Index

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

Vallance, Sarah
Heart Attack (nonfiction): PR31, 77

Vandenberg, Katrina
Cretaceous Moth Trapped in Amber (Lament in Two Voices) (poetry): PR16, 97
Palinode for Being Thirty-Four (poetry): PR16, 99

Van Aelst, Kevin
Paradigm Shift (art): PR27, cover

van den Berg, Laura
Victor Lavalle’s Big Machine (recommendation): PR20, 127

van Loenen, Rocco
Technical Drawing I (theatre): PR1, 59
Technical Drawing II (theatre): PR1, 77

Van Ouwerkerk, Jo Ellen
Birds Flying Backwards (art): PR29, 42

Van Winckel, Nance
Shortly Before the First Time My Nephew Went to Jail + One of My Cousin’s Photos From the War + Dang It + Ordinary Exchange (nonfiction): PR38, 77

Vasicek, René Georg
Confessions of a Pilsner Drinker (nonfiction): PR14, 179

Vasileff, Jill
Pink Hum (art): PR31, 42

Veltfort, Sophia
Bishop Street (fiction): PR33, 131

Venugopal, Shubha
Lalita and the Banyan Tree (fiction): PR14, 19

Vergano, Cristina
Please Leave When It Is Wise To (art): PR29, 48

Veslany, Kathleen
The Aperture Between Two Points (nonfiction): PR2, 76

Vida, Vendela
Olt, By Kenneth Gangemi (recommendation): PR10, 189

Villareal, Laura
Imagine Us, the Swarm (recommendation): PR39, 201

Villemez, Jason
The First Time (fiction): PR35, 101

Vines, Adam
Charter (poetry): PR23, 71
Floundering (poetry): PR23, 72

Voigt, Jeremy
Freakishly Beautiful Head (poetry): PR26, 190
Out of Sorts (poetry): PR26, 192

Voisine, Don
Dub Stride (art): PR28, 72

Volkman, Karen
Untitled (poetry): PR1, 104
Untitled (poetry): PR1, 105

Volpe, Eugenio
Theater of the Cruel (fiction): PR9, 44

Voras-Hills, Angela
In Which I Hoard the Air Escaping (poetry): PR26, 27
Wait in the Bathtub and It Will Carry You (poetry): PR26, 28

Vorenkamp, Jaclyn Van Lieu
Going Sailing (fiction): PR32, 33

Vu, Thuan
Transients (First Communion) (art): PR29, 43

Index

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

Talbot, Kellie
Sputniks (art): PR35, cover

Talusan, Grace
The Start (nonfiction): PR24, 114

Tarkington, Ed
Southern Culture on the Skids (nonfiction): PR9, 108

Taylor, Al
Portrait, Drawings, Sculpture (art): PR2, 29

Taylor, Justin
Student Paper (fiction): PR29, 30

Taylor, Mark C.
L’Entretien Infini (The Infinite Conversation), by Maurice Blanchot (recommendation): PR2, 178

Taylor, Ravenna
Rhyme Scheme V (art): PR28, 74

Teague, Alexandra
A Brief History of Ice (poetry): PR36, 99

Tebbano, Greg
Lights Will Not Illuminate the Exits (fiction): PR39, 35

Index

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

Sainz, Leslie
Liberation War + On National TV (poetry): PR39, 109

Salesses, Matthew
The Vegetarian, by Han Kang (recommendation): PR32, 125

Salinger, J.D.*
Salinger V. Random House, Inc., 811 F.2D 90 (2nd Cir. 1987) (etcetera): PR9, 193

Salopek, Paul
Missives: Four Ways of Trying to Hold Onto It (etcetera): PR11, 83

Salvatore, Joe
Unhemlech (fiction): PR10, 99

Samelson, Henry
Streaming (art): PR32, cover

Sampsell, Kevin
Love & Trouble, by Claire Dederer (recommendation): PR34, 57

Sandler, Lauren
Hip Hop High: Mainstream Black Culture in the White Suburbs (criticism): PR5, 13

