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Editorial
For years, while I wrote and tried and failed to publish my first novel, those two stories-those two issues of the review in my bookcase, the one spine bright orange and robin's egg blue, the other two shades of slate purple-were the only evidence 1 had that I was a published writer, that I had work with my name on it in print which, as writers know, is practically the same as saying that they were the only evidence that I existed. The poetry in this issue offers as rich a feast as the fiction and essays, from Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi's translations of sections of Yi Lei's \"Love's Dance,\" which read as if taken from an atlas of dream, to Lauren Brozovich's \"The Ware Collection of Glass Flowers: Delamination,\" in which she \"peels back\" each layer of those glass flowers until she arrives at the human soul that made them. The idea of the \"anxiety of influence\" has always seemed like junk ideation to me, the kind of notion that would only occur to and be persisted in by someone who did not make art himself, who held art at arm's length, perhaps, in his mind, above.
Journal Article
What we lost
What We Lost contains chapters from a novel about two sisters whose relationship is irrevocably changed after one of them suffers a miscarriage at six months pregnant. Sarah, a mother of two children, and the sister of Lacy, who loses her baby, narrates the novel. What We Lost is a story about what happens when sisters, who have been at odds with each other their entire lives but are still best friends, have to deal with a real tragedy. Sarah and Lacy will have to decide if they will allow this tragedy to finally wrench them apart or bring them together at a time when they both need each other the most.
Dissertation
PEN/Hemingway Keynote Address Delivered at the John F. Kennedy Library 19 April 2015
Each year the Ernest Hemingway Foundation and PEN New England award the PEN Hemingway prize for the year’s best first work of fiction. The award is presented at a gala reception at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, Massachusetts. The 2015 PEN Hemingway prize was awarded to Arna Bontemps Hemenway for his book, Elegy on Kinderklavier (Sarabande). This year we are pleased to present the keynote address of Ann Patchett. Patchett is author of six novels, most recently State of Wonder (2011) and numerous works on nonfiction, including This is the Story of a Happy Marriage (2013). Her books have been New York Times bestsellers and New York Times notable books. She has won many awards for her work, including the PEN/ Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize. Patchett has been named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world. A fierce defender of independent bookstores, Patchett co-founded Parnassus Books in Nashville in 2011.
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History’s Echo
The Mississippi Delta's new agricultural landscape has shifted from the land of cotton to the land of soybeans and corn, changing the state's visual landscape almost as much as the site of a Nissan plant built more than ten years ago on 1,400 acres, much of which was once planted in cotton. [...]that resurgence depends more on precise spreadsheet projections rather than any reliance on cheap labor, as evidenced by photographs of the wide expanse of Delta land harvested by a single human figure hidden inside the air-conditioned cabin of a picking machine. [...]it was Walt Whitman's work as a journalist that served as a framework for his poetry.
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Hungry
Acclaimed novelist and short-story writer Jean Thompson (The Year We Left Home) guest-edits this issue of prose and poetry. As she writes in her introduction, \"The thing that gives me hope for the enterprise of writing is the incredible variety and vigor of the terrain.\" With poets ranging from Erin Belieu to the Uruguayan Tatiana Orono, and stories that move from the eerie (Peter Rock's dreamlike story of a mysterious stalker, \"Go-Between\") to the comic (Elizabeth McCracken's story \"Hungry,\" about an overweight young girl) to the tragic (Dan Chaon's \"What Happened to Us,\" about a family transformed by fostering a disturbed child), Thompson's issue celebrates writers as they \"grapple or dance with the world we live in, reflect or distort it, embrace or escape it.\" The issue also features Jesse Lee Kercheval's Plan B essay about learning to play the accordion (\"Welcome to Hell\"), and an exploration of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities by John Domini.
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