Conjunctions #48, Faces of Desire

Conjunctions #48

by Bradford Morrow (Editor), Mary Caponegro, Chinua Achebe (Editor)

Magazine. Essays. Fiction. Poetry. Edited by Bradford Morrow. Published in the Spring and Fall of each year by Bard College. The forty-eighth issue of CONJUNCTIONS celebrates that yearning which bends the soul out of its original shape-desire-in all its forms, all its hostile and gentle multiplicities. Featuring the work of Mary Gaitskill, H.C. Carrillo, Joyce Carol Oates, David Shields, Anne Tardos, Robert Kelly, Elizabeth Hand, Aimee Bender, Robert Olen Butler, Cole Swensen, Shena McAuliffe, Luc Sante, Devin Magee, Mary Caponegro, Reginald Shepherd, John D'Agata, Siri Hustvedt, Johnathan Lethem, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Will Self, Eleni Sikelianos, Lewis Warsh, Michael White, Rikki Ducornet, Andrew Mossin, Mei-me-Burssenbrugge, Paul West, Susan Steinberg, Donald Revell, Rebecca Seiferle, Tova Reich, Juliana Leslie, S.G. Miller, Brian Evanson, Carol Maso, and Frederic Tuten.

Genres: Poetry

409 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2007

About the author

Bradford Morrow has lived for the past thirty years in New York City and rural upstate New York, though he grew up in Colorado and lived and worked in a variety of places in between. While in his mid-teens, he traveled through rural Honduras as a member of the Amigos de las Americas program, serving as a medical volunteer in the summer of 1967. The following year he was awarded an American Field Service scholarship to finish his last year of high school as a foreign exchange student at a Liceo Scientifico in Cuneo, Italy. In 1973, he took time off from studying at the University of Colorado to live in Paris for a year. After doing graduate work on a Danforth Fellowship at Yale University, he moved to Santa Barbara, California, to work as a rare book dealer. In 1981 he relocated to New York City to the literary journal Conjunctions, which he founded with the poet Kenneth Rexroth, and to write novels. He and his two cats divide their time between NYC and upstate New York.

Visit his website at www.bradfordmorrow.com.

Reviews

[Mike Zinn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Conjunctions is one of my favorite literary publications, but I have so much to read that these often get set aside. They shouldn't. This one featured many of my favorite writers including Elizabeth Hand, Rikki Ducornet and Jonathan Lethem. It is all good - as always. I'd spend more time on reviewing this, but I have a whole bunch more Conjunctions to get caught up on. I keep saying I should quit subscribing since my to-read pile is too big - but I just can't pass up the great feast that each issue brings.