ISSUES | fall 2019

42.3 (Fall 2019): “Luminous Road”
Inside: First fiction by Frederick Hampton and Kathryn Nuernberger on “radical research” in recent books of poetry. Featuring Jacob M. Appel, Jason Brown, Carol D. Guerrero-Murphy, Kathryn Hunt, Frank Montesonti, Luisa Muradyan, Cat Powell, MH Rowe, Diane Simmons, and Emily Sinclair.
CONTENT FROM THIS ISSUE

Fiction
Nov 08 2019
Door to Everything
Galleries know there is a certain type of painting that sells, and every gallery has one or two artists whose work isn’t exciting or edgy but are kept on because… read more

Art
Nov 08 2019
Dream Logic: The Art of Ten Contemporary Surrealists
Once in a dream I sat reclined in an old-fashioned dentist’s chair at the center of an empty stage illuminated by a single white spotlight. Over my right shoulder, a… read more

Curio Cabinet
Nov 08 2019
Stage Pictures: Jo Mielziner and the Art of Set Design
“Literalism has no place in theater.” —Jo Mielziner NOTES FOR THE DESIGNER The set is the bed-sitting-room of a plantation home in the Mississippi Delta. It is along an… read more

Fiction
Nov 08 2019
One or Several Mothers
After installing my mother at the facility, we drove home in shock. My father sat in the passenger seat scratching his unshaven chin and spoke about the threat of rain… read more

Nonfiction
Nov 08 2019
On Chickens, Children, and Fascism
Before I got baby chicks, I attended chicken class at Wardell’s Feed and Pet, a few miles down the highway. Eric, the chicken class teacher, sold me a brooder. If… read more

Fiction
Nov 08 2019
Defensible Space
Sometimes Ned Parrish dreams that his ex-wife has come back and lives out of his converted office and greets him in the hallway like an apologetic stranger. Their daughter, Julie,… read more

Poetry
Nov 08 2019
Poetry: Carol D. Guerrero-Murphy
Spring Teatime, 4 o’clock We sit in the west courtyard. We chat about the times we have nearly died over our long lifetimes. Death is a tossed stone. Memory is… read more

Reviews
Nov 08 2019
Radical Research and the Scientific Method: Tracking a New Trajectory through Four Recent Poetry Collections
Bradfield, Elizabeth. Toward Antarctica. Boreal Books, 2019. 160 pp. $19.95, paper. Lee, Ed Bok. Mitochondrial Night. Coffee House Press, 2019. 88 pp. $16.95, paper. Wahmanholm, Claire. Wilder. Milkweed Editions, 2019.… read more

Poetry
Nov 08 2019
Poetry: Luisa Muradyan
My Favorite YouTube Channel think Beetlejuice without Michael Keaton but with one hundred Geena Davises dressed in floral nightgowns think absolute freedom standing in a house of haunted… read more

Poetry
Nov 08 2019
Poetry: Kathryn Hunt
What Is to Be Done? for S. Reddick, 1976 I’ll answer your question now, the one you asked that evening we sat in your room, the… read more

Nonfiction
Nov 08 2019
Nobody Goes to the Gulag Anymore
At least not in the Czech Republic. But it’s the first thing I need to see. So I take the train from Prague to Pribram, fifty miles to the south.… read more

Fiction
Nov 08 2019
Sarah Campbell’s Story
(1741) Sarah Campbell Howland, Ada Campbell In 1803 Sarah Campbell Howland told her story to her granddaughter, Emma Howland, who wrote the story down and, shortly before she died,… read more

Fiction
Nov 08 2019
Manifold Northeast Life and Trust
I wake early and water the plants. I have a lot of plants, and it takes the better part of an hour to see to them. Most are rescues that… read more

Fiction
Nov 08 2019
Kappelschnitzer in Mourning
The trouble for Dr. Kappelschnitzer started with the obituary: Shirley Kappelschnitzer, 67, beloved wife of Arnold. Life commemoration: Tuesday, April 9, 11… read more

Foreword
Nov 07 2019
Foreword: Luminous Road
Surrealism is often associated with an absurdist worldview and the gloomier aspects of the larger movement of existentialism. Yet André Breton’s defining 1924 Manifesto of Surrealism is playful and hopeful… read more