The Common: Issue #8

by Jennifer Acker

Contents
"The Common Statement" by Jennifer Acker

Fiction
"Reichelt's Parachute" by Ian Bassingthwaighte
"Clouds" by Antonio Tabucchi (Translated by Martha Cooley and Antonio Romani)
"Stewardship" by Edmund Sandoval
"Dutch Joe" by Terese Svoboda
"Caleta Beach" by Nani Power
"Am I Speaking to Hyman Roth?" by Antonio Monda
"The Dying of the Deads" by Jeff Jackson

Art
"Our Poor Perishable World" by Brian Sholis

Essays
"Death of the Farm Family" by Sarah Smarsh
"Talmudic Lesson: God's Smile" by Ilan Stavans
"Stepping Off" by Ralph Sneeden

Poetry
"Untitled" by Tadeusz Dabrowski
"The Well" by Tadesz Dabrowski
"Untitled" by Tadeusz Dabrowski (All translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones)
"Burden" by James Byrne
"Burial at Shanidar" by Elizabeth Hazen
"Song of Almeria" by John Poch
"Phylum" by Larissa Shmailo
"Heroin Chic" by Gerry Lafemina
"Caged Bird Society" by Gerry Lafemina
"Morning Salutation for Joe Brainard" by R. Zamora Linmark
"Homeward" by Robert Cording
"Yes or Know?" by Sylvie Durbec
"A Little Man" by Sylvie Durbec (Both translated by Denis Hirson)
"Wordsworth in Poughkeepsie" by Maceo J. Whitaker
"Bratislava" by Mary Jo Salter
"What But Dignity in the Vigil" by Stephen Haven
"Orderly Squads of Flowers in the Chaos of Existence" by Stephen Haven
"Shy Mother" by Jonathan Gerhardson
"Dear 2Pac" by Jonathan Moody
"Hiking South Mountain" by Cynthia Hogue
"Pareidolia" by R. A. Villanueva
"Epithalamion, Memorial Day" by R. A. Villaneuva
"Trouble on the Road Again" by Ishion Hutchinson
"Vers de Societe" by Ishion Hutchinson
"Starving the Mustangs" by Elizabeth Metzger
"Excoriating Ghosts" by Neil Shepard
"The Origamist" by Daniel Tobin

Paperback

Published October 1, 2014

About the author

Jennifer Acker is founder and editor in chief of The Common. Her short stories, essays, translations, and reviews have appeared in the Washington Post, Literary Hub, n+1, Guernica, The Yale Review, and Ploughshares, among other places. Acker has an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars and teaches writing and editing at Amherst College, where she directs the Literary Publishing Internship and organizes LitFest. She lives in western Massachusetts with her husband. The Limits of the World is her debut novel.