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Rereading Walden in a place that has itself become new, I felt the prospect of another beginning.
—David Rompf, “Once More to the Pond”
Can I reconstruct this day? Do I really want to?
—William Pierce, “Turning Fifty”
I stood before the bathroom mirror and removed the earrings, like a woman alone again after a disappointing date.
—Tracy Marx, “Zoom”
the nation state is a body it is the Russian doll / of bodies
— Camonghne Felix, “Do You Believe in Borders”
It is the season of fruitfulness. Clouds gather in the east all morning, and the rain pours in the afternoon.
— Kanchana Ugbabe, “Happy Lockdown”
Language, in which the question / where are you from sounds like
are you / from nothingness.
— Krystyna Dąbrowska translated by Karen Kovacik, “Hebrew”
HARVARD BOOK REVIEW
Philosopher of the Heartby Clare Carlisle
reviewed by Matt Hanson
The Bitchby Pilar Quintana, translated by Lisa Dillman
reviewed by Gabriel García Ochoa
Selected Worksby Yi Sang, edited by Don Mee Choi,
translated by Jack Jung, Sawako Nakayasu, Don Mee Choi, and Joyelle McSweeney
reviewed by Amanda Auerbach
translated by Jack Jung, Sawako Nakayasu, Don Mee Choi, and Joyelle McSweeney