Vertigo

Only one is a wanderer.
And when she was sad she'd go into the street to be with people.
Two together are always going somewhere. They lie down beneath cypress,
next to a bird. I imagine a sky. It fans her mountains
and waves. She'd left some small town
where they used to make tires.
Stories are made out of stairwells
and rope. I'd been
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—Ralph Angel, from Exceptions and Melancholies: Poems 1986-2006

Lia Purpura is interviewed in Orion.

The Lambda Literary Foundation has awarded Brian Leung its Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize.

T Fleischmann's Syzygy, Beauty is reviewed in the Star Tribune.

07-08-2012
The Children

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The Children
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