No, Brother, I Did Not See

by Thomas Bates

Originally published on November 1, 2001

When we were small and lived in that blue house with the hyacinths wrapped around it, kissing me you said, When we are old, we will be afraid to die. Then the cowbird, who lately had come to rest on our roof hot afternoons like some Southwestern gargoyle, set himself to cawing. I don’t know [...]

Impostors

by Arthur Saltzman

Originally published on November 1, 2001

The art is in the execution. Three or four players are optimal, but in a pinch, two are sufficient to perpetrate the game. The key here, as in so many things, is to play swiftly and assuredly, for expertise is its own enchantment and disguise. Cards should be snapped confidently down and winning tricks, finesses, [...]

Fawn Ghazal

by C. J. Sage

Originally published on November 1, 2001

Inside a snowy blanket which put the trees to sleep, I heard a fawn. Out past the window’s ice coat in the morning, I found a sleeping fawn. There are men in yellow kitchens watching hands of brown-eyed women while men in orange jackets dream in secret, of capturing a fawn. When I was younger [...]

Salamanders on the North Border Road

by Elisha Porat

Originally published on November 1, 2001

Two salamanders are crossing the North Border Road. Sluggish and indifferent, they Creep under the borderline barbed wire. I stop The patrol. Above the ravines and fields, Silence suddenly drops for a moment: we watch Their orange backs, a poison color, their tails Striped black, and their evil aura darkens The morning light. I feel [...]

Free Speech and the End of the World

by Douglas Lain

Originally published on November 1, 2001

Mario Savio is dead at the age of fifty-three. Winded while moving his furniture into his new home in San Francisco, he sat down at the kitchen table and had a massive coronary. His wife told us at the funeral that he had seemed embarrassed by his weakness as he watched his colleagues and friends [...]

Loving Pedro Infante

reviewed by Emily Banner

Originally published on November 1, 2001

Loving Pedro Infante tells the story of Teresina Ávila, or Tere, a divorced thirtysomething teachers’ aide in Cabritoville, New Mexico. Tere has a mother who’s always there for her, a best friend she can tell anything to, a string of romantic failures, and mixed feelings about her job, but what really defines her life is [...]

The Poetry of Arab Women

reviewed by Rachel Barenblat

Originally published on November 1, 2001

The Poetry of Arab Women, edited by Nathalie Handal, came across my desk some months ago. I was impressed; it’s an extremely thorough collection, featuring a wide range of Arab women poets from around the world. I thought it was an good book, and figured I’d review it sometime soon, and basically let it sit [...]

Sailing Alone Around the Room

reviewed by John Hammond

Originally published on November 1, 2001

The publication of Billy Collins’ new and selected poems comes only about a month after his appointment as Poet Laureate of the U.S. for 2001-2002 and a little more than a decade since the publication of The Apple That Astonished Paris, the first of four books represented here along with 20 new and uncollected poems. [...]

Interview with Dan Zanes

interviewed by Misha Angrist

Originally published on November 1, 2001

Dan Zanes grew up in New Hampshire, a self-described “Yankee WASP.” In 1981, at the age of 20, he moved to Boston and, with bassist Tom Lloyd, founded the Del Fuegos, a band that also featured brother Warren Zanes on guitar and Woody Geissman on drums. From humble beginnings (“We could barely tune our guitars,” [...]

Hypotheses

by Ted Warnell

Originally published on November 1, 2001

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