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Summer 2004

From the Editor
Thom Didato

E.L. Doctorow
Jonathan Ames
interviews

"Like Love"
fiction by
Karen Shepard

"Jnun in the Age of Metal"
fiction by
Susan Daitch

"Valet Parking"
fiction by
Geoffrey Becker

"Fox Hunting"
fiction by
Frances Sherwood

"Deneb"
"Praesepe"
"White Hole"
poetry by
Mark Cunningham

"frequently asked questions"
"oh juliet"
poetry by
Daphne Gottlieb

"North of Big Sur"
"Cypress Tree"
"Island or House"
poetry by
Michelle Valladares

"The Poet"
"Under"
"Birthing"
poetry by
Katey Nicosia

"Skater Cats"
"The Blue Boa"
"The Muse"
paintings by
Jeremiah Stansbury

"Studio Sink"
"Johnson Laundromat"
paintings by
Catharine Balco

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Deneb

I live near Charlottesville, VA, home of Thomas Jefferson, whose two most famous buildings, Monticello and the Rotunda at the university, are recognized by their back views. Here I am learning a lot about history. I should never have informed Evelyn that there are days when one really needs to go out of one's way to shower. And I should have waited, should still be waiting, to explain to Patsy that her father's illness was not her fault. Tell Joan that I went out with her friend for a couple of weeks because I didn't think she (Joan) would go out with me-that could have been omitted. Probably. I feel worse about these events now than I did at the time, because my relations to these people are more basically me than when I first knew them. The university has been given some Joseph Cornell leftovers, and I went to a lecture about him titled "Love at Last Glance." I decided I wouldn't swamp myself in nostalgia and impotence. (Perhaps that bit about Joan could have been left out: her friend might read it. Too late now). I won't keep myself boxed in. More heat than light, maybe. But I'm still on the look-out, though nearsighted as I am I often can't recognize a woman when she waves from across the street. From behind, though, I can recognize her walk a long block away.

Mark Cunningham received an MFA from the University of Virginia, and still lives in the Charlottesville area. His astronomical poems take as their starting point some element in the shape, symbolism, or scientific knowledge about the title subject, and go from there. Though the title subject might never appear in the poem, its characteristics determine what goes in.

His poems have appeared in Paragraph and Small Spiral Notebook; a selection of his poems on parts of the body, is on the Mudlark website.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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