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CONTENTSNOÖ [14]RONTSPACEFP RESENTS 4P ICTURES 10TRUTH Nicholas LockyerP ROSE12P OETRY 28B ACKSPACE46“Deathbound” © Nicholas Lockyer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Editor’s Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Vouched Books Laura Straub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jensen Beach’s For Out of the Heart Proceed Scott Daughtridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Cynthia Arrieu-King’s People Are Tiny In Paintings of China Laura Straub . . . . . .Daniel Bailey’s Hallelujah Giant Space Wolf Erin McNellis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Evan Glasson’s Vital Pursuits Tyler Gobble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Sara Levine’s Short Dark Oracles Laura Straub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20 Good Books: A Reading Journal of 2012 Mike Young . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .We Penetrated Deeper and Deeper Into the Heart of Darkness Nicholas LockyerGreyhound Meagan Cass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .The Body Julianna Spallholz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Junk Movements Nalini Abhiraman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Diary of Hunter Green: #7 & #9 Jeremy Bauer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Windows/Screens Ben Segal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Women Guess & Other Women Ashley Farmer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Land Blood Bank & Turmeric Elizabeth Mikesch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Neon God From the Top Turnbuckle Gene Kwak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .P ICTURES 26Fail You Back Kelly SchirmannTundra Kelly Schirmann. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Poem Morgan Parker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28Car on Fire in the Snow Mike Krutel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29from Everything I Destroyed Was Bad Lisa Ciccarello . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30We Are Both Sure to Die Wendy Xu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31Self-Portrait With New Weapons Systems Hai-Dang Phan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32I Shall Play Unapologetically Russell Jaffe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33Conversations in a Pool Rachael Katz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34Creepshots Anne Boyer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35Poem Composed Entirely With Last Lines in Katha Pollitt Poems James Valvis 36Yes, I Will Go Meghan Privitello . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37Not Quite Mean or Nice But Okay Marit Ericson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38A Vacuum Is Used But Never Used Up Joe Kmiecik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39The Abyss Has No Biographer Chris Toll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40Utterance Emily Toder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41FDR Gets Up From the Table With His Hands Over His Ears Elizabeth J. Colen . . 42Stock-Still Katie Jean Shinkle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43Behind the Times Tony Mancus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44And Afterward Then Parabolic Apple Breath Ron Winkler tr. by Rodney Nelson . . . . . . 45Contributors’ Biographies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46Acknowledgment Billboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47Excerpts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481234566778101112131416182022242627Copyright © 2013 NOÖ Journal, All Rights Reserved. ISSN 1939-4802. For submission guidelines and contact information, please visit www.noojournal.com.
NOÖ [14]Editor’s NoteMike Young — EditorTyler Gobble — Associate EditorMike Young | mike@noojournal.comLET’S, UH. Focus on the high? 2012, guys. 2012. How about it. A whole bunch of things went down—or up insmoke—and for the first year since we started, we didn’t put out an issue of NOÖ. But I like the idea of treatingthirteen as lucky because race car drivers like to say it isn’t, so we’re back and puffier than ever here in 2013.There are lots of developments here at NOÖ. Frisbee golfer and beard-on-fire enthusiast of stoking stokedom TylerGobble has come onboard as an Associate Editor. Welcome, Tyler! I’ve already breathed a lot less raggedly thanks toTyler’s whirlwind of energy and enthusiasm and smarts and help. Case in point: he was instrumental in bringingVouched Books in as a partner for our NOÖ Presents section. This is pretty great because it means you’ll get to readabout even more snazzy indie and small press work, all presented by people who make you go “Oh, they know whatthey’re doing.” In an effort to account for 2012 before we shun it entirely, I’ve also written up an account of twenty goodbooks I read. So many books! So many heads bent earnestly over blankness to make language exist between us all.More envelopments: after years of twitching and weeping into my electrolyte-fortified bottled water, I’ve broughton some eagle folks to help me read submissions for NOÖ. Much thanks and those paper trumpet things to: CharlesHale, Dave K, Madison Langston, Ella Longpre, Erin McNellis, Mark Seidl, Logan Ryan Smith, Nick Sturm, and PatrickTrotti. Y’all it’s really like I’m finally the leader of the Power Rangers y’all. So much khop-kun-krahp to them, which isthank you in Thai if you’re a dude and you’re me trying to spell it phonetically.One of the people who invented the essay was a Sumerian flood survivor. In 2012 on Ko Phi Phi with CarolynZaikowski, I ate massaman curry made by a former Muay Thai boxer. Even butter tasted like coconut. I got somemosquito bites and freaked out about them for no reason. We saw monkeys on Monkey Island, and some jerks fed theminstant coffee. We asked the manager of the guest house where we were staying if he ever got tired of how beautiful KoPhi Phi is, and he said “Yes.” We met a Norwegian lumber speculator who asked me if, being from California, I’dmemorized anything precise about redwoods. Elsewhere in Thailand, we saw a three story golden Buddha, andsomebody sat in the Buddha’s lap, which you’re not supposed to do. One sunset, we saw a bridge light up in a disco way,even though hundreds/thousands of prisoners of war died to make it. Just one of those things. A toothless dog gummedmy ankle. I ate fried bamboo. I drank a kiwi shake made by a woman Carolyn accidentally called beautiful even thoughshe was trying to call the town beautiful. The woman demurred and said “Oh no you are beautiful.”My favorite part of Thailand was the crazy WWII museum in Kanchanaburi, but I should shut up and give you aNOÖ [14] preview, so I am going to pretend the museum and this issue are the same thing. Some ceilings have illustratedproverbs by Morgan Parker. Some walls have cutouts from fashion magazines designed by Nicholas Lockyer. One wallhas a bunch of equipment from Katie Jean Shinkle’s kitchen. Elsewhere there are a million of Rachael Katz’s swordsunder a glass case. A Korean War soldier corpse in one room. One hallway features very unrealistic wax statues of keyWWII players like Lisa Ciccarello. In the middle of the “courtyard square” is a 1970s looking space age Buddha templecapsule built by Hai-Dang Phan. At one point there is a train engine with an old Rolls Royce on top of it, driven by MikeKrutel and Gene Kwak. In a basement room, a placard explains that the museum is protected from earthquakes by thespecific mysticism of Emily Toder. There are a lot of signs with hilarious English translations written by Tony Mancusand Elizabeth Mikesch. One of the outside areas just has some clothes drying. One of the inside murals is of fightingelephant gods.In sad 2012 news, we lost Chris Toll, a visionary Baltimore poet and collage maker. This issue is dedicated to him. Iremember the enormous book of conspiracy theories Chris gave me for my birthday: “the real stuff about the universe,”he said. And I remember him giving me rides home in his VW bug, explaining about the aliens you could see if youwatched the right videos. Start by watching yourself reading NOÖ [14]. And let’s uh. Let’s keep on with the light in.3
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