Santos, Richard Z.
On One Hundred Years of Solitude (recommendation): PR38, 65

Sardy, Marin
Disintegration, Loops (nonfiction): PR26, 65

Saroldi, Anna
Solo A Metà (poetry): PR 34, 164

Saterstrom, Selah
Divinatory Experiment, A Selection from Installation #9: Revenge of the Nerds: Ideal Suggestion (Love) (fiction): PR25, 89

Saunders, George
Questionnaire (etcetera): PR14, 219

Savelyev, Simon
The Disappearing Wife (fiction): PR28, 190

Savitch-Lew, Abby
Boombox and Neon Flowers (fiction): PR18, 21

Saweda, Yalie
Memorializing Nia Wilson: 100 Blessings (poetry): PR39, 101

Scalise, Mike
Writing Him Off (nonfiction): PR15, 201

Scanlon, Elizabeth
Closing Time (poetry): PR5, 43
Quarry (poetry): PR5, 44

Scapellato, Joseph
Father’s Day (fiction): PR20, 57

Shaefer, Rick
Rhino (art): PR30, 55

Schaeffer, Alicia
The Tapping In 1L (fiction): PR30, 143

Schaffzin, Eliezra
Once In Cuba (nonfiction): PR22, 93

Schappell, Elissa
The Selected Letters of Dawn Powell, 1913-1965, As Edited by Tim Page (recommendation): PR12, 160

Scheffler, Adam
The Butterfly House + Climate Change (poetry): PR38, 109

Scheibe, Amy
Nox, by Anne Carson (recommendation): PR20, 181

Scheid, Liz
What They Don’t Tell You About Breast-Feeding (poetry): PR16, 259
What I’m Not Telling You (poetry): PR16, 260

Schilpp, Margot
The Bone People, by Keri Hulme (recommendation): PR4, 118

Schireson, Peter
Cauliflower Soup (poetry): PR23, 25
Storm Damage (poetry): PR23, 26

Schleifer, David
The Best Way to Get Good Taste (criticism): PR19, 49

Schlossberg, Linda
”Gorilla, My Love” (recommendation): PR26, 163

Schmidt, Heidi Jon
Futility, by William Gerhardie (recommendation): PR9, 161

Schmidtberger, Paulstrong>
A Class Act (nonfiction): PR27, 81

Schmoll, Ken Rus
Responsibility, Justice, And Honesty: Rehearsing Edward Bond’s Saved (theatre): PR3, 51

Schneider, JL
God’s Child (poetry): PR30, 47
Sunday Solstice (poetry): PR30, 48

Schrank, Ben
All Souls Day, by Cees Nooteboom (And Other Books That Yearn) (recommendation): PR6, 151

Schubach, Alanna
Raw Material (fiction): PR20, 131

Schuller, Kyla
The Americans Who Matter: Micheal Moore’s White Liberal Racism in Bowling for Columbine (criticism): PR9, 11

Schulman, Audrey
Pippi And Mr. Hyde (recommendation): PR25, 13

Schutt, Christine
The Artist and His Sister Gerti (fiction): PR6, 91

Schutz, Lacy
Introduction to Daniel Hill: Paintings (art): PR8, 34 The Water and The Weakened Link (poetry): PR17, 97

Schutzman, Steven
The Bank (theatre): PR 11, 119

Schwabe, Liesl
Blue Window (nonfiction): PR8, 108

Schwartz, Julia
1.9.31.24 (art): PR28, 71

Schwartz, Lynne Sharon
A Treatise on Shelling Beans, by Wieslaw Mysliwski, Translated by Bill Johnston (recommendation): PR28, 20

Shwartz, Matthew
The Island Itself, by Roger Fanning (recommendation): PR18, 203

Schwartz, Mimi
A Vine of Roses (nonfiction): PR30, 113

Scott, James
How We Looked (fiction): PR21, 65
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick Dewitt (recommendation): PR25, 147

Scott, Susan Still
Fish Head (art): PR31, 47

Scott, Timothy
Herrenvolk (fiction): PR32, 113

Searle, Elizabeth
Black Tickets Then and Now (recommendation): PR4, 120
Libretto: Tonya and Nancy: The Opera (etcetera): PR12, 139

