Magazine
A Public Space
No. 15
Maud Casey on Albert Dadas and the will to wonder; Leslie Jamison on the West Memphis Three; Joel Rotenberg translates Ernst Weiss; Martha Cooley reads Berlin Alexanderplatz; Jeroen Toirkens’s Nomads; stories by Mary-Beth Hughes, Tania James, and Sarah A. Strickley; poems by Timothy Donnelly, Jorie Graham, Matthea Harvey, W. G. Sebald, and others.
Table of Contents
Feature
A Stubborn Desire
The way of Saint James, a pilgrimage route culminating at the tomb of Saint James in Santiago Compostela in Spain, passed through Bordeaux during the Middle Ages.
Poetry
Libraries & Museums
Their hush and their order and their devotion to the past are a deep comfort to us.
Poetry
Crystalline Structure, Threat of Weather
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, a founder / of the first American school for / the deaf, Wallace Stevens, and Samuel Colt—three buried in Cedar Hill / Cemetery, Hartford, Connecticut.
Poetry
Three Poems
like Kafka’s essay / on Goethe’s abominable / nature
Translated from the German by Iain Galbraith
Poetry
The Bird That Begins It
In the world-famous night which is already flinging away bits of dark
Feature
Praise Song for Berlin Alexanderplatz
Games I play while riding the subway: Check out the passengers, decide which are adulterers.
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