Issue 42 - Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art

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SO m e f e a S t FICTION - SAMANTHA GILLISON 24 The Upper Canada Holding Company He could no sooner have been the rabbi his mother wanted than a warlock. STEPHANIE DICKINSON 50 Dalloway & Hannah His robe clings to his breasts, and they're aset of perfect tennis balls. KIRSTY GUNN 70 The Pass All you can imagine is the way ahead, who'll be there, who's waiting. LYDIA DAVIS 135 Enlightened She is 54 years old and no more enlightened, as far as Ican see, than when I first knew her. DALIA AZIM 144 By Way of Toronto It was what she had come to think of when she thought of America: endlessness, emptiness. POETRY- - JAMES DOYLE 23 The Banquet Master mead and cider streaming from the table's / edge JE NIFER MICHAEL HECHT 32 The Way-Out Way Out to our surprise, the mess of lines / forms an image ALLEN GROSSMAN 34 Winter at the Sea Shore Timor Mortis, Inc., ASwitchboard Memory
MARY ZOO 48 Twin Of all the street's windows, only yours dreams. EAMON GRENNAN 65 Feast New Year's Day: Looking for a Sign Morning under Muckish What Shadows Weather Artists In the dormitory of the oak, the saint tended the flame THYLIAS MOSS 80 Ghee Glee Fork Addiction The Culture of Reena and the Bear The Culture of Mr. Wonderful Promise her anything: give her foia gras:/stuff it down her throat L1AM RECTOR 97 Our Hero Galliano New York City Soon the City On the fire escapes / In asleeveless T-shirt / Smoking acigar ERIN BELIEU 104 from In The Red Dress I Wear to Your Funeral Your coffin is atough room. / Mourners talk through my set LUCIA BRYANT 124 La Cabre Oh, he trimmed stalky blades, for sure, / but erratically, whimsically PRISCILLA BECKER 142 Villanelle The Sound of the Closing Door Ihave come to regard the wide arms / of the chair as an only mother. NONFICTION II JOE WENDEROTH 100 from Agony: Agony and the University Theater People are special; their nearness to Agony is unique. Their sadness sometimes overwhelms them. HAMILTON WALTERS 108 Steel Smoke In Subic, mere enlisted rubes metamorphosed into godkings, such was the blessing and curse of being an American with asteady paycheck. JAMES DAVIS 126 Gigi But that year, we left early with our packaged dog, fully upholstered in white curls except for bands of apricot in her ears. EULA BISS 136 Watch Out for Land Mines Teachers have the terribly difficult job of controlling large groups ofpeople who haventyet fully learned how to be controlled STUART LEWIS 157 Pants It was an odd scene because, in the slot, there is asudden absence of social nicety. Patients are attacked on all sides. INTERVIEW II NONFICTION II ART II MARSHA RECKNAGLE 11 When You Walk from This Room Stories that spring from the unconscious sometimes speak the truth. PETER TRACHTENBERG 38 from The Book of Calamities In Rwanda, the killing took place in public. Everybody saw it. All you had to do was look out through your garden gate. .....It........ .. AMY BLOOM 116 interview by Leyla Ertegun Idon't care if it took the author 10 years to write that shitty sentence or five minutes. If it's not good, it's not good. JACK PIERSON ii Self Portrait #15 iv Self Portrait #11 vi Self Portrait #4 x Self Portrait #19 xiv Self Portrait #17 xvi Self Portrait #1
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