Searle, Elizabeth*
Interview (etcetera): PR8, 199

Sebree, Chet’la
Joy Priest’s Horsepower (recommendation): PR38, 241

Seigel, Andrea
Behind the Attic Wall, by Sylvia Cassedy (recommendation): PR12, 217

Semanki, David
Cinéma Vérité (poetry): PR11, 145
Double Feature (poetry): PR11, 147

Seven, Joseph
Ralph in Shadows (art): PR29, 35

Seward, Scott
Why Baltimore House Music is the New Dylan (criticism): PR3, 85

Sexton, Adam Reid
The Centaur by John Updike (recommendation): PR27, 167

Shankar, Ravi
Cape Sagres to Lisbon and Back Again (poetry): PR19, 31
Surface Tension (poetry): PR19, 32

(with Priya Sarukkai Chabria)
Aandaal: The Autobiography of a Goddess (poetry): PR22, 121

Shapiro, Janice
Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, The Flesh, and L.A. by Eve Babitz (recommendation): PR21, 63

Shapiro, Norm
Henry Hitchings’ The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English (recommendation): PR18, 117

Shattuck, Jessica
The Stories of John Cheever (recommendation): PR11, 139

Sheehy, Hugh
On Akutagawa’s Kappa (recommendation): PR26, 183

Sheffield, Derek
Song of Argos (poetry): PR26, 96

Shelby, Ashley
A River in Charleston (nonfiction): PR5, 115

Shepard, Jim
The Invention of Truth, by Marta Morazzoni (recommendation): PR2, 177

Sheppard, Gary
Accompaniment (fiction): PR29, 141

Sheridan, David M.
Infrared (poetry): PR38, 185

Sherman, Rachel
Homestay (fiction): PR2, 57

Shi, Diana (trans.)
Glenn Gould by Wang Jiaxin (poetry): PR28, 169 Meeting Rain, Wutai Mountain by Wang Jiaxin (poetry): PR28, 171

Shields, David
Life and Art (etcetera): PR2, 147

Shindler, Polly
Spaces (art): PR34, 65

Shippy, Peter Jay
Cellist (poetry): PR7, 24
Dogs Resembling Their Owner (poetry): PR7, 25

Shirley, Skye
Daughters of a Boardinghouse Keeper (poetry): PR23, 77

Sholl, Betsy
Still Life with Light Bulb (poetry): PR26, 109
Poco a Poco (poetry): PR26, 110

Shonk, Katherine
”The Return,” by Andrei Platonov, from The Return and Other Stories (recommendation): PR9, 165

Shteir, Rachel
Anatole Broyard’s Kafka was The Rage (recommendation): PR26, 117

Shutan, Suzan
Flock (Detail) (art): PR28, 80
TIC (art): PR31, 36

Siasoco, Ricco Villanueva
Dandy (fiction): PR28, 200

Siegel, Gail
Falling Objects: Chicago (etcetera): PR10, 191

Siegel, Robert Anthony
The Magic Box (fiction): PR11, 178
Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the West, by Cormac Mccarthy (recommendation): PR15, 139

Siegel, Zoë
Images of Sculptures and Drawings (art): PR2, 19

Silver, Douglas
Way of the Dog (fiction): PR38, 111

Simmons, Alessandra
The Bridges are on the Ground (poetry): PR22, 159
Chord & Hem (poetry): PR22 160

Simon, Jeremy
How to Reach Me: A Manual (nonfiction): PR2, 70

Simonds, Sandra Isabel
Rare Children (nonfiction): PR17, 49

SSimonian, Kate Osana
Witness (fiction): PR33, 51

Sinor, Shara
Ghost of Ten (nonfiction): PR13, 56

Sitler, Helen Collins
On Inis Mór (nonfiction): PR38, 69

Skloot, Floyd
Elliptical Journey (nonfiction): PR24, 102

Skurtu, Tara
Camel in the Room (poetry): PR32, 191

Slater, Tracey
Journal: Erasing Gender: A Woman’s Journey Through Men’s Lockup (etcetera): PR13, 23

