Conjunctions: 26 / Sticks & Stones

Spring 1996

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The Scarlet House
Angela Carter

Blake’s Lagoon
Ann Lauterbach

Two Stories
Rikki Ducornet

Hide and Seek, A Play in One Act
Paul Auster

The String Diamond
Arthur Sze

Voice-Over
Elaine Equi

Song of the Andoumboulou: 30
Nathaniel Mackey

Line of Descent
Forrest Gander

Briar Rose
Robert Coover

L.A. Sketches
David Mamet

Five Stories
Diane Williams

Walking Home
Thalia Field

Sticks and Stones: An Introduction
Ben Marcus

Demonology
Rick Moody

The Cyclic History of the Line
Brian Schorn

Hanging the Creetats
Lois-Ann Yamanaka

White
Terese Svoboda

The Polygamy of Language
Brian Evenson

The Putti
Shelley Jackson

The Angelus
Timothy Crouse

Contractions
Gary Lutz

Is Anybody Listening?
Dawn Raffel

The Flum
David Ohle

The Meat Garden
Craig Padawer

Blueprint for Obelisk
Ronald Johnson

Lunar Nights
Norman Manea and Translated by Patrick Camiller

From Fair Fight (a mean little dance)
Liz Tuccillo

Two Poems
Michael Palmer

Dharma Bear
Martine Bellen

The Changemaker
Robert Kelly

Lore
Laynie Browne

The Bodhisattva Locksmith
Lynn Martin

Seven Poems
Fanny Howe

The Commission
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

Five Portable People
Paul West

Two Poems
Rae Armantrout

The Villa
Anna Maria Ortese and Translated by Henry Martin

Description

Conjunctions: 26, Sticks & Stones

Edited by Bradford Morrow

Cover photograph © 1994 by Gregory Crewdson: Untitled (C–print, 30 inches by 40 inches). Reproduced by kind permission of the artist and Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York.

“The writers gathered here do not change the subject or perpetrate equations that dilute what we secretly know and need to know about the living project, about navigating our common air and living into the wind. They are writers who share a rigorous attention to composition that is seemingly unshakable, and otherworldly.”
—Ben Marcus