Issue 139
Winter & Spring 2011
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Welcome to the second issue of TriQuarterly Online. In the months since we launched, we've attracted an enthusiastic audience from around the world, and can boast visitors from over a hundred countries on six continents. In this and every issue you'll find outstanding new fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry, plus book reviews, interviews, commentary, and a lively blog. The electronic format also allows us to present work from TriQuarterly's extensive print archives. We look forward to receiving your comments and responses at triquarterlyonline@northwestern.edu.
Managing Editor: Dana Norris
Faculty Advisor: Susan Harris
Technical Advisor: Matt Wood
Copy Editor: Ruth Goring
Graduate Fellow: Ari Bookman
Book Review Editor: Charles Berret
Fiction Editors:Danielle Burhop, Tien (Mimi) Nguyen, Ankur Thakkar, Stephanie Tran
Nonfiction Editors:Charles Berret, Sarah Hollenbeck, Dana Norris
Poetry Editors: Aaron DeLee, Lana Rakhman
Staff: Emily Ayshford, Alex Bergstrom, Allison Bletnitsky, Alana Buckbee, Jen Companik, Katherine Defliese, Schuyler Dickson, Ann Gadzikowski, Cathy Gao, Barbara Ghoshal, Dane Hamann, Noelle Havens, Tedd Hawks, Beth Herbert, Sarah Jenkins, Sarah Kalsbeek, Jen Lawrence, Kevin McFarland, Erin McNulty, Sambath Meas, Ashley Mohney, Hana Park, C. Russell Price, Vanessa Bates Ramirez, Paula Root, Misty Shelley, Virginia Smith, Leah Struass, Megan Sullivan, Matt Tzuker, Elizabeth Winkowski, Karen Zemanick
The Portulan Principle
portulan: a maritime map that shows coastlines marked with safe harbors
The map I am making is obsolete, a nautical map from 1573, faded, tea-stained yellow, discolored in places by what looks like the heat of too-close candle flame. The paper is moth wing. The ink sea mist and foam.
Never Enough
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There is never enough. There is always just barely enough.
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Both conditions have always felt true.
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I began working at age sixteen, a summer job as a salesclerk: a women’s dress shop in a sleepy shopping center in Roseville, California.
Of Two Stranger Hands: A Reading of William Goyen’s “Precious Door”
Mr. de Persia of two hands, lighthanded and heavyhanded, one hand fleet and light, the other heavy and dark, wizard repairman of two stranger hands, you were just short of being a god. So get up and come back from wherever you, too, have vanished to.