Salvin, Julia
Maile Chapman (recommendation): PR1, 167
Dream Trailers (fiction): PR13, 173

Smidt, Remy
Bells (fiction): PR31, 137

Smith, Cary
Lucy Mink: Strangely Familiar Places (art): PR24, 76
Pointed Splat #2 (art): PR28, 73

Smith, Charles
Dan Shea (recommendation): PR1, 168p>

Smith, Curtis
How to Remember the Dead (nonfiction): PR23, 19

Smith, Laura, Steadham
What We Gained in the Winter (fiction): PR34, 147

Smith, RJC
Uh-Oh, Love Comes to Town (fiction): PR 37, 181

Smith, Suzanne Farrell
The Pearl (nonfiction): PR25, 185

Smith, Tracy K.
A Hunger So Honed (poetry): PR7, 15
Self-Portrait as the Letter Y (poetry): PR7, 17

Smithee, Alan
The Strange, Entertaining, and Sometimes Behind-the-Scenes Story of Cleo Birdwell and Don Delillo (etcetera): PR2, 105

Snediker, Michael
O. Henry (recommendation): PR3, 70

Snyder, Laurel
The Simple Machines (poetry): PR6, 43
Happily Ever After (poetry): PR6, 44

Sohail, Mahreen
The Dog (fiction): PR33, 19

Solar-Tuttle, Rachel
Words—Lean, Lyrical, Authentic—Bring Children From Shadows (recommendation): PR8, 157

Solms, Liz
In Jamaica (nonfiction): PR26, 22

Sorrentino, Christopher
Light While There is Light, by Keith Waldrop (recommendation): PR14, 105

Soth, Alec
Untitled 04, Bogotá (art): PR19, cover

Soto, Renee
At the Drive-in Volcano, by Aimee Nezhukumatathil (recommendation): PR17, 168

Sousa, Brian
Just Kids by Patti Smith (recommendation): PR28, 56

Sowder, Michael
Dinner and a Movie, Green Canyon, Utah (poetry): PR23, 86
That June Morning (poetry): PR34, 137

Spackman, Elizabeth Senja
Unheimlich (Not at Home) (poetry): PR19, 121
After the Sex, Smile or Something Like it (poetry): PR19, 122

Spalding, Lavinia
Teaching Korea (etcetera): PR4, 134

Spark, Debra
Size Matters (recommendation): PR15, 213

Spatz, Gregory
Mermaid (fiction): PR38, 167

Spece, Joseph
Yes, but Tenderness Becomes Me Best—A Sort of Dyingness (poetry): PR17, 73

Spencer, Bailey
Iphigenia, Ascending (poetry): PR32, 198

Spiher, David
Paintings (art): PR13, 65

Spiotta, Dana
Trance, by Christopher Sorrentino (recommendation): PR14, 43

Sprague, Devon
Trash and Bastard Out of Carolina, by Dorothy Allison (recommendation): PR22, 151

Stace, Wesley (see also Harding, John Wesley)
Listerine: The Life and Opinions of Laurence Sterne (etcetera): PR5, 174
The Lost Stradivarius, Moonfleet, and The Nebuly Coat: The Abnormal Responses of John Meade Falkner (recommendation): PR11, 89
Journal: (Unexpurgated) Tour Journal (etcetera): PR16, 221

