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An Excerpt from Distance Sickness
Jenny Xie
‘To relive is the snarl of description, worked over repeatedly in the mind’
A poem by Jenny Xie.
But the Heart in a Sense Is Far from Me Floating Out There
Peter Gizzi
‘It’s right to extract bone from the afterlife’
A poem by Peter Gizzi.
Having Recently Escaped from the Maws of a Deathly Life, I Am Ready to Begin the Year Anew
Sandra Cisneros
‘Life is not worth living / without salami.’
A poem by Sandra Cisneros.
It’s Been Evening all day Long
Daniel Khalastchi
‘Just as blank I sink the bank beneath / my grief of never having money.’
A poem by Daniel Khalastchi.
Three Poems
Victoria Adukwei Bulley
‘create a national holiday in your namelessness, in my head.’
Poems from the author’s debut collection Quiet.
Two Poems
Collin Callahan
‘He twists biblical spliffs. / Curtains warble in the television light.’ Two poems by Collin Callahan.
Three Poems
Christopher Soto
‘Instantaneous / Pleasure takes too // Long’
Poetry from Christopher Soto’s collection Diaries of a Terrorist.
Two Poems
Akwaeke Emezi
‘joseph uncle is ghost-quiet / the kind of man you can’t scream at’
Two poems by the author of Dear Senthuran.
Blue Room, Fake Blue Veins
Peter Scalpello
‘[left home rented a room / spinning with mould] it almost turned me / straight.’ A new poem by Peter Scalpello.
Beautiful Short Loser
Ocean Vuong
‘For as long as I can remember my body was a small town nightmare.’
A new poem by Ocean Vuong.
