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Curtis
By Patrick Cottrell“Stephen suggested that they have sex on the kitchen table but Susan declined. She hadn’t brushed her teeth yet.”
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On Albrecht Dürer’s Engraving Saint Eustace
By Inger Christensen“We shall see the deer as part of the trunks of the forest. // We shall see its antlers imitating the branches of the trees.”
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Poetry
Sagrado Corazón
By Lina Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas“The most likely scenario is that the men neither slid in nor slithered out. Men who dream up bombs you can strap around women’s necks are not creatures of nuance and subtlety.”
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Facades
By David Szalay“He feels almost like he’s in mourning. For months, more than a year, in fact, the hotel idea has been the main thing in his life.”
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Bolaño’s Heresy: On “Distant Star”
By Ben Lerner“Maybe this is my own dream or projection, but when I read Bolaño’s flat, minimal descriptions of nonexistent verse, the prose begins to vibrate.”
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Lorelei and Athens
By Zans Brady Krohn“They were not fancy girls, but they did love the absolute best of things, and also appreciated the simple pleasures the earth had to offer: good red dirt, full-fat Coca-Cola.”
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1981
By Asiya Wadud“in a world / the orange sun / resets / a recessed darkness”
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ART 149: Music for Visual Thinking
By Cauleen SmithThis portfolio renders a selection of the vinyl records Smith plays to begin each session of the undergraduate studio course she teaches at UCLA.
