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Further Reading
Minor Details and Don’t Look Back
by Joshua Gottlieb-Miller
Minor Details It’s not these artists, exactly, I worship— Chagall hidden in a blue flower, Soutine in swirling carcasses of beef— but the binding they self-fashioned: in red, in black and white, fastened to a dream as if through a firehose. I’ve reduced each generation before me to the story it tells about itself, of […]
Hoping Gloria’s Nepantla Stuff is Real
by J. M. Hall
Nearing affective death, imagination builds, like Lantern’s ring, two grappling hooks. It fires one to the past’s islands of misfit toys, where joshua was winged king leonine. Fires the other to a future where atoms still dream of collisions to lift spray of waterfalls on new islands, new misfit configurations. […]
Orville Wright Lies Prone in a Flying Machine as His Brother Wilbur and Associate Dan Tate Give It a Running Start by Roy Bentley
This isn’t the Wright Flyer. This is a prototype glider. Orville wears a hat since he doesn’t expect great speeds. He isn’t at all worried about a hat; he is Icarus stressing about aeronautical success and lift-to-drag coefficients. It may be white-knuckle joy to have invented the Flyer, but this isn’t that. This […]
