Russia

Table of Contents

General Submissions

• • • • Since You Asked About My Process, Richard Schiffman
      • Cell Time, Christopher Presfield
      • When Gabriel García Márquez played tennis, Roger Sedarat
      • The Castle of Otranto, Maura Stanton
      • Family Portrait, Suzanne O’Connell
      • There is a Zbava,  Nicole Yurcaba
      • At the driveway guitar sale, Buff Whitman-Bradley
      • Sex, Tom Chandler
      • Old Guy:  Super Hero, William Trowbridge
      • On Going Deaf, Betty Littleton
      • The Power Plant, Peter Arvan Manos
      • Goddamnitalltohell, Diana Pinckney
      • My Brother Sings, Diana Pinckney
      • Intruder, Marilyn Talal
      • W Word, James Valvis
      • Sophie and the German Girls, James Valvis
      • First Kiss, Roseann Raniere
      • Gone Missing, Ann Robinson
      • Hangman, Heidi Wallis
      • Not Much Different, Lee Varon
      • Chicken, Lee Varon
      • Letter from the Desert Museum, Donna Pucciani
      • This Damn Magnolia, Doris Lynch
      • Spring Evening, Tom Raithel

International Feature:  Russia, edited by Alex Cigale

• • • • Two Pictures, Shamshad Abdullaev
      • Without Title, Shamshad Abdullaev
      • from To See Things with Clarity, Anastasia Afanasyeva
      • After Stevenson, Mikhail Aizenberg
      • The Temple with an Arcade, Maxim Amelin
      • “Homer’s Been Shredded to Quotes,” Maxim Amelin
      • In August the Stars Shoot Through the Night Air, Maxim Amelin
      • In central Russia tornadoes are so rare, Nikolai Baitov
      • Sweetness of the sweetest slumber, Polina Barskova
      • The Snowman, Gregory Dashevsky
      • Quarentine, Gregory Dashevsky
      • From Far Off, Regina Derieva
      • The beetle, raised up the by ghostly waves, Mikhail Eremin
      • To A. Eremin, Mikhail Eremin
      • Hiring Freeze, takeover, foretaste of profits, Mikhail Eremin
      • Historian, Vladimir Gandelsman
      • O the river grows wild grows black grows night, Vladimir Gandelsman
      • You say it creaks? Well, take the paper, Sergey Gandlevsky
      • A Text of Appalling Strength, Dina Gatina
      • colonies of coral, building up their framework, Marianna Geide
      • They used to kill…, Pavel Goldin
      • Mani the prophet was starved, Pavel Goldin
      • A handgun in your throat, Linore Goralik
      • Sarin, Soman, Tobun, Andrey Gritsman
      • Walking Through the Old Arbat Alone, Anna Halberstadt
      • In the central terminal, Igor Irtenev
      • Observation, Igor Irtenev
      • from Venetian Triptych,  Alexander Kabanov
      • You’ll turn an old gramophone on, Alexander Kabanov
      • This goblin, tubercular light, Alexander Kabanov
      • Route (A Ballad-Parable), Inna Kabysh
      • Mother Throws Milk Bottles, Ilya Kaminsky
      • A beam gone crazy in an unwashed window, Katia Kapovich
      • When winter comes and Cambridge is snowed under, Katia Kapovich
      • Synopsis, Timur Kibirov
      • The Ethnic Question, Timur Kibirov
      • Ceramic Milk Pails, Konstantin Kravtsov
      • On the Road to Galilee, Konstantin Kravtsov
      • Arkadii was a god, Dmitry Kuzmin
      • I now, the Mongol yoke, the years of famine, Lev Loseff
      • I am hollow and my ways are dead, Roald Mandelstam
      • The Room.  January 1^st, Irina Mashinski
      • The End of a Myth, Irina Mashinski
      • This time of year…, Vadim Mesyats
      • The biggest compliment, Vadim Mesyats
      • Postcards in a Bottle, Dennis Novikov
      • The Village, Alexey Porvin
      • As a messenger pigeon fleeing the palm, Alexey Purin
      • The striking clock is sinister and bitter, Leonid Schwab
      • About books, Tatiana Shcherbina
      • Claudia, guess who’s fallen in love with me—a gladiator!, Elena Shvarts
      • To a slave girl, Elena Shvarts
      • Cynthia, Elena Shvarts
      • The Temptation of St. Marcuse, Alexander Skidan
      • Checkroom, Yevgeny Slivkin
      • I’ll ask my helper Charon:  he will carry, Yevgeny Slivkin
      • from 20 Sonnets to M, Maria Stepanova
      • Is it God or a squirrel amuck in the tree, Maria Stepanova
      • Superorganic consciousness, Fedor Svarovsky
      • from Hexagrams, Andrey Tavrov
      • Catullus, Andrey Tavrov
      • Château Chaumont, Marina Temkina
      • Music in the heart gnawing, Aigerim Tazhi
      • Someone among the branches twitches, frightened by a cough, Aigerim Tazhi
      • Earthy, dying on the eve of winter, Aigerim Tazhi
      • the mirror of theseus, Alexei Tsvetkov
      • The most memorable rain?, Alexander Ulanov
      • There is no path to the Brahman, none, Amarsana Ulzytuev
      • Eddies Funeral, Amarsana Ulzytuev
      • The night is swarming with the decaying Gypsies, Oleg Yuriev
      • the scar of which we know from the outset, Lida Yusupova
      • Alone, you linger at the forest’s edge, Ivan Zhdanov
      • Pious angel…, Ivan Zhdanov
      • A red drop in snow, Gennadii Gor
      • No heart beats in these houses, Gennadii Gor
      • Death, Vladimir Sterligov
      • Dinnertime Ode to Lamprey, Pavel Zaltsman
      • The Word, Arseny Tarkovsky
      • The Pushkin Monument, Joseph Brodsky