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Reminiscence
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Worcester: A Free People’s Workshop
Nobody told us our voices were wrong.
Poetry
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On Death: Little Odes
Contraction’s flash: / My love, I know / It’s you.
Translated from the Portuguese by Julia Powers
Fellow
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Meeting Points: Between and In Between Subject and Object
The articulation of a word dissolves, and the most carefully strung together sentence falls apart.
Poetry
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Eternal Return
Nietzsche says that we live / our lives to live them again, / exactly as they were lived.
Portrait
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Pita in the Arms of God
I believe in the time of my glands and arteries.
Translated by Christina MacSweeney
Feature
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Almanac
History is in the panorama, buried like old stones or sediment from an older era.
If You See Something
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Ekphrases: Bennett Sims on the Edge of Death
There is a famous photograph taken at the edge of death: inside a car parked by the sidewalk are all manner of large dogs, looking directly into the camera.
Fiction
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Li Ling
In the ninth lunar month of Tianhan 2 (99 B.C.E.), during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Commander of the Cavalry Li Ling led a force of five thousand foot soldiers north from the border fort of Zheluzhang.
Translated from the Japanese by Paul McCarthy
Cannibal Translation
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True History: A Rendering
You need to think carefully / about what I don't know how to tell you
Translated from the Spanish by Chloe Garcia Roberts
Fiction
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A Lot of Good It Does Being in the Underworld
It's not damnation that sends you there. It's the instinct for return.