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Vol. 41

Conjunctions:41

Two Kingdoms

Fall 2003
Edited by Bradford Morrow & Howard Norman, with a dossier of tributes to William Gaddis edited by Rick Moody

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An anthology of previously unpublished fiction, poetry, essays, and multigenre works that address the theme of inescapable dualism in our lives, from the geographic to the linguistic, from the psychological to the historic, and beyond.

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Cover art: The Return, by Jake Berthot, 1999. Reproduced by kind permission of the artist and Nielsen Gallery, Boston.

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Contents

Two Kingdoms

Guest Editor’s Note

Zed Lake

Seeing

Reginald Shepherd

The Navigators

Jerome Rothenberg

The Pound Project

Susan Howe

Bed Brought out of Scotland

Being a Man

Madison Smartt Bell

From The Head Cornerstone

Four Poems

Eliot Weinberger

Four Essays

William Corbett

De Kooning

Reetika Vazirani

Three Poems

Two Faces

W. S. Merwin

To the Shadow

From Streams of Water

Norman Manea
Interview by Sean Cotter

The Nomadic Text: Exile and Translation, An Interview

Joyce Carol Oates

From The Gravedigger’s Daughter

Fanny Howe

Letters to Peter

Rebecca Seiferle

Night Music

Spirit Birds

Anselm Hollo

Guests of Space (II)

Carole Maso

The Passion of Anne Frank

Paul West

The Execution of Fegelein

The Ominous Philologist

Bradford Morrow

James Tate

Five Poems

Untitled

Michael Bergstein

The Reincarnate

David Antin

The Messenger

Duality

Elizabeth Robinson

Arrow

Honor Moore

The Pink Dress

Ron Padgett

The Art of Thinking

Jackson Mac Low

Five Poems

Two Poems

Leslie Scalapino

‘Can’t’ is ‘Night’

Robert Kelly

How They Took My Body Apart and Made Another Me

Two Stories

Catherine Imbriglio

Two Poems

Julie Agoos

I Remember Her as a Study in Red

Mark Rudman

Birthday Call

Elizabeth Arnold

Three Poems

Scotch and an Orange

Howard Norman
Illustrations by Jake Berthot

Trees of the Epistolary Life

William Gaddis: A Portfolio

Rick Moody

[“The ten years after a writer’s death …”]

Paul Auster, Siri Hustvedt

[“I remember when we met Gaddis …”]

David Grubbs

[“To begin with, here are two things …”]

[“William Gaddis’s project was noble and exemplary …”]

[“I’ve always been fascinated by Gaddis …”]

Ben Marcus

[“On the occasion of his posthumous publications …”]

[“He was elegant, urbane, unassuming …”]

Steven Moore

[“The four cardinal points …”]

[“When Rick Moody suggested …”]

[“It was the grad-school summer of ’60 …”]

Don DeLillo

[“I remember the bookstore, long gone now …”]

Bradford Morrow

[“Gaddis. Even when, during our dozen or so conversations …”]

Joanna Scott

[“To tell the truth is to tell a lie …”]

Rodrigo Fresán

[“Justice?–You get justice …”]

[“Nearly two decades ago …”]

[“Money. The first word of J R …”]

Jonathan Lethem

[“How long did The Recognitions …”]

Edie Meidav

[“It was this impulse to extend …”]

[“A habit, no more than his acute ear …”]

Stewart O’Nan

[“I’m not sure when I came across …”]

[“As Lou Harrison says …”]

[“Nearly twenty years ago …”]

Christopher Sorrentino

[“I’ve always been partial …”]

Joseph Tabbi

[“I can’t be the only one …”]

William H. Gass

[“‘Our immortality is made of memories and lies …’”]