The Best of Web del Sol

Here we present those fictions, poetry, and other material culled
from the Locus of Literary Art on the WWW. The following are con-
sidered to be timeless, ne plus ultra highlights from Web del Sol.

I should have had more books to my credit, I should have used, improved, invented other systems of expression, I should have constructed other edifices; there would have been, perhaps not other worlds but other creations, more varied aspects and a greater richness within the same creation. As soon as I shake off despair I feel the urge, the overwhelming desire to create. - Eugene Ionesco

I

Fiction Highlights

My Wife by Steve Koppman , from ZYZZYVA
The Invention of Memory by Ilan Stavans, from Web del Sol
Hidden Ball Inside a Song by Ben Marcus, from Web del Sol
Finding Natasha by Madison Smartt Bell, from Web del Sol
The Secret by Patrick Keppel, from The Literary Review
Nails in the Grass by Maria Gabriela Llansol, from The Literary Review
The Proper Levels of Vacuum by Michael Martone, from Web del Sol
In the Garden of the We-Owna Motel by J. Clark Hansbarger, from Web del Sol
The Trains Going to Antwerp by Herberto Helder, from The Literary Review

Poetry Highlights

Gadje by Michael Glaros, from ZYZZYVA
When Life Shifts and You Tread Air by Valerie Anthony, from Mudlark
Island of the Raped Women by Frances Driscoll, from Mudlark
Gradatim by LindaAnn Loschiavo, from Eclectic Literary Forum
In a Women's Spa by Judith Werner, from Eclectic Literary Forum
Mother and Daughter by Elisabeth Murawski, from The Literary Review
Ellipsis, Third or Fourth Dot, Depending by Stuart Dischell, from AGNI

II

Fiction Highlights

Five Stories by Diane Williams, from Conjunctions
Is Anybody Listening? by Dawn Raffel, from Conjunctions
Esprit de l'Elevator by Gary Lutz, from Web del Sol
Heiberg's Twitch by Robert Wexelblatt, from The Literary Review
What Did You Do Today by Jennifer Westmoreland, from ZYZZYVA
A Girl Needs Something of Her Own by Kristy Nielsen, from Web del Sol
Chapter Two: The Swallows' Nest by Miyamoto Teru, from The Literary Review
Job Eats Them Raw, with the Dogs: An Undoing by Brian Evenson, from Web del Sol

Poetry Highlights

&.. by Christopher Holvey, from Eclectic Literary Forum
Two-River Ledger by Khaled Mattawa, from Web del Sol
Island of the Raped Women by Frances Driscoll, from Mudlark

III

Fiction Highlights

Stung by Brian Evenson, from Web Del Sol
The Putti by Shelly Jackson, from Conjunctions
The Meat Garden by Craig Padawer, from Conjunctions
Self-Portraits by Marie Luise Kaschitz, from The Literary Review
Stone Daughter by Deborah Lee Wesselmann, from The Literary Review
The Evanescence of Marion le Goff by Brian Evenson, from Web Del Sol
The Food Costumes of Montana by Ben Marcus, from Web Del Sol
Three Short Fictions by Robley Wilson, from Web Del Sol
Future Tense by Michael Martone, from Web Del Sol
SMTWTFS by Gary Lutz, from Web Del Sol

Poetry Highlights

Prayer for Men by Erin Belieu, from Web Del Sol
General Italo Balbo by Khaled Mattawa, from Web Del Sol
The Sadness of Infidels by Erin Belieu, from Web Del Sol
Persephone's Confession by Cooper Esteban, from elimae
The Cave Dances, From The Chol Mayan, from AGNI
When Gloria Touches Herself by Kristy Nielsen, from Web Del Sol
Gloria Disappears With or Without You by Kristy Nielsen, from Web Del Sol
Cowboy Café, Sixty-Four Miles Ahead by Sara Berkeley, from Web Del Sol
A Sleeping Man Must be Awakened to be Killed by Erin Belieu, from Web Del Sol

Essay Highlights

Open Secrets: An Insider's Introduction to Allende's Chilie
by Carolyne Wright, from AGNI

IV

Fiction Highlights

His Sweater by Jessica Treat, from The Dominion Review
Come! Meet My Family by Paul Beckman, from Web Del Sol
Is Anybody Listening? by Dawn Raffel, from Conjunctions
Three Short Fictions by Walter Cummins, from Web Del Sol
The Death Trap by the Bikin River
by Ulla Lena Lundberg, from The Literary Review
In the Basement of the Psychoanalysis Museum
by Patrick Keppel, from Web Del Sol

Poetry Highlights

At Bryant's Grave by William Stafford, from Eclectic Liteary Forum
A Selection of Poems by S. K. Kelen, from The Literary Review
A Selection of Poems by Cecil Rajendra, from The Literary Review
Walking on Ice, Thinking of Rasputin
by S. C. Hahn, from The Dominion Review
The Politics of My Heart, (a Collection)
by William Slaughter, from Pleasure Boat Studio
Walt Whitman Encounters the Cosmos with the Cats Of New York
by Gail White, from Eclectic Literary Forum

Prose Poetry

This by Rosmarie Waldrop, from The Prose Poem
Guy Talk by Peter Johnson, from Web Del Sol
Alphabet Soup by Stuart Dybek, from The Prose Poem
Pretty Happy by Peter Johnson, from Web Del Sol
After the Weather by Mary A. Koncel, from The Prose Poem
Self Portrait (Kneeling) by Brian Johnson, from The Prose Poem
Theseus and Ariadne by Charles Simic, from The Prose Poem
Warning to the Reader by Robert Bly, from The Prose Poem
How Free She Is by Kristy Nielsen, from Web Del Sol

Essays and Interviews

An Interview With Allen Ginsberg
by Gloria Glickstein Brame, from Eclectic Literary Forum

V

The City of Zinder, Rivages Roses for Neils Bohr,
The Double's Complaint, Saturn Devouring One of His Children,
Woman Struck by Car Turns Into Nymphomaniac, and others.

VII

The Transphysical City, Sven Birkerts, Pussy--King of Pirates,
Ghost Image, Gish Jen, Stalking the UFO Meme, What Becomes Debris,
Martin Heidegger, Hayden Carruth, Chinua Achebe, Radio Free Alice,
Mirror Fugue Gas Money, The Slut, Seven Famous Old Men

VII

Why I Have to Marry the Pool Guy, The Dream of Anonymous Hands,
Cris Mazza, Winter Visits Against His Cell, Nin Andrews,
Eating Disorder, Story of a Shape; 31 METAFICTIONAL MEMORIES,
The Heimlich Home Page of Cyberspace, Guy Debord,
Thaumatrope, and The Duck Abandons Hollywood

VIII

Alcoholic Roxie, Odalisque, Five Poems From Late Night Radio,
Appetites, Who Hired Bill Moyers to Destroy American Poetry,
First Book of the Moon, 'Alala, Nora's Roar

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