ISSUES | spring 1998
21.1 (Spring 1998): "Daughters"
Featuring work by Alice Fulton, Susan Vreeland, Willa Rabinovitch, Martin Krasney, Cintia Santana, Ashley Clifton, Michael Pettit, David Clewell, Robert Gibb, Tina Chang, George Looney, Jocelyn Bartkevicius, Carol Cloos, Henry DeWitt… and an interview Andrei Codrescu.
CONTENT FROM THIS ISSUE
Fiction
Dec 01 1998
West
When the bus first carried Tina and her mother into the desert, past the oil fields of west Texas, Tina felt somehow that they had passed a point of no… read more
Fiction
Dec 01 1998
Steal Away
Benny Padilla wasn’t Marty’s first one. The first one was a big-toothed boy with fingers like sausages he pistoned inside her until both of them fell away aching. This on the afternoon couch in the boy’s living room, the parents at work. Marty not at her dance lessons and not expected home until dinner.
Nonfiction
Dec 01 1998
Out of the Garden
This essay was a winner of the 1997 Editors’ Prize. 1 My grandmother crouches in the garden, dress flecked with mud and grass stains, pulling weeds and telling stories. I… read more
Nonfiction
Dec 01 1998
Dangerous Men
When I left that picturesque ignorance we often mistake for innocence, I did so with guides who gave me an education in the sensous. Yet we avoided the pitfalls that dominate many recent memoirs and headlines and court cases, and I had more than a sexual awakening.
Fiction
Dec 01 1998
To Love Big Dog
YOU ARE NOT JUST ONE of the girls. Wait until your senior year in high school, when you know about love, to fall for Mr. Brinkly like the other girls.… read more
Fiction
Dec 01 1998
A Night Different From All Other Nights
The day before, Hannah Vredenburg and her younger brother Tobias watched their father let his partner’s pigeons go, back to their home in Antwerp. One by one, wafting between each… read more
Fiction
Dec 01 1998
The Mind of God
It has never occurred to me to say no to The Numbers; they chose me, and I’ve accepted them. Totally. Now, almost every afternoon when I come home from my office in the city, they let me know in advance precisely how many automobiles will drive past me during my short descent down the hill to the little lane where I turn left and finish my walk home.
Poetry
Dec 01 1998
Poetry Feature: George Looney
“True North”
“Prayer and the Pain of Backs”
“Darker Without the Herons”
Interviews
Dec 01 1998
An Interview with Andrei Codrescu
Interviewer: How did you come to the United States?
Codrescu: Let’s see. I swam across the Danube through miles of barbed wire….I ran into people holding hand grenades…No, I came on an airplane with my mother in the mid-sixties, 1965. We left Romania. We were bought by the state of Isreal, which at the time was happily buying freedom for Jews from Romania for the princely sum of five thousand dollars a head. The government paid ten thousand dollars for my mother and me. We were supposed to go to Isreal, but we never did.
Fiction
Dec 01 1998
Happy Dust
In the twentieth century I believe there are no saints left, but our farm on Boght Road had not yet entered the twentieth century. At that time, around 1908 it would be, I had a secret I could tell to no one, least of all a saint or an arsenic eater.
Nonfiction
Dec 01 1998
Wide Awake
This essay is not currently available online.
Poetry
Dec 01 1998
Poetry Feature: David Clewell
“In 1962 Redemption Was in the Air”
“Going Wrong in the House of Neptune”
“Make Way for the Men of Science”
Poetry
Dec 01 1998
Poetry Feature: Robert Gibb
“Hostelries”
“Elegy for Lost Waters”
“First Visit to my Mother’s Grave, North Side Catholic Cemetery”
“Deed”
Poetry
Dec 01 1998
Poetry Feature: Tina Chang
“Defined Space”
“Lessons in Sleeping”
“Curriculum”
Poetry
Dec 01 1998
Poetry Feature: Michael Pettit
“The Menemsha Bell”
“Endless Nights of Rain”
“The Weather of Heaven”
“The Red Swing”
“First Snowfall”
“Good Luck Cottages”