Summer/Fall 2015
Layers
Issue 40
Layers offers an excellent array of prose and poetry to delight dedicated fans of Notre Dame Review. This issue features poetry and translations by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, poetry by Rebecca Foust, Stephen Massimilla and D.E. Steward, as well as a memoir by Peter Michelson, a short story by James D. Redwood, and fiction from Dave Matlin. Investigate every level of superb writing and expression within the pages of this issue.
Here is our web extra from the print edition, Edward Dahlberg: Letters to a Young Would-Be Writer with annotations by William O'Rourke.
Janey Skeer
cover art
Indigo (front cover); Steel & Clay Canyon (back cover)
Denver Art Museum Magazine article
Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
poetry
Gesture with Hands Tied; Portrait and Condition
Jacobo Fijman translated by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
poetry
Paraguayan; Sunsets; Requiem
Javier Zamora
poetry
ARENA; Te Toca
Leon Salvatierra translated by Javier O. Huerta
poetry
Exit NY; Leon Salvatierra Was Born the Day They Killed Somoza
Mark Brazaitis
story
Fifty
Rebecca Foust
poetry
Meet Pilgrim; Why Pilgrim?; The Prime Mover; Mayberry 94957; The News du Jour; (The New) Eugenics; Je Est un Autre; Bane Laid on Behalf of the Latest Late Wife
Angela Leighton
poetry
Lines at Break of Day; Remembering Chopin at Valdemossa; Pomegranate
David Matlin
story
Not One Horse Left to Steal
Stephen Massimilla
poetry
Intermezzo
Tatiana Daniliyants translated by Katherine E. Young
poetry
[From the book Red Noise]: Several Dedications of the Year; Simply to Remind You; [From the book Four Hearts / Serdtsa Chetyrëkh: Serbia]: Sleepless Conversation (Incantation); XXX
Three Stills from "Anima Russa" ("Russian Soul")
Three Stills from "Venice Afloat"
Lars-Håkan Svensson
poetry
Elizabethan Poet; Gothic Short Story Writer
Jarda Cervenka
short stories
Three Stories: The Visit to La Casa Fitcarraldo; For the Love of Trilobite; The End of the Party
Lidia Kosk translated by Danuta E. Kosk-Kosicka
poetry
Like Rivers Going to the Sea
J.D. Garrick
review-essay
Eliot by the Pound: Two Big Books Worth the Weight
Kevin Hart
review-essay
A Contemporary Master
Igor Webb
review-essay
Collecting John Silkin
Peter Twal
short review
Contemplative Man
Editors Select
Ian Bostridge, Roy Fisher, Ciaran Carson, John Tranter, Lera Auerbach, Paul Pines, John Wilkinson, Michael Martone, Bryan Furuness, Michael Perkins, Harry Mark Petrakis, Mark Brazaitis
short reviews
James D. Redwood
story
When the War Ended
Nayelly Barrios
poetry
Portrait of My Sister Sitting on a Headstone; Fading Portrait of My Mother and Me in a Blueberry Field
Amina Gautier
story
Breathe
Lauren Espinoza
poetry
Rosa Espinoza—Abram, Texas; Amancio Jesús
Elizabeth Acevedo
poetry
Conversations; Paint Me
Peter Michelson
memoir
How I Dodged the Draft and Learned to Lick the Chinese Reds
Māris Čaklais translated by Inara Cedrins
poetry
Two Monologues; Freedom Went Out to the Boulevard; Murders; The Lover Returns to the Scene of the Crime; Scythe in the Apple Tree; Ars Poetica
Edited by Orlando Ricardo Menes
poetry supplement
PINTURA : PALABRA (A Section on Ekphrastic Poetry)
Silvia Curbelo
poetry
El Patio de Mi Casa; Joyride in Blue
Mia Leonin
poetry
After Carmen Herrera's Blanco y Verde
Roy G. Guzmán
poetry
Borderland Pica: Blender; Tres Rostros Del Fuego: After Luis Jiménez's Man on Fire (1969)
Adrian Castro
poetry
The Body at the End of Ineffable; Father Above, Mother Below, The Hanging Tree
Rita Maria Martinez
poetry
Aura y Candelilla
Alexandra Lytton Regalado
poetry
Rip the Stitches; El Chandelier
Caridad Moro
poetry
Unpacking the Suitcase
Elisa Albo
poetry
California Hang Tree
Edward Dahlberg with annotations by William O'Rourke
letters
Edward Dahlberg: Letters to a Young Would-Be Writer
Edward Dahlberg interview with Charles DeFanti (12/72 and 1/73), tape 1
Edward Dahlberg interview with Charles DeFanti (12/72 and 1/73), tape 2
Edward Dahlberg interview with Charles DeFanti (12/72 and 1/73), tape 3
Matthew Roberson
story
VR
D.E. Steward
poetry
Maigo
Gëzim Hajdari translated by Sarah Stickney
poetry
Three Poems
John Matthias
essay
At Large: The Poet's Story
Robert Archambeau
review-essay
Poetry Warrior: Robert Creeley in His Letters
Kevin O'Connor
review-essay
A Geography of Pain
Henry Weinfield
review-essay
Dark Illuminations