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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

Filed Under: Issues Posted On: July 1, 2011

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Spring Time Dream
by Barry Silesky

It’s getting worse than I thought it would, as I fade into the old man with the cane and bedroom slippers. This one is stuck in the history he can’t let go, while trying to clear the streets in the city he’s still lost in. I’ve spent my life imagining the next city or the […]

AGNOSTIC HEARS ‘THE LORD’S PRAYER’ IN LATIN by Heather Kirn

Father, no sir.  Your keys are in Cali, sunk to the sediment of no man’s tomb. Vent a pregnant tune.  Feed polenta to a sick kid in Cairo from your tiara. Pan him, know him, quote giddy anthems that no business holds dear. And diminish no busy Lolita, no sir; stick it to no timid […]

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Can you imagine naming a girl freedom? he asks me. Can you even know what that would do to her brain, starting when she was a baby, being someone who gets to go through life doing whatever the fuck she wants?

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