Issue 142
Summer & Fall 2012
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You are currently looking at the fifth issue of TriQuarterly Online, and it's a good one. We're very excited to feature recordings of some of our poets reading their work. John Bresland was kind enough to curate another set of video essays for us, each one constructed around a single image. You'll also find the work of poets Ghalib and Yang Zi translated from Urdu and Chinese, respectively, and we're proud to host three new poems from Sharon Olds. We have fresh creative nonfiction from the likes of Sven Birkerts, Monica Berlin, and Ander Monson, who also sends photos. Finally, this issue's fiction includes astronauts, Keats, and X-Men, among other things (but what else could you want, really?). We truly hope you enjoy this issue as much as we do. Send praise and grumblings to triquarterlyonline@northwestern.edu. --L.P.
Managing Editor: Lydia Pudzianowski
Faculty Advisor: Alice George
Literary Editor: S.L. Wisenberg
Director of Planning: Reginald Gibbons
Media Architect: Harlan Wallach
Technical Advisor: Alex Miner
Social Media Editor: Ankur Thakkar
Copy Editor: Ruth Goring
Graduate Fellow: Ben Schacht
Book Review Editor: Karen Zemanick
Assistant Book Review Editor: Leigh Arber
Chapbook Review Editor: Anthony Opal
Fiction Editors: Matt Carmichael, Cathy Gao, Carrie Muehle, Ankur Thakkar, Stephanie Tran
Nonfiction Editor: Sarah Hollenbeck
Poetry Editor: Lana Rakhman
Assistant Poetry Editor: Virginia Smith
Staff: Rebecca Bald, Cathy Beres, Michelle Cabral, Patrick Allen Carberry, Bonnie Cauble, Jen Companik, Rachel Curry, Aaron DeLee, Jesse Eagle, Vincent Francone, Andrew Galligan, Barbara Ghoshal, Yliana Gonzalez, Eric Grawe, Betsy Haberl, Ish Harris-Wolff, Noelle Havens, Elizabeth Herbert, Gretchen Kalwinski, Nath Jones, Jen Lawrence, Joyce Lee, Eldad Malamuth, Carrie Muehle, Tien (Mimi) Nguyen, Amber Peckham, Cory Phare, C. Russell Price, Jenna Rabideaux, Nate Renie, Mark Rentfro, Ross Ritchell, Paula Root, Dan Schuld, Michi Smith, Megan Marie Sullivan, Adam Talaski, Myra Thompson, Alisa Ungar-Sargon
In Light of Darkness
Whenever I pass the Restaurant Sarajevo in the 2700 block of West Lawrence in Chicago I think of two things. First, I recall the summer evening several years ago when I observed a wedding party standing on the sidewalk outside the restaurant.
Los Huevos del Señor
I wanted to get hit by a car.
I’d heard about drunk, suicidal types running out onto the freeway and putting their heads through some poor, unsuspecting bastard’s windshield, turning their bones to powder against the hood in a gory scene of unholy carnage. That wasn’t for me.
Your Small Towns of Adult Sorrow & Melancholy
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Because when my friend calls from Montana he’s walking the aisles of a 24-hour Walmart. Because when I ask him to tell me about the big sky I realize he’s standing in front of the same thing he could see here, could see anywhere.
See You Next Week
The storm of passion once over, he would have given worlds, had he possessed them, to have restored to her that innocence of which his unbridled lust had deprived her. Of the desires which had urged him to the crime, no trace was left in his bosom.
How to Read a Book
“Everyone, I think, will admit that a book is a work of art.” —Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book,
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“Not this one” —marginalia
Telescope
I read recently how scientists had run an experiment that proved at last that some particle could move faster than the speed of light, it was all over the Internet, and the next day at work my colleague, who actually can think about these things in intelligent ways, explained with great animation how this opened the way for science to be thinking about parallel universes, and his excitement touched me for a few minutes, I caught some glimmer of how the one thing related to the other.