Standley, Vincent
Travelogue (fiction): PR8, 71

Stanforth, Sherry Cook
Interpreting the Passage + Of Course (poetry): PR37, 96

Starke, Jonathan
I Probably Let Some of it Slip Once (nonfiction): PR20, 179

Stattmann, Jon
Trial by Trash (nonfiction): PR11, 39

Staudinger, Christopher
Winter House (nonfiction): PR27, 74

Stienbach, Meredith
Silver Jingle Bobs, The Importance of (fiction): PR21, 109

Stender, Oriane
Endless Column (art): PR28, 77

Stenson, Peter
We Smoked in Silence (nonfiction): PR21, 139

Stern, Amanda
De Profundis by Oscar Wilde (recommendation): PR23, 194

Stevens, J. David
Obituary (nonfiction): PR36, 147

Stevens, Kelsey
The Locals (art): PR30, cover

Steward, D.E.
Desembre (fiction): PR6, 118

Stitch, Guillermo
The House (fiction): PR38, 139

Stine, Alison
Three Months, No Kidding (poetry): PR7, 26
Salt (poetry): PR7, 27

Stinetorf, Alice G.
Lynx (fiction): PR29, 55

Stone, Bianca
Pavor Nocturnus with Relativity (poetry): PR20, 85
Someone Will Have to Tell You (poetry): PR20, 85

Stone, Laurie
“When I Expect to Achieve Nothing, Ideas Come” — Édouard Levé, Autoportrait (recommendation): PR35, 45

Stone, Nomi
Kill Class (poetry): PR35, 168
On the 4th of July (poetry): PR35, 169
Creation Myth (How Role-Players Came to Speak) (poetry): PR35, 170

Stoneking, Jason
Suicide and Marrowfat Peas (nonfiction): PR32, 161

Strand, Mark*
A Conversation (etcetera): PR16, 118

Strayed, Cheryl
When the Farmer Clutches the Rake: Writing the Real (nonfiction): PR22, 90

Strayer, Julia
The Goldfish (fiction): PR30, 169

Strempek Shea, Suzanne
Reading the Future: Twelve Writers from Ireland in Conversation with Mike Murphy, Edited by Cliodhna Ni Anluain (recommendation): PR13, 37

Stubbs, SM
Uncertainty + Sparring After Sunset (poetry): PR39, 95

Stumpf, Jason
Proof (poetry): PR11, 105
The Lesson of the Birds (poetry): PR11, 106

Sukrungruang, Ira
Spotlighting (nonfiction): PR12, 83

Sullivan, Felicia C.
The Business of Leaving (fiction): PR6, 94

Sullivan, Mary
The Holy Bible: King James Version (recommendation): PR5, 145

Suzuki, Naoe
Splendor of Amazing Boys, Girls, and Animals (art): PR18, cover

Swofford, Anthony
Gerhard Richter’s Motor Boat (First Version) [Motorboot (Erste Assung)] (poetry): PR13, 17
Nine Rhythms in Nine Days: A-Frame Near Sisters, Oregon (poetry): PR13, 18

Szporluk, Larissa
Barcarole (poetry): PR1, 100
Sensilla (poetry): PR1, 102

Szuber, Janusz*
De Se Ipso, Trans. Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbbrough (poetry): PR9, 131
New Labors, Trans. Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbbrough (poetry): PR9, 132

Index

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Wade, Barry K.
Winter Sky (fiction): PR21, 127

Wagoner, David
The Other Man (poetry): PR26, 113
Spending the Night (poetry): PR26, 114
The Categorical Imperative Poem (poetry): PR26, 115

Waite, Urban
The Lost World (recommendation): PR25, 57

Waldman, Ayelet
An Ice Cream War, By William Boyd (recommendation): PR14, 17

Waldrep, G. C.
Lullabye for My Sister (poetry): PR12, 163
Feast of All Wounds (poetry): PR12, 164
Die Fledermaus (poetry): PR16, 191
Sisyphus in Paradise (poetry): PR16, 192

Waldron, Nicola
Afterbirth (nonfiction): PR33, 15

Walker, Nicole
Drought-Tolerant Tamarisk (Tamarix) Aphylla (nonfiction): PR17, 133

Wallace, Eric J.
The Child Shaman (fiction): PR25, 167

Wallaert, Josh
Upcountry (fiction): PR26, 251

Walsh, William
Recommending “First Love” By Samuel Beckett (recommendation): PR21, 55

Wamsted, Jay
Sticks and Stones (nonfiction): PR38, 243

Ward, Nicholas
The Backyard (nonfiction): PR28, 115

Warf, Robert
Wreckage (nonfiction): PR39, 65

Warloe, Constance
Introduction to From Daughters & Sons to Fathers: What I’ve Never Said (etcetera): PR2, 129

