I’ve Been Told: A Story’s Story
John Barth
Kronia
Elizabeth Hand
The First Thing That Happened
Jon McGregor
The Camp Counselor
Julia Elliott
Mission Thief
Forrest Gander
Home on the Rain
Jonathan Carroll
Two Fictions
Sara Veglahn
The Double Helix
Arthur Sze
Sir John Paper Returns to Honah-Lee
Robert Coover
Miss
David Schuman
From Liberation
Joanna Scott
Gardener of Heart
Bradford Morrow
Three Tales
Rikki Ducornet
Two Poems
Nathaniel Mackey
Two Stories
Translated by Chen Zeping, Translated by Karen Gernant and Alai
Hydroplane
Susan Steinberg
Two Poems
Toby Olson
To the Interstate
Rebecca Curtis
Lonely Planet
Joshua Furst
From The Gravedigger’s Daughter
Joyce Carol Oates
Slow Mergers of Local Stars
Paul West
Satembre
D. E. Steward
The Widening
Carol Moldaw
Voyagers
Frederic Tuten
Young H Saved from Infamy
Carole Maso
Walking to Auschwitz
Robert Kelly
Malaria
Deb Olin Unferth
At the End of the Road
Robert Antoni
The Piano Lesson
William H. Gass
Nine Poems
Richard Meier
Two Poems for Miyazaki
Martine Bellen
Blaze
Brian Lucas
Three Poems
Lara Glenum
Six Poems
Elizabeth Willis
Nine Poems
James Grinwis
Three Poems
John Taggart
Four Poems
Rae Armantrout
Draft LXX: Lexicon
Rachel Blau DuPlessis
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Leaving home is a dangerous business. Whether it’s to walk across the street or travel to another continent, one never returns the same. This issue explores in fiction and poetry the fascinating, complex process of defamiliarization as the ultimate path to knowing oneself.
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