Winter/Spring 2013
Physicalities
Issue 35
Physicalities once again brings the stellar prose and poetry the discerning NDR reading audience has come to appreciate. Our new issue presents fiction and nonfiction by R.D. Skillings, Jay Neugeboren, Gloria Whelan, and Sondra Spatt Olsen, among others. NDR 35 also features an art installment by Jean Dibble. Readers will enjoy poetry by David Wagoner, Mike Smith, Liz Robbins, and Patricia Corbus, to list a few. Dive into Physicalities and prepare to be touched.
Here is our web extra from the print edition, Jean Dibble's The Life in Physics: 1996-Present.
R.D. Skillings
two stories
Only Bones
Liz Robbins
poetry
[the archer]; [the goat]
Luisa A. Igloria
poetry
Deny Everything, Deny Nothing; Measures
Ghalib, translated by M. Shahid Alam
poetry
Two Ghazals: Intimations of Ghalib
Gloria Whelan
story
Giving Orders to the Morning
Robert Bense
poetry
Shortly, King Lear
Jean Dibble
introduction; art
The Life In Physics, 1996 - Present
Dan Vera
poetry
Tower of Babel; Monarch Butterfly
Patricia Corbus
poetry
After the Swan
Doug Ramspeck
poetry
Chorus; Rumor
Kyla Sterling
poetry
The Third Hour; What the Birds Predicted;
This Is Wanderlust
Jarda Cervenka
story
The Woman Who Knew 1005 Males
David Wagoner
poetry
The End
Tomas Tranströmer (translated by Judith Moffett and Lars-Håkan Svensson)
letters
Selections from Tomas Tranströmer's Correspondence
with Robert Bly
Heather Treseler
review
Ghosts, Queries, and the Proleptic Elegy
Gerald Bruns
review
“The Plain Sense of Things”: Göran Printz-Påhlson's
Vernacular Modernism
Lars-Håkan Svensson
review
“Why is the June night so pale on the waves of Bothnia?”
Norman Minnick
review
Poetry Within the Pale
Editors Select
Kathleen Rooney, Jane Satterfield, Marina Tsvetaeva, Geraldine Monk, Gabrielle Robinson, Joan Frank, Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, Heidi Jon Schmidt, Fred Arroyo, Matthew Kirkpatrick, Craig Nova, Marshall Brooks, David Hoppe, Michael Perkins, Barbara Shoup, Dan Wakefield, Shawn Francis Peters
short reviews
Beverley Bie Brahic
poetry
Angel Food
Rebecca Hazelton
poetry
Fantastic Animals; The Heart Is an Indifferent Animal
Zane Kotker
story
How're You Feeling?
David Gordon
poetry
He Now Breathes
Donald Platt
poetry
Morning Hymn Set to the Old Tune of the Surf That Has No Ending
William Archila
poetry
The Gravedigger's Archaeology; Self-Portrait as Hermes; At the Gold Room with Orpheus
Stephen Gibson
poetry
Susanna and the Elders
Jay Neugeboren
novella
Borneo
Stephen Allen
poetry
Length; Train, Memory
Sondra Spatt Olsen
story
A Pool of Chocolate Syrup
Mark Sullivan
poetry
To You, on the Train; Art Forms in Nature; Repurposing
Mike Smith
poetry
Zombie Coleridge; Zombie Percy; River Rocks
John Matthias
preface
At Large: Tomas Tranströmer’s Correspondence with Robert Bly
Norman Finkelstein
review
The Renewing of the Hours
Henry Weinfield
review
Two Friends
John Peck
review
Clive Wilmer Among the Builders
Kevin T. O'Connor
review
What An Essay Can Be
Contributor Notes