Warrell, Laura K.
Becoming Abigail, By Chris Abani (recommendation): PR28, 235

Warren, Robert Burke
Cloud Atlas By David Mitchell (recommendation): PR32, 73

Warren, Suzanne
The Raspberry King (fiction): PR33, 136

Washington, Thomas
Have You Read My Manuscript? (nonfiction): PR9, 83

Wasow, Oliver
Hay (art): PR24, cover

Waters, Lindsay
Rebuilding Aesthetics From The Ground Up (criticism): PR20, 21

Watson, Brad
Willard and His Bowling Trophies, A Perverse Mystery, By Richard Brautigan (recommendation): PR10, 159

Watterson, Zachary
Open Late Hours (nonfiction): PR23, 167

Webster, Kerri
I Am Become a Blunt Instrument (poetry): PR35, 11

Weinberger, Eliot
At the Sign of The Hand (etcetera): PR9, 188

Weitzel, Wil
How to Sleep With Lions (fiction): PR29, 125

Welle, John P. (trans.)
Translating Brecht, By Franco Fortini (poetry): PR4, 30

Weller, Anthony
The Works of Robert Dean Frisbie (recommendation): PR12, 151

Weller, Sam
The Illustrated Man, By Ray Bradbury (recommendation): PR15, 147

Wells, Brandi
Gather the Daughters By Jennie Melamed (recommendation): PR36, 23

Wheeler, Theodore
Uwe Johnson (recommendation): PR33, 105

Wheelock, Jennifer
Talking Faith With A Friend (poetry): PR31, 142
Regarding His Alzheimer’s (poetry): PR31, 144

Whitcomb, Katharine
Early Medieval (poetry): PR11, 202
Dream On His Birthday (poetry): PR11, 206

White, Derek
Coati Mundi (fiction): PR11, 207

Whiteside, Jim
Cento (poetry): PR29, 151
Saudade (poetry): PR29, 152

Whitney, Kim Ablon
Ann Patchett (recommendation): PR31, 183

Wickenden, Andrew
Story (fiction): PR127, 151

Williams, Dawn
Directing Grand Guignol (theatre): PR1, 61

Williams, Diane
Well-To-Do Person (fiction): PR6, 103
My First Real Home (fiction): PR16, 247

Williams, E. Genevieve
Solstice 6 (art): PR26, 42
Solstice 7 (art): PR26, 47

Williams, Greg
Blue Angel, By Francine Prose (recommendation): PR12, 199

Williams, Jenny D.
Baho! By Roland Rugero (recommendation): PR34, 175

Williams, Tyrone
How On Earth (poetry): PR25, 99
Wah Wah (poetry): PR25, 100

Williamson, Sean
Fever On Good Friday (fiction): PR37, 193

Wilson, Jason
What Is the Color of Hope In Haiti? (etcetera): PR3, 168

Wilson, Jonathan
Chiara (fiction): PR28, 225

Winn, Tracy
Cynthia Morrison Phoel’s Cold Snap (recommendation): PR21, 153

Winthrop, Elizabeth Hartley
Dirt Music, By Tim Winton (recommendation): pr14, 81

Wisdom, Alison
What Can a Ship Do for an Island? (fiction): PR34, 169

Wise, Marie Gray
Pennsylvania School of Ballet Closes Due to Snow + About Girls Standing On Steps (poetry): PR37, 117

Wisniewski, Mark
Calculus (poetry): PR14, 37
Land (poetry): PR14, 40

Wolff, Rebecca
Mamma Didn’t Raise No Fools (poetry): PR2, 96
A Good Idea, But Not Well-Executed (poetry): PR2, 98

Wolos, Gregory J.
The Wild Pandas of Chincoteague (fiction): PR27, 89

Wood, Ann
The Road to Los Angeles, By John Fante (recommendation): PR14, 215

Wood, Monica
We Need to Talk About Kevin, By Lionel Shriver and George Eliot’s Later Novels (recommendation): PR13, 179

