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