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20 PEOPLE HIRED TO HUG by the Gao Brothers
Further Reading
VIENNA by Alexander Motyl
There are no vanishing points in Vienna, where every line recedes with crazy alacrity over and over and over again— almost as if the distance between here and the horizon were never constant, always shifting, never focused, quite unlike Franz Joseph’s stern gaze or Wittgenstein’s Tractatus or a slice of Sachertorte. On the other hand, […]
HOMETOWN 故乡 by Xiao Qiao (translated by Cindy M. Carter)
A hometown is a nose bleed (or construction-site cement coursing through your parents’ veins) a warm current that even time cannot resolve Picking up a piece of the past is like picking up a fragment of bone, unearthing night’s dark flesh A hometown isn’t fertile soil (but it is a ferry) a poor and humble […]
Variation 6: Snake by Alice B. Fogel
Have use of edges. Alongside field—crosshatch trees to their meadow pedestal. Way is seam here beneath eaves where when further forest rises and effaces sun camouflaging silver bleed congeals. Smaller than rivers go sleek like rivers and like rivers slip unseen below earthly surface things— pour with invisible volition between storm-tamped weeds—slip clear through stone […]
