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

CHODE! a frequently-impolite excerpt from the forthcoming novel by Mark Spitzer

Old Cappy, also known as Christian Klinefelter III, Captain in the Royal Navy, stood at the helm staring off at the horizon with a posture so stiff he looked as if someone had stuck a stick up his arse. It was 1789 and The Ophelia was somewhere off the Russian coast. Where they were, he didn’t have […]

Craig Nova interviewed by Raul Clement: A SORT OF OFFICIAL SILENCE

The author of eleven novels, Craig Nova has been lauded by critics and fellow writers and has received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship. His writing is remarkable for its linguistic precision and attention to structure. But he is far more than a writer’s writer—his plots are engaging and often employ elements of genre to […]

AGAINST THE NOTION RAIN FALLS UP by Elizabeth Switaj

for Diana Manister the dead are peaceful equals rain falls up Axiom of Bibles not named book minus obtuse angel a transitive property of geometric faiths dead vanish into torments dreamed to peel real fantom flesh w/o chance of Heaven perfection lost w/o-ne set o’ praisesong wings equals water without sin dead vanish into […]

MAYDAY Magazine: Issue 4 Summer 2011

Further Reading

CHODE! a frequently-impolite excerpt from the forthcoming novel by Mark Spitzer

Craig Nova interviewed by Raul Clement: A SORT OF OFFICIAL SILENCE

AGAINST THE NOTION RAIN FALLS UP by Elizabeth Switaj

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