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MAYDAY Magazine: Issue 2 Winter 2010

January 1, 2010 Contributed By: Aaron Burch, Alexander Keefe, Alyssa Pelish, Anne McPeak, Antara Datta, Anthony Key, Barbara Hamby, Ben George, C. J. Martin, Cai Yuan, Christopher Spranger, Chuck Richardson, Cindy M. Carter, Craig Nova, Dan Venne, Daniele Pantano, David Bowen, David Kirby, David R. Slavitt, Elizabeth Switaj, Geoffrey Gatza, Georg Trakl, Ida Stewart, Jacob Knabb, JJ Xi, Jodee Stanley, Joshua Ware, Kathy Fagan, Kent Johnson, Marcus Slease, Mark Smith-Soto, Marlon Frisby, Mary Kasimor, Maya Kóvskaya, Megan Gannon, Miles Waggener, Miriam Kotzin, Mithu Sen, Naeem Mohaiemen, Nicholas Manning, Nitoo Das, Okla Elliott, Paul Crenshaw, Rana Dasgupta, Randall Radic, Raul Clement, Raymond Hammond, Sabuhi Jiwani, Stephan Clark, T. P. Sabitha, T. R. Hummer, Tao Aimin, Tejal Shah, Tony Trigilio, William Hurst

ART curated by Maya Kóvskaya PRACTICES, POWER & THE PUBLIC SPHERE: Dialogical Space & Multiple Modernities in Asian Contemporary Art
ART

NONFICTION

Maya Kóvskaya Public Action Art and Performative Interventions in the Chinese Public Sphere
ART

NONFICTION

William Hurst
(performance photography by Han Bing)
ORPHANS OF PROGRESS:
Workers and Political Discourse in Post-Socialist China
ART

INTERVIEWS

Rana Dasgupta interviewed by Maya Kóvskaya Carbon: The Residue of Life and Daydreams
ART

NONFICTION

Alexander Keefe LAID OPEN BETWEEN DESIRE AND DISGUST Mithu Sen’s Threshold Poetics a critical introduction to Mithu Sen’s Half Full: Part II
ART

REVIEWS

Subuhi Jiwani (photography by Tejal Shah) HIJROTIC
Towards a New Expression of Desire
a critical introduction to Tejal Shah’s Hijra Fantasy Series
ART

NONFICTION

David Kirby (photography by Barbara Hamby) HEGEL SPOKEN HERE
or Why Germans Just Love to Tell You How Bad They’ve Been
INTERVIEWS moderated by Okla Elliott
responses by Jacob Knabb, Ben George, Anne McPeak, Jodee Stanley, and Aaron Burch
GNOMIC SAVIORS: EDITORS ON EDITING – a roundtable discussion
Craig Nova interviewed by Raul Clement A SORT OF OFFICIAL SILENCE
Dan Venne interviewed by David Bowen AFTER COUGAR’S LAW
Christopher Spranger interviewed by Randall Radic SPRINGING INTO SPRANGER
an open letter to Kent Johnson written by Nicholas Manning,
followed by Johnson’s reply and still further poetic correspondence
A LETTER TO KENT JOHNSON

JOHNSON’S REPLY

WILLIAM CARLOS WRITES EZRA POUND THE DAY AFTER HIROSHIMA

REVIEWS Marlon Frisby THE INFINITIES
by John Banville
TRANSLATIONS

POETRY

poems by Xiao Qiao, translated by Cindy M. Carter CACTUS (THE IMMORTAL PALM) 仙人掌

MOONLIGHT 月光

HOMETOWN 故乡

TRANSLATIONS

POETRY

poems by Ana Istarú, translated by Mark Smith-Soto TO THE PAIN OF CHILDBIRTH

MANGER

MY MOTHER’S DEATH HAS A NAME

TRANSLATIONS

POETRY

poems by Georg Trakl, translated by Daniele Pantano HOHENBURG

IN WINTER

THE YOUNG MAIDEN

POETRY Kathy Fagan LIP
Miriam Kotzin RECLAIMING THE DEAD
David R. Slavitt THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS AND OTHER POEMS
Tony Trigilio WITH THE MEMORY, WHICH IS ENORMOUS
C. J. Martin WIW?3 HOLD ME TIGHT. MAKE ME HAPPY
Mary Kasimor & CRUEL RED
T. R. Hummer MEMOIR

FROM ABROAD

ASSIMILATION

Elizabeth Switaj FESTERING SONG

CRASH & COURSE

BECOMING OCEANIC

AGAINST THE NOTION RAIN FALLS UP

Ida Stewart POINT BLANK

THE MOUNTAINTOP SENDS A POSTCARD FROM THE BREAKS INTERSTATE PARK

T. P. Sabitha RED

FOR BINAYAK SEN

Nitoo Das LETTER FROM RAMABAI TO HER HUSBAND

AN INTRODUCTION

Alyssa Pelish IN SOMNIA
Marcus Slease COVENT GARDEN (CENTRAL LONDON)
Mark McKain MIDDEN NO. 7 AND EXCAVATION
Antara Datta UNTITLED
Megan Gannon, Miles Waggener, Joshua Ware THIS ESSENTIAL DRIFTING
Geoffrey Gatza from PENNILESS POETS OF ISLINGTON
FICTION Stephan Clark FLAVAMERICA
an excerpt from Stephan Clark’s unfinished novel, The Flavorist

Paul Crenshaw ALLEY
Maya Kóvskaya LIKE A TIGER
Jessica Neiweem IDBABY
Chuck Richardson NOTHING HERE IS TRIVIAL
NONFICTION Cindy M. Carter REQUIEM
Jajah Wu THE SECOND SISTER NEVER ESCAPES DEATH

CONTRIBUTOR BIOS

Filed Under: Issues Posted On: January 1, 2010

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It is no secret we are supposed to despise the witch in the traditional fairy tale, but while brutal, this witch is not lonely, nor is she pathetic, and we question whether her violence is unwarranted.

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