When Stevens says "Ramon Fernandez, tell me if you know,"
He is alone. The imagined audience becomes the boundary
Against which the singer attempts to identify the self,
But the song never reaches that unfortunate boundary.
Instead the song continuously expands the boundary,
And in this expanding universe, the singer, as self,
Becomes infinitely smaller. And in that smallness is the origin
Of reality. And from that reduction, the singer is saved.
Graham Foust — Number
One Hit Song
J. Johnson — Catch
As Catch Can
J. Zachary Kimball
— 466 Steps In Trying
Alex Lemon — Mugging
Ben Lerner — Didactic
Elegy
Christina Mengert
— Two Poems
Allan Peterson —
Out Of The Whole Azalea
Marvyn Petrucci —
The Cap
Emöke Pulay — A Story
Is Lurking Under Your Pillow
Marcus Slease — From
Conversations With Kafka
Tony Tost — Disarm
The Settlers
Tim Van Dyke — From
The Wolving Ritual
Jonah Winter — Two
Poems
Franz Wright — Four
Poems