Woodward, Angela
Carnality (fiction): PR31, 166

Woodward, Kristine
Knox Martin – Woman: Black and White Paintings (art): PR21, 33
Richard Hambleton: The American Pop Expressionist (art): PR27, 33

Worden, Olivia
Delivery (fiction): PR30, 179

Wormser, Baron
Fictional Essay: John Berryman, B. 1914 (etcetera): PR13, 95
Southern California Ode (1969) (poetry): PR26, 101
Climate (poetry): PR26, 103

Wright, Carolyne
Betty Carter at the Blue Room (poetry): PR27, 157
Dixie White House Photo (poetry): PR27, 159
Not On My Resume (poetry): PR35, 193
Don’t Tell the Flies (poetry): PR35, 195

Wright, Charles
W. G. Sebald (recommendation): PR2, 179

Wunderlich, Mark
Device for Burning Bees and Sugar (poetry): PR8, 13
It’s Your Turn to Do the Milking, Father Said (poetry): PR8, 15

Wuori, G. K.
The Home for Wayward Clocks By Kathie Georgio (recommendation): PR27, 177

Wurth, Erika T.
Brandon Hobson: The Cherokee Novelist Who Quietly Kicked Off the Fifth Wave In Native American Fiction (recommendation): PR38, 97

Heimlich + Silkwood

David Moolten


Heimlich

For Shira

In German, it’s just a word
that means secret, like a three-year-old
in the dining room, no witnesses
crowding around as at the Y
where I’d stand like a dummy asking one
are you okay? before going 
through the motions, the important things
moron-proof like footprints
painted on the floor at a dance studio.
I’ve memorized screaming Jesus
while my daughter rises
as if to offer a toast and speaks pantomime.
She’d swallowed a grape, a precursor to wine
in the sacristy, a ball valve’s physics
suddenly the abyss
whose mystery I must embrace, a tango
more than repeating the steps,
though if one believes I guess it’s all inspired
flailing, one long maneuver which fails
because c’est la vie. She begged a meal of air, 
higher you’d call it sky,
and despite the sermon about groping
pushing what’s stuck farther down,
who could blame my hands
for taking matters in their own hands?
Blessed are the morons,
for they’re used to amazement
as a punchline,the inexpressible
as their final answer.


Silkwood

I live in Philly, plutonium in Apollo, a small town
where they buried thousands of tons
I don’t visit when I drop by to see you in Pittsburgh. 
We have so little in common 
anymore, lo these years between us five seconds 
in plutonium’s day-planner, a single breath 
of dust enough. I read somewhere a jar 
with Karen Silkwood on the label
and something in formaldehyde 
still sits on a shelf at Los Alamos.
Of all the women arrested for hugging 
a fence on Three Mile Island
who gave her name, it was you
I’d skinny-dipped with in the Susquehanna, your mist
and body heat when we stood
wrapped in the same towel
time reminds me of, not plumes of tainted steam.
I read somewhere the chemicals
we know as thoughts 
weigh a trillionth of an ounce. Half my life 
is gone. Plutonium remains, more patient 
than landfills, the latest movie 
or topic of conversation, apostrophe mostly 
for effect the way Geiger counters sound
like dry leaves getting crushed 
or how I feel when I realize 
I’ve loved ten people since. Compare and contrast 
with cancer, the dumb dirt’s steady beacon.


David Moolten‘s most recent book, Primitive Mood, won the T.S. Eliot Prize (Truman State University Press, 2009). He lives & writes in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Index

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Abbott, Alysia
*HED: The Invention of Solitude, by Paul Auster (recommendation): PR35, 79

Abend, Lisa
The Deptford Trilogy, by Robertson Davies (recommendation): PR23, 165

Abraham, Pearl
John Dos Passos: USA Trilogy (recommendation): PR20, 49

Abrams, Eve
Redemption Window (nonfiction): PR15, 143

Ackerman, Alan
Unfold (poetry): PR34, 138

Adnot, Becky
A Natural Progression of Things (fiction): PR17, 17

Aguero, Kathleen
We Didn’t Come Here for This: A Memoir in Poetry, by William B. Patrick (recommendation): PR15, 193

