Conjunctions: 18 / Fables, Yarns, Fairy Tales

Spring 1992

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Three Tales from Puerto Rico (translated by the author)
Rosario Ferré

Tale of the Enchanted Pig
Translated by Elliot Urdang, Translated by Marguerite Dorian and Norman Manea

Kitty Blue
James Purdy

Five Dark Tales
Lydia Davis

Two Stories
Can Xue, Translated by Jian Zhang and Translated by Ronald R. Janssen

Zho-jan
John Ash

The Bewitched Burr and Other Tales (cotranslated by the author)
Grozdana Olujic and Translated by Jascha Kessler

A Fish Story
Diana Hartog

Three Tales from the Tale Known as the Princess Hoppy or the Labrador Tale
Jacques Roubaud and Translated by Bernard Hœpffner

The Black Angel
Gary Indiana

Complaint on Her Cat
Diane Ackerman

How I Became One of the Invisible (with a sketch-map by the author)
David Rattray

Three Folktales from India (collected by the translator)
Translated by A. K. Ramanujan

Four Bear Songs
Kurt Schwitters and Translated by Jerome Rothenberg

Kuzma and the Worm
Forrest Gander

Convicta et Combusta
Joanna Scott

The Parakeet and the Cat
Scott Bradfield

The Reduction of the Nativity
Fanny Howe

The Rose and Other Fairy Tales
Translated by Jamey Gambrell and Liudmila Petrushevskaya

Eight Parables and Poems
James Laughlin

Madame Realism: A Fairy Tale
Silvia Kolbowski and Lynne Tillman

Ich Liebe Dich and Other Lies Too Hideous to Utter
Sally Pont

The Lorca Variations: “Lunar Grapefruits”
Jerome Rothenberg

Three Maidens at the Bath
Dennis Tedlock

Two Lithuanian Fairy Tales
O. V. de L. Milosz and Translated by Edouard Roditi

The Children of Montjoie
Wendy Walker

Two Tales
Mary Egan

The Woman of Stone
Paola Capriolo and Translated by Lawrence Venuti

O’Malley and Schwartz
Patrick McGrath

The Butterfly Girl
William T. Vollmann

Rupert Killamarsh’s Other Life
Joe Servello and Paul West

The Pig Story
Russell Edson

Snowbird and Other Tales
Yannick Murphy

My Grandmother’s Story of the Buried Treasure and How She Defeated the King of Chacachacari and the Entire American Army with Her Venus-Flytraps
Robert Antoni

Mété
Theodore Enslin

The
Armand Schwerner

Four Folktales from Nigeria (collected by the translator)
Translated by Romanus Egudu

Daughter
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

Papa Will
Charles Wartts, Jr

R’ha-l’a R’a-H’oum
Patricia Eakins

The Channah Tales
Bradford Morrow

Description

Conjunctions: 18, Fables, Yarns, Fairy Tales

Edited by Bradford Morrow

Cover art by Bill Traylor. Courtesy of Hirschl & Adler Modern.

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Dwarfs, giants, grotesques, argumentative animals—the whole imaginative menagerie of creatures common to the fairy tale is reinvented in this international gathering of eighty contemporary fables.

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