Conjunctions: 53 / Not Even Past

Fall 2009

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Remembering Samuel Beckett
Barney Rosset

Ave Virgil
Thomas Bernhard and Translated by James Reidel

From Antwerp
Translated by Natasha Wimmer, Roberto Bolañ and o

A Simple Question
Francine Prose

The History of the History of Death
Paul La Farge

The Automatic Garden
Adam McOmber

Professor Skizzen Gets the Word
William H. Gass

Break on Through to the Other Side
Bernard Pomerance

The Light of Two Million Stars
Andrew Ervin

Geraldo
Peter Orner

Modernist Poems
Elizabeth Robinson

The Little Death
Gabriel Blackwell

La Pu
Stephen Marche

From The Face of Lincoln
Peter Gizzi

Yalta
Maureen Howard

The Lights of Kadhimaya Hospital
Mark Edmund Doten

Drafts for Shelley
Andrew Mossin

His Last Great Gift
Matt Bell

The First Intifada, Jerusalem, 1987–1993
Elizabeth Rollins

Avrila
D. E. Steward

Tunguska
Paul West

Five Ghost Poems
Cole Swensen

Two Poems
Nathaniel Mackey

The Discipline of Shadows
Tim Horvath

Hard Objects Found in People
Martine Bellen

Two Poems
Ann Lauterbach

In Search of the Body
Robert Coover

Two Drafts
Rachel Blau DuPlessis

Rainscape
Translated by Chen Zeping, Translated by Karen Gernant and Can Xue

Description

Conjunctions: 53, Not Even Past

Edited by Bradford Morrow

Cover art: Docklands, by Duncan Hannah, 1997. Reproduced by kind permission of the artist.

Not Even Past features a portfolio of fiction, poetry, and drama by some of the most visionary writers at work today, all of whom conjure periods, moments, and people in history through the kaleidoscopic lens of imagination.