MAYDAY Magazine: Issue 4 Summer 2011

July 1, 2011 Contributed By: Adetokunbo Abiola, Aleksandra Bogdanova, Alex Cigale, Alexander Motyl, Alexander Vvedensky, Barbara Hamby, Carrie Shipers, Claire Harlan Orsi, Daniel Wolff, Daniele Pantano, Daniil Kharms, David Allen Sullivan, David Cody, David Hawkins, David Kirby, David Starkey, Emily M. Green, Eric Arnold, Francine Witte, Hannah Stephenson, Jeff Laughlin, Jeremy D. Campbell, Jordan A. Rothacker, Jorge Volpi, Laura Carter, Manua Das, Michael Arkush, Michael Barach, Michelle Askin, Okla Elliott, Patrick Fadely, Rabindra K. Swain, Robert Loss, Robert Walser, Serge Segay, Theodore Worozbyt, Weston Cutter

F E A T U R E S	Aleksandra Bogdanova	в е з д е photographs
	David Kirby & Barbara Hamby	SOUL MAN: LIFE IN RUSSIA, THEN AND NOW essay and photographs
	Jorge Volpi & Okla Elliott	WAYS OF EXPLORING THE WORLD an interview with Jorge Volpi (English and Spanish version)
	Jorge Volpi	SEASON OF ASH an excerpt from the novel

F I C T I O N	Adetokunbo Abiola	SISI EKO
	Jeremy D. Campbell	THE FARMER’S TREATY
	David Cody	HOW BIG IS MATTHEW?
	Robert Loss	LUCKY’S SOLILOQUY
	Jordan A. Rothacker	BLACKTOP EDEN
	Francine Witte	COLD JUNE

P O E T R Y	Michelle Askin	SIBLINGS (FLIGHT FROM REGAN NATIONAL, WASHINGTON, D. C.)
	Eric Arnold	GUAYAQUIL
	Laura Carter	A FACT
	Weston Cutter	WHAT MAYBE CAN MEAN
	Manua Das	WINGED-ANTS translated by Rabindra K. Swain
	Patrick Fadely	FIRST ATHENIANS
	Emily M. Green	A RELATIONSHIP, FOR INSTANCE OXFORD, MISSISSIPPI; MIDSUMMER
	David Hawkins	BLUE THE FIELD
	Daniil Kharms	A TERRIFYING DEATH translated by Alex Cigale
	Jeff Laughlin	TAKING THE MENTAL HURDLES
	George Moore	THE COLOSSUS OF RHODES A STUDENT WRITES OF COLUMBINE
	Alexander Motyl	VIENNA
	John Repp	UHF ODE ANOTHER PIG-KNUCKLE-MOTHER POEM
	Serge Segay	JAM MADE OF LOVERBERRY translated by Alex Cigale
	Carrie Shipers	RESCUE CONDITIONS SAFE RETURN
	David Starkey	SELECTED VIDEOS: 1971-1984
	Hannah Stephenson	I AM GOING TO THE PICNIC
	David Allen Sullivan	SWIRLING SANDS
	Alexander Vvedensky	THE MEANING OF THE SEA translated by Alex Cigale
	Robert Walser	THE READER SUMMER PARADE translated by Daniele Pantano
	Daniel Wolff	SNOWY EGRET
	Theodore Worozbyt	ALEXANDRIA

N O N F I C T I O N	Michael Barach	32, BLUE personal essay
	Claire Harlan Orsi	NOTES TOWARD A GENREFICATION OF LITERARY FICTION critical essay
	Michael Arkush	THE FIGHT OF THE CENTURY: ALI VS. FRAZIER, MARCH 8, 1971 reviewed by Paul-John Ramos

CONTRIBUTOR BIOS

rubella, misha by Martyna Buliżańska
(Translated from Polish by Peter Burzynski)

(sometimes I still write to Twiggy) Misha, if you only saw how dad was hanging up coats yesterday— it was June, we pitted cherries and mother had scratches around her mouth. hands inside her skirt swelled like eyes, though their eyelids could not gather the mold in the bedroom—a train’s sleeping car, gently rocking on […]

The Art of Poetry: Summer of Love
by Stephen Gibson

Clo needs to believe she’ll help to end the war and, with those others she lives with in the Haight, that she’ll actually find peace and love forever. She’s run away with a girlfriend—this is before we meet (which turns out, not too soon—or too late): Clo needs to believe she’ll help to end […]

November
by Donna Fleischer

[Editors’ Note: An edited version of the following poem was published in chapbook form by Casa de Cinca Press. It is reprinted with permission here.] i. Prologue Lithuania, country of my grandmother’s body unfolding in the cave-like cotton motion of her sleeping gown our dreaming feet entwined toward rest there where I had never been […]

MAYDAY Magazine: Issue 4 Summer 2011

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rubella, misha by Martyna Buliżańska
(Translated from Polish by Peter Burzynski)

The Art of Poetry: Summer of Love
by Stephen Gibson

November
by Donna Fleischer

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