Airy, Kaitlyn
Sabbath + I Will Not Be Embalmed and Placed Behind an Iron Gate (poetry): PR38, 37

Albergotti, Dan
Jack Gilbert’s The Great Fires (recommendation): PR18, 19

Albert, Elisa
Stacey Richter Kicks Ass (recommendation): PR17, 123

Albert, Elizabeth
Paintings (art): PR18, 65
Triangle (art): PR30, 51
Gowanus Muskrat (art): PR30, 59

Albertsen, Dawsen Wright
Chris Stops the Boys (fiction): PR16, 14

Albo, Mike
Kill Fee Lit—After Reading George Gissing’s New Grub Street (recommendation): PR13, 207

Adams, River
Lucky (fiction): PR40, 33

Aleshire, Benjamin
Deepfake Ashbery (poetry): PR38, 250

Alexander, Jessica
The Pith (fiction): PR40, 45

Alfier, Jeffrey
Ashbury Park, Just Before Winter (poetry): PR20, 145
Words for a Night Singer (poetry): PR20, 147
Ode to Trains Departing Billings Railyard (poetry): PR31, 25
River Country (poetry): PR31, 26

Allen, Joy
Sunday Lunch and Black Hole (fiction): PR27,163

Allison, Will
Hitless Wonder: A Life in Minor League Rock and Roll, by Joe Oestreich (recommendation): PR25,127

Almond, Steve
The Emperor, by Ryszard Kapuscinski (recommendation): PR6, 141
Essay: An Inquiry into the Psychological Roots of America’s Death Fetish, or, Where’d You Hide the Body? (etcetera): PR11, 197

Alomar, Osama
Other Suns (fiction): PR35, 120
The Planet Earth (fiction): PR35, 121
Seasons (fiction): PR35, 122

Alvarez, Julia
Recommended Reading (recommendation): PR5, 129

Ames, Greg
Dummies (fiction): PR32, 127

Ames, Jonathan
A Boy’s Guide to Drinking and Dreaming (recommendation): PR2, 153
Deep in Queens (theatre): PR7, 123
The Story of My Son (theatre): PR7, 125
Twenty Questions (etcetera): PR11, 216

Anderson, E. Kristin
When We Left Medicine Behind (poetry): PR24, 167
Quantum Physics and You (poetry): PR24, 168

Anderson, Ilona
What One Is (DETAIL) (art): PR29, 41

Ansay A. Manette
Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping (recommendation): PR13, 196

Anthenien, Catherine
Bazaar (art): PR1, 11

Antosca, Nick
Young Men and Fire, by Norman Maclean (recommendation): PR14, 191

Apostol, Gina
But For the Lovers, by Wilfredo Nolledo (recommendation): PR19, 16

Appel, Rosaire
Bearings (art): PR31, cover

Aptowicz, Cristin O’Keefe
What I Meant When I Said Failure (poetry): PR26, 161
Through the Looking Glass (poetry): PR26, 162

Armbrust, Hannah
When Asked to Explain the Fall of Mankind (poetry): PR20, 78

Armstrong, Mary
Paintings (art): PR7, 66

Armstrong, R.S.
Most Fertile Soil (poetry): PR17, 59
Phrases from Overwhelming Desire (poetry): PR17, 60

Aronstein, A-J
#GentlemanlyPursuits In Pail Kahan’s Chicago (criticism): PR24, 23

Attenberg, Jami
A Feast of Snakes, by Harry Crews (recommendation): PR15, 90

Audsley, Sarah
The Pond + Origins & Forms: Eight Sijos (poetry): PR38, 215

Ausherman, Stephen
Conquest, Tourism, and Eternal Canadian Rapture (nonfiction): PR15, 93

Awad, Mona
The Girl I Hate (fiction): PR27, 125

Axelrod, Howard
John Banville’s Eclipse (recommendation): PR29, 149

Ayala, Michael
Photographs (art): PR6, 66

Aydt, Rachel
Big Mouth (fiction): PR37, 45