Crazyhorse Number 69

 

Issue Number 69 Interview
with Robert and Penelope Creeley, and some of his final poems.

Fiction

Molly McNett’s Ruthie meets her Chloe with little sign language. Steven Schwartz’s father of a father repairs the window and takes his stand. Lorraine M. López’s falling goose sets the day in motion. John Tait: Ai! the curse of Monica Garza.

Poetry

The wickedness and grace, the phrases for fable of Vénus Khoury-Ghata translated by Marilyn Hacker, Tomaz Salamun, Christopher Davis, Cynthia Hogue, Dorothy Barresi, Albert Goldbarth, and Dean Young: “I’ll never understand the sublime / the possibility that it’s all someone’s / lying face down in the rain dream . . .”
 

Fiction
Lorraine M. López
The Landscape
Molly McNett
The Book of Signs
Steven Schwartz
The Theory of Everything
John Tait
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Reasons for Concern Regarding My Girlfriend of Five Days, Monica Garza
Interview


Keeping a Consistent Faith among the People:
Robert and Penelope Creeley in Conversation
Interviewed by Kate Cumiskey and Jason Frye
Poetry
Dorothy Barresi
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A Series of Earnest Offers, for the Raising of a Man from the Dead
Aubade with Eggs Breaking
Joelle Biele
To Katharine: At Eight Months
Robert Creeley
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Valentine for You
Again (Wrightsville Beach)
Echo
Christopher Davis
Muscle Beach
Chard deNiord
To a Grieving Daughter
Rescue
Katy Didden
Pleasure Milker
Rebecca Dunham
Phial: Elizabeth Bishop at Six
  Extremity
Matthew Gavin Frank
Gathering After the Spleen
John Gallaher
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Anecdote of the Field
Daily in the Birds of the Sky
Lost in our Creations, We No Longer Believe in Falling
Albert Goldbarth
The Voices
James Grinwis
Bug Land
Eva Heisler
Reading Emily Dickinson in Icelandic
Cynthia Hogue
The Empirical
Vénus Khoury-Ghata
four poems from the sequence “Interments”:
translated by Marilyn Hacker
"Sleeves rolled up"
"Her fire has no roof"
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"It’s in her book that she gathers stones to chase away the foxes"
"Dying makes you feel as if you’re running"
Eugenio Montejo
If I Return Again
translated by Kirk Nesset
My Lantern
Thomas Reiter
This Time
Tomaz Salamun
Fangs
translated by Joshua Beckman,
Thomas Kane, and the author
Dark Glasses
Flowers 
Charlie Smith
Bitterness
East Whitehall Street
What Sprung You
Todd Smith
Magda the Mule-Faced Girl at Seventeen
Appomattox County Fair
Eight
Michael Snediker
Bartleby
Dean Young
Exit Exam
Speck
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