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fall2009

Poetry by Emmanuelle Merle (tr. Peter Brown), Elizabeth Murphy, and Rodney Wittwer

EMMANUEL MERLE (TRANSLATION BY PETER BROWN) Atomic City A plain amid the Rockies, a valley so large You might forget your name, that being born here Gives you a secret identity you may only reveal In Craters of the Moon, who remember in their blackened Corridors that they are the pores of the volcano Earth.

fall2009

The Straddler Review: Blending me Softly

In 2008, a group of scientists and researchers led by Dr. Brian J.F. Wong of the Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) attempted to catch a rainbow in their hands.

BY    Editor
October 14, 2023
springsummer2010

From the Editors: Ingenious Fakes

“[T]he high points of the exhibition were two dead gangsters,” writes Graham Greene in The Lawless Roads, about a hapless freak show he attends at the border between the United States and Mexico.

BY    Editor
October 14, 2023