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Bruce Bond
Pärt
Scar 21
Scar 22
Scar 26
Elena Karina Byrne
Francis Bacon Swallows the Head Whole,
Tony Oursler and His Dummy Watchers Live On
David Campos
Malware
The Singularity Keeps to Himself
Patricia Clark
Diptych with Window View & Hiroshige Print
How to Swallow the Snake
Kubota Garden
Emily Franklin
April in Wiltshire
Japan, Autumn
J.P. Grasser
The Blonde Heart of Wheat
Goshen, Virginia
Line Dance
Daniel Groves
More Fun . . .
Villanelle (avec Evel Knievel)
Ilya Kaminsky
As Soldiers March, Alfonso Covers the Boy’s Face with a Newspaper
Firing Squad
For His Wife
I, This Body
The Townspeople Circle the Boy’s Body
Cate Lycurgus
A Dream Dependent
Oksana Maksymchuk
Alla Through the Looking Glass
Suspicious Activity
Tyler Mills
Big Heart, Little Heart
Imaging
Rattlesnake
Tree
Dan O’Brien
Anger
Disaster
A Nurse’s Tattoo
On Symbols
Sebastián Hasani Páramo
After El Hombre by Rufino Tamayo
Portrait of Boy with Guitar
Self-Portrait with Thunder & Exhaustion
Susan Rich
First Carpool Retrospective
What I Learned from Bewitched
Steve Scafidi
The Bull Leaper’s Birthday
The Jewel
Austin Segrest
My Mother’s Morning Walks
G.C. Waldrep
Canto Selah
three from elegy for simone weil
Renault / Paris / 1935
Watch the Lame Beast Turn
Adelma (Harrisville, N.H.)
Merleau-Ponty
Daneen Wardrop
mind’s ear
mind’s eye
Nima Yushij
translated from Persian by Kaveh Bassiri
Raven