... 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 Lulu Miller , Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life ( New York : Simon and Schuster , 2020 ), 228 pp. oren.harman@gmail.com ...

... fertile period in poetry, with many talented poets and many potential directions that did not develop into dominant trends. Because literary history almost inevitably looks at dominant directions, it tends to pass over not only individual poets who don't quite fit, but also poetic kinds and directions...

... thinking about that. actress: And still you haven’t answered the question. actor: On purpose. actress: I don’t get it. actor: Why are you asking me that? 222 actress: I thought you’d know. actor: I thought you knew. silence actress: I don’t know...

... — a thinker. Slava, ofcourse;heisathinker, buthehasawife. Nita: or thisotherasshole? Then what?Doyoulove Viacheslav, Ira: the face, theeyes, theears. You’re nuts!Justlook Nita: Don’t know, tomehelooksdumbasanelephant. Ira Here’s aphoto. They’re eloquent;theylatentlyimplydeepintellect. I’ll...

... in order even to begin work. I have a special need for relativity because I work on events close to the Big Bang. You don’t need relativity, too? He (sighing): Yes, of course, but relativism is one of the victims of this war; it’s a refugee. For you, the word means relativity. But in the humanities...

... —  the addressee of my lettergrams might be pleased to call it love. People don’t go to Kyoto or Venice. The world happens in out of the way places Just mind you don’t leave any tracks. Common Knowledge 12:3 DOI 10.1215/0961754X-2006-010 © Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt...

..., as they say in fairy tales, the great dragon Zmei Gorynich lived here beside the Puchai River. The stench in these places drives away the most committed misanthropes and even one type of philanthrope—that is, perverts. It sounds dumb, but the stench is cleansing. I don't know where it comes from. After...

... K N O w l E D g e 478 A NIGHT IN THE CORTEZ’ CAMP Tenochtitlan tomorrow.fall will I’m telling you Doesn’t it exhaust the topic? I would have pulled it down long ago. Brothers! Don’t...

... renounced his avant-garde enthusiasms and antiauthoritarian modernism of the 1920s. Furthermore, he added, “I am not religious. I don't have the gift. It's like a musical ear: either one has it, or not.” So, what sort of ear did Shalamov have, what did he hear? First, that unfreedom and deprivation over...

... TV Belgian that in like back, straight nicely. very It buckled foil. bought apractice we and open, tobe sure be would they so expressly don’t street, rememberwhich my own: we went again to the sports shop on the Boulevard, at the corner of I practice lunging without a weapon...

... on top twisted shut like a woman's legs. Like what?? If that's my mind, I don't want it! GUIDED MEDITATION Picture small fish nibbling at your aches and pains— tasty morsels!         * Imagine moments replicating several hazy trees. Imagine...

... that chatter. I don't follow. Or perhaps we could exchange roles. What are you talking about now? Are you out of your mind, Hallux? What you ought to be doing is switching professions. Come to think about it, maybe I should do the same. In The Original of Laura he returns to the thorny...

... of fire and guilt they laugh over the ravine of this shameful feast they don't feel the ground shifting beneath them in a long echo's noose tolls the hollow heart For Oleh Kotsarev we shall inter civilization in the woods so that the waking sun hears the green record of sunrise...

... day day, another another be would there wasn’t sure even another day, since you don’t have bullfighters here.”Although, atthat moment, I ish, then immediately translated them.to “I’ll explain you what exactly it means dialogue: a was this that of pretending way a also...

... think ontology is relative, translation indeterminate, and that words and sentences have no meaning — you don’t really understand what he’s saying. If you understand it, you see it’s crazy, despite Quine’s elegant arguments. Putnam says Richard Rorty is the only philosopher he knows who both...

..., ‘Don't say that! You don't know what you're saying to me! You're driving me to desperation. Leave me in peace!’” 14 The next day, Jonna reveals the reason for her anxiety: she has been awarded a studio in Paris for a year, “meant for her use alone.” 15 And although Jonna does not say it, Mari...

...Darrel Alejandro Holnes POETRY AND FICTION THE CHILIAD Darrel Alejandro Holnes Kyrie I It’s 2005 and the pope is dead. You don’t care but I do because I’m Catholic. Bush has just been re-­elected. I am new to Texas...

... I don’t have a moment, of course, any more than you do. But one would rather...

... that Joe was twelve years younger than me. There was a time, a few years before, when I had felt superior to my mother's marriage to a younger man, but falling in love had humbled me, and besides, by now—I was forty-seven—who could afford to be aloof? “I just don't want to embarrass him by looking a lot...