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20.2 - Summer/Fall 2008
2013 Barthelme Prize
Bats
by Lawrence Coates (WInner)
At the Edge of the Kitchen's Light
by Ana Reyes (Honorable Mention)
Cement Man
by Colin Winnette (Honorable Mention)
Fiction
The Sunbathers
by Halimah Marcus
Buffalo Cactus
by Sierra Bellows
Pritch
by Alan Stewart Carl
There's Nothing Here You'd Want
by Pamela Ryder
Poetry
Comfort
by Rosalie Moffett
Look Homeward Angel Now, and Melt with Ruth
by Nick Narbutas
The Golden Calf
by Meghan Privitello
Operation Daily Bread
by Kenny Williams
Insomnia as Art
by Adam O. Davis
Schadenfreude (Memory)
by John James
Lotto
by Jeanne Marie Beaumont
Sam Says Let’s Go To The City & See Joe Strummer
by John R. Beardsley
Half from an Economist, and Half from a Novel
by Carolyn Creedon
Gatekeeper
by Richie Hofmann
after lunch, some poems
by Rodney Koeneke
[Near the end, James]
by Keith Leonard
Pornographic Appeal (Prayer) to Tezcatilpoca
by Joe Wenderoth
Satan is Real
by Joe Wenderoth
Two poems:
Low Note, and
Spring Reflection
by Craig Morgan Teicher
Against Porcelain
by Ines Pujos
Nonfiction
Attempts at Love
by John D'Agata
A Walk Into the Night
by Jennifer Sinor
Archaeology
by Will Boast
John the Baptist
by Timothy Denevi
Reviews
Joanne Dominique Dwyer,
Belle Laide
by Conor Bracken
Kyle Minor,
Praying Drunk
by Julia Brown
Rigoberto González:
Unpeopled Eden
by Katie Condon
Art
To the Lighthouse: Zineb Sedira & Ranjana Khanna in Conversation
by A. Powell, R. Khanna and Z. Sedira
Maintaining Cars, Pools, and Other Modernities: Clarissa Tossin's Brasilia
by Mariola V. Alvarez
Fruit Metaphors, Objects, and Histories: The Work of Fallen Fruit
by Legier Biederman
In this issue
The Big Nothing, or the Gap between David Letterman's Teeth
from On the Proliferation of Breaches and Obstacles
Resume
crying myself to sleep / navigation
to open a door, and find / daylight I never looked at
as I got wilder I had a cedar scent
believe it is not real / died that night
Classroom Observation of Young Animals.
What, has she kissed you? / there is a jar somewhere
amongst the icebergs / little island of dry
Preface
Remarks on the Erasures
Untitled, photo no. 345, 2005-2006. Digital print and collage
Untitled, no. 391, 2007. Ink and collage.
Untitled, no. 084, 2006-2007. Ink, pencil, charcoal, and collage
Untitled, no. 005, 2007. Digital print and collage. 35.5 x 28 cm
Untitled, no. 176, 2007. Digital print and collage. 35.5 x 28 cm
Portrait of Grillo, photo no. 9237, 2006-2007. 125 x 200 cm
Untitled, photo no. 474, 2005-2006. 200 x 66 cm.
Portrait of hombre araña, photo no. 9610, 2006-2007.
An Interview with Miguel Angel Ríos, by Gilbert Vicario
The Art of the Second Book
The Charm of the Highway Strip
When to Walk
I Probably Mean: A Celebration of Grace Paley
Sashenka
How Comics Crashed the Canon
On the Proliferation of Beaches and Obstacles
Vincent Lam's Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures
Breaking Apart the Well-Wrought Object
Trompos
The First Very Bourgeois Gay Love Story
Ruthless Patience
Green Street
Crisscross
Tesserae
from Huracan's Harp, 107
from Huracan's Harp, 41
Half-Life
Devotion
Dancing in My Room Alone
First Date and Still Very, Very Lonely
The Catalans, the Moors
The Dead
Of what avail, Incision
Recitative
Boxing in the Morning Aria
Days of Illness
A Context
Mad Doctors
Recent Apparitions
glory whole [sic]
untimely ripped of plastic
266 (a translation of Petrarch)
189 (a translation of Petrarch)
Synonyms For Churn
Night Morning
Sisters
Faith [First Sick-Boy wrecks...]
Burden
Property
alternative manna la-dee-da-da bonanza
vector
Felon's Logic
History
Morality
Incantation on a Line by Shakespeare
Memorial to a Tree at the Street Corner
This is Lagos
from On the Proliferation
Church Engine
Letter to the Virgin
Dead Man
Sashenka, or The Diary of an Ephemral Death
Albeit
piano solo
[Billboard/whisper]
Nostalgia Piece
The End
Full Circle
One Way or Another
One Thing
Fallout. Shelter
Pulling Teeth
Table of Figures
This Is the Day
Between Worlds
Walk-In Book of Outside
The Country of Husbands
Phone
Taina's Song
Blessed Assurance
Hurricane Lil
Arrhythmia
The Risen
Nine Small Apocalypses (Some of a Hundred or So)
The Persistence of Memory
The Persistence of Memory